Category Archives: Other Games
We played Seven up much…
Oh yeah, don’t forget about…
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Oh yeah, don’t forget about Duck, duck, goose. They actually played this with dogs at a dog training class I was in! I think they called it dog dog bone or something, same basic rules, except you have to heel your dog around the circle, and all the other dogs were on sit-stays next to their owners, facing out towards you…
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The way we played Red Rover…
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The way we played Red Rover when I was in gradeschool (not so very long ago 🙂 was the two teams would be on each side, hands linked. Then someone from one team would shout “Red rover, red rover let ____(name of kid) come over!” Then the kid they named had to run over and try to break the chain (no going under allowed). Usually they know where the weakest link is… If you don’t get through, you have to get in the chain. The game ends when one team has everyone. I think if you DID break through, you would get to go back to the other team? Or maybe you sit out the rest?
I remember the game well,…
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I remember the game well, but I also remember manufacturing and selling wax filled caps. I’d create designs in the bottlecaps and other kids would bid on the best. Mostly they sold for a nickel and 3 for a dime. In 1968, it beat hunting for dirty deposit bottles. Thanks for the memories
All my friends would stand…
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All my friends would stand in a line facing me. They would each choose a brand of cigarettes to be and discuss it among themselves making sure I didn’t hear. I would then start yelling out brands and who ever was that brand would take off running like a bat out of hell. I would have to chase them around a house and if I didn’t catch them by the time they got back into line I was still it. If I caught them they’d now be the person yelling out brands. We’d change the game frequently using colors or soda brands instead of cigarettes. Therefore changing the name to “colors” or “sodas”. Hope you enjoyed my story, this is truly one of my fondest childhood memories.
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In West Philly, we called it “caps”. Sometimes “Skelly” which I always thought was short for skeleton. We packed our decorked bottle caps with dirt. We took turns looking out for cars. I am teaching it at recess at our K-8 school for TV Turn-off Week. My husband is donating his plastic Odwalla (SF Bay Area exclusive) and metal Stewarts root beer caps to the cause. Your rules are really helpful for refreshing my memory about the skull section conseqences. I intend to give the kids several sets of your rules and let them go for it. I hope with practice that they are able to improve upon our old techniques. A fellow parent from NJ hipped me to your fab site. Eyewater is rolling mourning childhood’s end :{