Streetplay Discussions
Okay, here’s a suggestion….
Okay, here’s a suggestion. Problem is, it’s not tongue in cheek, and technically it’s not losing money, more like giving it away. If you’re all about street games, take the money to the streets! Start with New York since that seems to be where many of our roots are. Have a city-wide street games tournament and exhibition – give prizes and award money! Get sponsors – that way they can lose their money too! Maybe make it an annual thing. Imagine streets of the City closed off to punchball games, stickball games, skelly (or skully depending on where you were from), jacks, jump rope, etc. If it loses enough money in New York, you can take the show on the road and lose money in other urban areas.
We also played tops, but…
We also played tops, but the greatest store brought game of all time is Battling Tops. I 34 now and still have that game. I often play when old friends come over. I wish I could find a new board. The game was an arena with four players at oposite corners (but its actually a circle). You all released your taops, they go around and bang into one another. The last one standing gets one point
Thought of another one called:…
Thought of another one called: Round Up. This was a variation of tag and not quite Ringalivio/man hunt. One person was it. If they tagged/caught someone, they were both it. The idea was to catch everone eventually. To tag someone you had to grab them and say “Round Up Round Up 123” just like Ringalevio
How about “Hot peas and…
I grew up on the Lower east…
I grew up on the Lower east Side and played skulley throughout the late seventies/early eighties. I just read your rules document, and it seems complete. We had prepainted boards that did not have numbers in the skull except 13 of course. We just gave everyone 6 boxus/advances if you knocked someone out of the skull. If you knocked them from skull section to skull section it was treated as a standard hit. Our start was also much further from box # 1. Usually on the oposite side of the board, so beginers often found themself in the skull on turn one. We often switched caps when we became killers and used blasters. My favorite was the libby caps (about the size of todays snapple caps)
I grew up in the lower east…
To MG: Here’s another version…
To MG: Here’s another version of Concentration. Everyone sits in a circle, clapping and snapping in rhythm to: Concentration (clap snap), are you ready (clap snap), if so (clap snap), let’s go (clap snap), starting with (clap snap), names of (clap snap) – Then the leader would pick the subject – colors, names, states, baseball teams, whatever. Whoever got tongue-tied on the clap-snap was out. A little more civilized than “because I like the letter A” (which was, as I recall, sung to the tune of A Sailor Went to Sea-Sea-Sea). Oy vey.
Okay, here’s the clean version…
Okay, here’s the clean version of Miss Lucy: Miss Lucy had a baby, she named him Tiny Tim, She put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim. He drank up all the water, he ate up all the soap, He tried to eat the bathtub, but it wouldn’t go down his throat. Miss Lucy called the doctor, Miss Lucy called the nurse; Miss Lucy called the lady with the alligator purse. Etc. etc. etc.