I can’t believe I didn’t…

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I can’t believe I didn’t see anyone here from Queensbridge projects! The neighborhood next to the 3 smoke stacks of Con-Edison in Queens. We had 6 parks right in our neighborhood. We moved to RI in 1973 (I was 12) and they never heard of Spaldeens, never played double-dutch, never saw a stickball bat and had never eaten a knish! I went to this website because I’m going to teach my 10 year old daughter’s girl scout group here in California how to play all the games I knew, thanks for all the help in remembering, especially SPUD, I forgot that one!

In my area (Halifax, Nova…

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In my area (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) we would find a bare patch of ground and dig a hole with the heel of our shoe. We’d stand back and take turns throwing marbles at the hole. After the initial salvo the closest to the hole got to shoot first. You wouldn’t pick the marble up but, instead, give it a push with your index finger. If you got the marble into the hole you got to shoot again. You shot until you missed then the next closest to the hole (from the initial throw) would take over. The person to sink the last marble would get all the marbles in the hole. There’s a basic flaw in this game, of course, in that if you trying a long shot and miss you’re leaving an easier shot for your opponent. This would lead to players intentionally missing or shooting the marble way off course. We must have made rules to counteract this but I don’t remember what they were. We called the white marbles with swirls of color “snot” marbles. We called the big marbles “doughboys.”

OMG, I played Concentration…

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OMG, I played Concentration too in Miami, FL. However, we started it off with “Hands down…” Could you please help me fill in the blank? It went something like this: Hands down [fill in the blank] Gonna get One a piece No a piece No hesitation No demonstrations Such as Names of Girls Starting with A or Such as Names of Cars

Could you help me fill in…

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Could you help me fill in the blanks or words to a game I learned in the 70’s? It goes something like this: Hands down [fill in the blank] Gonna get One a piece No a piece No hesitations No demonstrations Such as Names of [You pick a subject such as cars and each person takes a turn naming a car or cars depending on the number required to be named for that round]

Hey..52nd street.. I grew…

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Hey..52nd street.. I grew up in Guttenberg NJ (Hudson County) we also played ringalerio and box ball etc… Being a girl I played that game mentioned above called Russia.. I cannot for the life of me. I just came inside from my porch trying to teach one of my daughters and was searching the internet for the rules of that game.. Anyone else know??

Yes, but i was already older,…

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Yes, but i was already older, had smaller siblings that i would play with. I was mon and they would ask me to come forward, I would let them take different kind of ateps, but remember that they had to do something else Like twirl while they were toaking the steps. But if they made the run for it and touched me . they won,

Always thought Skelly was…

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Always thought Skelly was a Whitestone, Queens game. Throughout the ’60’s I played just about every morning with my friends at PS 209, Clearview’s neighborhood elementary school. Great fun! We all bickered over whether candle wax or melted crayons was better fill for our bottle caps (soda bottles).