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I used to play this in Southern…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 18, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Natalie
 

I used to play this in Southern California in the 60’s, when I was 10 or so. It was like hopscotch, except you drew a grid of 9 squares, and started in the lower right square. Each square was labeled. We labeled the first one “girls”, the second one “boys”, the third “fruit”, and so on. All I remember was, we had to jump in a counter- clockwise pattern, name the square, then name an object from that square for the rest. Sounds confusing. Let’s see if I can make it clearer. First, jump in first square and say “girls, girls”, then seconds square, say “mary, mary”, third square say “jenny, jenny”, etc., until you got to center square, hopefully coming up with 8 girls names. Then you’d start over, but this time, you’d jump in the first square, saying “girls, girls”, then jump in the second square saying “boys, boys”, then proceed to name 7 boys names without repeating. 3rd time around, it would be “girls, girls”, “boys, boys”, “fruit, fruit”, then name 6 fruit as you jumped into the next 6 boxes. Does anyone out there remember this game? I’ve been racking my brain to remember more of it, what the labels on the other boxes were, and whether you had to throw a stone into the boxes or anything. I played this with my cousins, whose parents were German, so maybe it’s from Germany. No one at school played this. I’d love to find the rules for it on line, or in a book, but everywhere I look for hopscotch games, it’s nowhere to be found. And, I don’t have a clue as to whether it has a name or not. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Posted in Girl games, Hopscotch

well i’m from israel and…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 18, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 18, 2001
Original author: Anonymous
 

well i’m from israel and we have a game similar to jacks. but they have no rule books and pretty much you make up things that you don’t know along the way. but i never knew what all of the levels were and what to do and how people in my class know all these deferent levels and i pretty much only know all the rules for four or five of those levels. So if you know any way to find the rules to a game called five stones, or çîù àáðéí, thanks a bunch.

Posted in Girl games, Jacks

—I can’t believe someone…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 10, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
Original author: mailboxe
 

—I can’t believe someone else on this planet knows that song! Could we have gone to school together? I tried to find out who wrote the lyrics on the rhyme and clap web site to no avail. I played that on the playground in the 4th grade in Alton, Il.—Kelly

Posted in Clap and Rhyme, Girl games

I bought a chinese jumprope…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 10, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Anonymous
 

I bought a chinese jumprope for my kids this weekend at toy r us in WI. The directions on the back said to start with the rope 6 feet off the ground! No, not inches, FEET! I remember playing on the playground at school. The school staff “out-lawed” going beyond the level of thighs because 2 girls went to the nurses office with “goose egg” bruises on their foreheads! Someone in the middle landed on the rope at a high level and the two “enders” smacked heads! Be careful when teaching your youngsters. I don’t remember songs we just chanted what we were doing ahead of the jump so the others could catch us if we were cheating. i.e., If you said “on” you’d better land on, and if not then you messed up.

Posted in Girl games, Jumprope | Tagged Chinese jumprope

How about Potsy? You make…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 8, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Anonymous
 

How about Potsy? You make a 8 boxes and you use 2 bobby pins hooked together or keys and throw them in a box one at a time 1 – 8 and you can’t step on the lines. When you complete 1 – 8 you go backwards 8 – 1 and when you complete that you own a box of your choosing and no one can step on it throughout the game. We spent hours playing Potsy.

Posted in Hopscotch, Other Games | Tagged "Red Light Green Light", potsy

sorry its: Im popeye the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 7, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 7, 2001
Original author: Anonymous
 

sorry its: Im popeye the sailor man I live in a frying pan i turned on the gas and burned my a**

Posted in Girl games | Tagged songs

Ta ra ra boom di a now throw…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 7, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 7, 2001
Original author: Anonymous
 

Ta ra ra boom di a now throw your clothes away and while your standing there I’ll take your underwear. Im popeye the sailor man, i live in a garbage can, I turned on the gas and burned my a** Im popeye the sailor man. Or …..I live in a garbage can, i eat all the junk and smell like a skunk. ….There goes my eyeball into my highball, there goes my fingernail into my gingerale, oh I got leprosy. …boom diddy boom, i want it, i want it, i want it real bad and if i dont get it, it will make me mad and if i get it it will make me tipsy, keep my mind off the subject and talk about whiskey. …ate a bar of soap he died last night with a bubble in his throat. In came the doctor, in came the nurse, in came the lady with the aligator purse. Out went the doctor out went the nurse out went the lady with the alligator purse. ….momma just had a new baby. It isnt a girl it isnt a boy its just a chocolate baby. Wrap it up in tissue paper send it down the elevator. How many floors does is go 1,2, 3, etc. abalaba cumalaba cumalaba veesday…ah na na na na veesday, a na na na na veesday. veesday veesday… Playmate come out and play with me Im lonely cant you see te he te he he he climb up my drainpipe slide down my cellar door and we’ll be jolly friends forever more. Oh she coulnt come out and play it was such a rainy day. With a tear in her eye you could hear her cry and this is what she’d say. Playmate I cant come play with you, my dolly has the flu, boo who boo who who who… its funny how you just remember pieces…loads of fun

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I have been reading with…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 4, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 4, 2001
Original author: Anonymous
 

I have been reading with great interest the discussion of “jacks.” We flipped to see who was first; if you could flip all of the jacks from one side of your hand to the other, you could claim, “one game.” Otherwise, we went from onezies to tens, in order. If you missed, you were out and the next girl took her turn. We called a stacked jack “double jack,” and if anyone yelled “double jack” first, she got to smash it apart. Of course, if it were your turn you wanted to be the one to yell and break it apart gently, so that your jacks wouldn’t scatter. I had never heard the term “fancies” but evidently we called the same thing “coggzies.” You had to get through a hard coggs or easy coggs (your call) before you could claim the game. We played multiple games, reciting “one game, two games, etc. as we finished.

Posted in Girl games, Jacks

Did anyone play with two…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 3, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 3, 2001
Original author: Sharon
 

Did anyone play with two pink balls bouncing them against a wall? We used to do one, two three alera, four five six alera, etc. and at alera you had to bounce it under your leg or clap or turn around. We also used to do Mathew, Mark, Luke and John, you’re the next so carry on…. and you would pass the balls to the next one. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

Posted in Clap and Rhyme, Girl games

Does anybody remember that…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 2, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 2, 2001
Original author: emb
 

Does anybody remember that song (sung to one of the army marching tunes I think) “Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut just now, just now I found a peanut, found a peanut just now. It was rotten it was rotten it was rotten just now… Ate it anyway…etc. Does anybody know where this goes? I seem to remember it being quite long.

Posted in Girl games | Tagged songs

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