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I remember playing hopscotch…

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I remember playing hopscotch with 8 boxes (no rounded top.) We used key chains to throw into each box but not to touch any of the lines or your turn is over. After you successfully hop thru all 8 boxes you continued back to the 1st box.Once that is completed we now played the 2nd half of the game called “potsy” which entailed hopping on 1 foot only! Also with the same rules of not steping on the lines. That’s how we played hopscotch in Bay Ridge Brooklyn in the 60’s.

This is such a coooooool…

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This is such a coooooool site! I’m not getting any work done! My sister and I used to play skully in the Woodside Housing Projects in Queens in the late 50’s. To this day, the smell of Crayola Crayons brings back floods of memories — both because I used to draw with them, but mostly because of their aroma when melted for my skully shooters! On the radiator — I had forgotten that! Wow…… Jan

Remember “Hill Dill Come…

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Remember “Hill Dill Come Over My Hill”? One person was it in the center called out “Hill Dill Come Over My Hill” and all the other people would have to make it (run) to the other side without getting caught. If you got caught you were in the center with “it”. This was repeated until everyone was caught.

Picture a shallow wooden…

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Picture a shallow wooden box sitting on the floor, say three feet wide by six feet long, with a slot carved out at either short end. In front of each slot is a wooden block which does just that, serves as a goalie of sorts to block the puck from coming through the slot (goal). The two players sit on the floor at either end, behind each goal. In their hand they hold a knock hockey stick, which looks like a miniature of the real thing. The players vie for possession of the puck to start. Whoever has control of the puck uses the hockey stick to hit the puck at strategic angles against the sides of the board, the object of course being to get the puck through the slot (goal) with one whack. If the player doesn’t succeed, the other player gets a turn, hitting the puck from wherever it landed last turn. If you keep hitting it in the goal, you keep going. The amount of points to win is determined at the outset of the game, usually 25.

I grew up on 181st between…

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I grew up on 181st between Vyse and Bryant in the Bronx. (right around the corner from the Bronx Zoo-South enterance “West Farms Square”) We called it skully. Had to go 1-13 and around the center and back down to become a killer. If you ended up in the sections around 13 you were stuck till someone hit you out. We all had different size caps filled with wax. When it rained we played on the linoleum in my bedroom (6 story walk up) that had flowers located in the in the shape of the “skully”. I am now a Phys Ed teacher in Phoenix and we play skully, stickball, one wall handball, off the curb, punch ball and Johnny on the Pony. The kids love thses games and I really enjoy the memories while playing with them.

We used to play a game called…

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We used to play a game called “buck buck”. Consisted of 2 teams…one guy would lean against a wall. Next guy would bend over and put his shoulder into the 1st guys groin area (not what you’re thinking either) Each other guy would then bend over and place their head between the legs of the guy in front of him so all that was exposed really were the guys backs. Other team would then one by one run and jump on the backs of the other team. If the team jumping could not get all their members on or if a guy fell off or his foot touched the ground after he jumped on, they lose. If the down team caved in they lost and had to assume the same position for another round. Once all of the 2nd team had jumped on and no one caved in, one of the members of the top team would yell out, “Buck buck how many fingers up?” One of the bottom guys had to guess how many fingers was being held up. If they were wrong they were down again for another back pounding. If they guessed correct, the teams changes positions for the next game. It could be a very rough game. We played this in McKeesport, PA.

any one play 3 steps from…

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any one play 3 steps from Germany in bensonhurst in the fifties? my hubby was from 69th st. I played statue, red light, red rover and ball. but my bike and roller skates gave me freedom. the streets w4ere so much safer then. noone watched us, they just called us in for dinner. what great days those were.

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Thanks to all who posted — NOW I know what this game was about! Kids who were a little older (faster? smarter?) played this game on the Lower East Side when I was about 8 or 9 (36 years ago), and I remember mostly the guys yelling, “Ringolevio, caught, caught, caught, caught!!” I wondered what the heck was going on, but they thought I was too young to play so I never knew much about this game — until now. – webdiva