What were some of your favorite childhood toys and games?

https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Marbles
The link is how to play marbles. Unlike the link, we mostly just drew an arbitrary size circle in the dirt. Another game, besides the ones described there, is Follow the Leader. You toss down two marbles and take turns trying to shoot and hit the other's marble. We always played for keeps. I always had a full pocket of marbles when walking around.

It's been so long, I forgot how the game was played.
I seem to remember having favorite shooting marbles.

Re cards, I, of course, played Go Fish. I also played Old Maid and War. And I played Casino with my grandmother. She always got the good ten.

I never heard of some of the games and toys mentioned here? Too old, or a city kid?

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Johnny may we cross your river.
Dodgeball
Punchball.
Whip

I remember playing with the tiny hot wheel cars.
I remember monopoly taking a very long time to finish the game.
The card games I played included Gin Rummy and Solitaire.
I think there was a card game called knuckles. I'm not sure if I remember much about that particular game.

And roller skates.

I'm not sure...my mother and father were city kids who moved to the suburbs of Baltimore around 1953....or so....the suburbs at that time might be considered country now...but we were baby boomers, played hopscotch, jump rope, double dutch, marbles and since I was the only girl in the block (and it wasn't city blocks) we climbed trees, played king of the hill, explored the houses under construction, climbed nasty pine trees (way too much stinky sap) and played Tarzan...and Daniel Boone/Davy Crocket......................yeah, I was and still am a girl, but I got a Davey Crocket Coon Skin Hat, a canteen, a useless rifle, powder gun and really
cool boots and skirt....I was the original king/queen of our very small 'block'.

I don't think I ever heard of stoop ball. I will have to google that one.
I use to love playing dodge ball.
I did play Candyland as a kid.
I did have a few yo-yos. I could never figure out how to do any of the yo-yo tricks.
I seem to remember having the butter fly shape yo-yo, the thin flat yo yo, and the standard shape yo-yo

I played Go Fish and the card game War.
I think War was the first card game I ever learn how to play.
I definitely heard of Old Maid, but I don't remember ever playing or learning the game.

Bolo bat

Kenner 6 Six Million Dollar Man Action Figure
TV Commercial 1975

We called that a 'batty ball'.

Play-Doh and Silly Putty...

Stoop ball is on google. One requirement is a stoop.

I never played dodge ball in the city. It was a summer camp game.

Every spring, a Duncan yo-yo master would come to my block and do a spectacular demonstration of yo-yo tricks. It was fun to watch, but could I do any of them. Not so much, but I expect that the purpose of the demo was to get kids to buy yo-yos. He succeeded.

I still have a few yo-yos. Sometimes I get them out and play a little for old times' sake. But mostly I kept them for my cats.

OMG, I forgot to mention that I played hide and seek, and, as a younger child, ring=around-the rosy and the farmer in the dell. Also London Bridge is falling down.

Tops. I used to try to spike my brother's top while it was spinning.

I used to like watching younger brothers play battleship. Both players always left ships off of the board, to keep from being hit.

Mr. Potato Head, cut-outs, coloring.

The basketball game called "H.O.R.S.E."

The basketball game called "21"

The basketball game called "Around the World"

We often played two hand tag football.