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I remember playing a game called “Suicide” back at P.S. 99 in the Midwood part of Brooklyn. Whoever had the ball would throw it at the wall, and if someone caught it before it hit the ground the person who threw it would get an “automatic out.” If someone touched the ball and dropped it, that person would have to run towards the wall before they got pegged by someone. Getting pegged was another way to get out. Each out would spell “A-S-S.” Spell it and you had to leave the game. The last person left had the honor of pegging everyone else. There was nothing like being on the good side of that wall.
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Does anybody remember how to fold a sheet of paper into a “Fortune Teller”? I’m not sure of the correct name, but I remember all the girls on our block telling fortunes with a folded paper operated by the thumb and index finger of each hand. After viewing “Romy & Michelles High School Reunion”, where one of the characters plays with one of these things, my wife is trying to remember how to fold the 8-1/2 x 11″ paper. I’m out a ream of paper. Thanks…
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Pete,Sunnyside,Queens 1951-58 Two people stood on the edge of a sidewalk box facing each other,each having one box in front of them.On the line between the two boxes a “GOOD HUMOR,Popcicle” stick was placed at right angle to and on the line between the two boxes.The mission was to hit the stick and move it towards and at long last over the line at the edge of your opponent’s box.I don’t recall any points just win or lose. I came to this site via N.Y.TIMES story looking for CHINESE HANDBALL. I see ACE-KING-QUEEN which was the positions of the boxes but did not find anything. Any help anyone???
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In Queens in the 60’s, we played the five box version of boxball described above. Two players stood with five boxes between them; you would first bounce it once in the box closest to your opponent (your fifth box), and then once in each of your fourth and fifth boxes, and so on. I’m not quite sure if I remember the ping-pong style of two box that Connie describes above. We didn’t play hit the stick, but I do remember playing hit the penny. I think you scored one point if you hit the penny, and two if you flipped it. Players stood with two boxes between them, and put the penny or other coin on the crack between the two boxes. We didn’t like to use nickels because they were heavy and more difficult to flip. :^) This was a mostly a game for younger kids, whereas I remember still playing boxball into early adolescence, when we weren’t playing wiffle ball or stick ball or just hanging out. Another favorite game of childhood was ring-o-levio, which I played from early childhood right through high school. Those later HS games were neighborhood-wide.