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Mon 23 Aug, 2010 11:35 am
Did you play any of these street games as a child? Add your own games if they are not on this list.
A
* Apple core
B
* Bad Egg
* Ball Tag
* Blind Man's Bluff
* British Bulldog
* Bullrush game
* Butts Up
C
* Capture the Flag
* Cat's cradle
* Chain tag
* Chinese jump rope
* Chinese whispers
* Chopsticks
* Cocky Olly
* Conkers
* Cops and robbers
D
* Dodge ball
* Duck Duck Goose aka Duck, Duck, Gray Duck
* Flashlight tag
F
* Follow the Leader
* Foot hockey
* Forty forty
* Four square
* Funnel ball
* Football
H
* Heads Up, Seven Up
* Hide and seek
* Hopscotch
* Hot Lava
* House
* Heads down thumbs up
I
* I spy
J
* Jump rope
* Jumpsies
K
* Keep Away
* Kickball
* Kick-to-kick
* Kick the can
* Kingey
* Kiss chase
L
* Leapfrog
M
* Manhunt
* Mary Mack
* Mother May I?
* Musical chairs
* Musical statues
N
* Ninja
P
* Paddle ball
* Paper football
* Postman's Knock, also known as knock knock ginger, knock-a-door run.
Q
* Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?
R
* Radio (game)
* Red Hands
* Red light, green light
* Red Rover
* Ringolevio
* Rock paper scissors
S
* Sardines
* Silent ball
* Simon Says
* Skipping stones aka Ducks and Drakes
* Sleeping lions
* Stapu
T
* Tag
* Telephone
* Thumb war
* Two balls and a wall
W
* What's the time, Mr Wolf? (Also, Mr. Fox)
* Wall Ball
Z
* Zip and bong
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
* Blind Man's Bluff
* Dodge ball
* Follow the Leader
* Hide and seek
* Hopscotch
* House - not sure, is that like building houses out of chairs and boxes and stuff?
* I spy
* Jump rope
* Mother May I?
* Musical chairs
* Red light, green light
* Red Rover
* Rock paper scissors
Roly Poly
* Simon Says
Statues
* Tag
There are a couple of them I remember the names of but don't remember a thing about - like I Spy and Simon Says.
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
we played a lot of war. (old unis and everything)
and raced home built moto-cross bicycles.
racing bicycles
hop scotch
yard football
yard baseball
building tree forts
shadow run (night time hide 'n seek)
hiking
roller blading/skating
potsy
snail
names
point
hit the penny
stoop ball
punch ball
stick ball
A my name is Alice
Double Dutch
Whip
Johnny may I cross your river
Giant step
Slug
Half-ball (kinda like stick ball)
Hits off the curb (stoop ball?)
Ten-and-run (vicious & vindictive)
Street football (Bill Cosby had a great routine about it)
Buck-buck (how many fingers up?)
@George,
George wrote:
Hits off the curb (stoop ball?)
If this involved throwing a ball in the exact spot where the sidewalk and "gutter" meet so that the ball doesn't bounce on it's way back, it's the same kinda game.
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote:
potsy
snail
names
point
hit the penny
stoop ball
punch ball
stick ball
A my name is Alice
Double Dutch
Never could do that.
Whip
I forgot about that...
Johnny may I cross your river
That might be Red Rover
Giant step
This might be Mother May I (take a giant step)
Slug
We also rollerskated (the old kind), bicycled, played baseball and basketball in the empty schoolyard. Climbed around abandoned construction maybe a mile away..
Played most of those. We also played a game where we used a broom handle as a bat and a small piece of broom handle (about 2" long) as the ball. We played very similar to a regular baseball game. I forget what we called it, but it was (in hindsight) very dangerous. I don't recall too many serious injuries.
I played many of these, but almost none of them on a street as I grew up in a lawned neighborhood.
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
i played foot ball and dodgeball and kick ball
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
simon says, wall ball, telephone
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