what happen to the old days

[Lightninguk 0]

i was talking to our lass about old games we use to play on our street here a few, can you tell me if you played these games or what was they call in your area

the good old days when we had no pc/xbox/ps3/

British bulldogs

British bulldogs is mainly played in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other Commonwealth countries, and banned from many schools. One or two players start as the "bulldogs" who stand in the middle of the play area, while the other players stand at one end of the area. The aim is to run from one end of the area to the other without being caught by the bulldogs. When a player is caught they become a bulldog themselves. The winner is the last player or players 'free'

Octopus tag

Octopus tag is a mix between Red Rover and tag.[19] 'It', or 'Octopus', attempts to tag the other players. The playing field is known as the ocean. The players, or 'fish', line up along one side of the ocean and trying to run to the other side without getting tagged. In a variation once the 'fish' run to the other side without getting tagged the game pauses until the 'octopus' starts it again. Upon getting tagged the 'fish' become 'seaweed' and must freeze or sit where they were tagged, but can wave their arms around and assist the 'Octopus' in tagging other 'fish' within their reach. The last 'fish' to be tagged becomes the next 'Octopus'.

Kiss chase "best game in the world next to doctor & nurse"

Kiss chase is a tag variant in which tagging is performed by kissing. All members of one gender are 'it' at once and chase the opposite sex until everyone is caught, when the roles are reversed. "The game is not about who can run faster or slower, as in the standard versions of Tag, so much as the strength of each individual's desire to kiss the girl or boy they are pursuing". A variant is that one member of a gender can be 'it' and with assistance from those of the same gender they chase all members of the opposite sex and kiss one of them, who is then 'it' on behalf of the other gender

Stuck in the mud

Also known as 'freeze tag', or 'Ice And Water' in Asian countries, players who are tagged are 'stuck in the mud' or 'frozen' and must stand in place with their arms stretched out until they are 'unfrozen'. An unstuck/unfrozen player performs an action to unfreeze them, such as tagging them, crawling between their legs,

Cops and Robbers

Cops and Robbers, sometimes called 'team tag', 'Chase', 'Police and Thief', or Prisoner's Base, has players split into two teams: cops (the 'it' team who are in pursuit) and robbers (the team being chased). The cops 'arrest' the robbers by tagging, and put them in 'jail'. Robbers can stage a jailbreak by tagging one of the prisoners without getting tagged themselves. The game ends if all the robbers are in jail. (At some times, robbers get to on two bases. Cops cannot enter these bases. once a robber leaves on base, he cannot return to the base he has just left. he must go to the other base and make sure he does not get caught.)

What's the time, Mr Wolf?

One player is chosen to be Mr Wolf and stands facing away from the other players at the opposite end of the playing field. All players except Mr Wolf chant in unison "What's the time, Mr Wolf?", and Mr Wolf will answer in one of two ways: Mr Wolf may call a time - usually an hour ending in "o'clock". The other players take that many steps towards Mr Wolf. They then ask the question again. Alternatively Mr Wolf may call "Dinner time!", and turn and chase the other players back to their starting point. If Mr Wolf tags a player, that player becomes Mr Wolf for the next round.

[Colt45_GTO 10]

never heard of any of those.

tig yes but non of the others.

our school didn't approve much but me and a few mates used to play truant :lol:

[riffleman 20]

I play cops and thieves.still playing with mates.

[maddogx 13]

Wow, I haven't thought about those games in decades - literally :). I think we played all of those back in the day. Definitely Kiss Chase, Mr. Wolf and Octopus Tag. If I'm not mistaken, Cops and Robbers and British Bulldog were "banned" at my school for a while, because we tended to get a bit too rough. :D

Ahh, Kiss Chase. That brings back memories.

[Mudkip 0]

I used to play all of them in primary school except for "kiss chase" which sounds very risky with the recent outbreak of cooties and all...

[maddogx 13]

I used to play all of them in primary school except for "kiss chase" which sounds very risky with the recent outbreak of cooties and all...

Heh, I actually had to look up "cooties" because I had no idea what it is. We never thought about that stuff back in my "kiss chase" days. I guess we were just careless back in the 80's. :D

[SWT_Janowich 10]

Never needed that stuff, we had PS2s

Edited November 27, 2009 by SWT_Janowich
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[bascule42 10]

Ahh Bulldog. That was a pissa that one. We used to play it on the school field with a successful catch meaning the shoulders had to be pinned down on the ground. More often than not it would get a bit nasty 'cause there was always one who a) didn't like the fact that "that nob ed" had pinned him down, or b) just wouldn't have it that he'd been pinned down. By the end of the dinner hour, people would be punching and laying the boot in. All good fun. I think it was banned but most of the time, no one could be arsed to come over and stop us and if they did they'd be surrounded by about 50 11-15 year olds saying what a great game it was and that we'd play nice, "pleeeease sir"!

We'd play cops and robbers, but it always ended up with the "guns" getting bigger - ie, louder noises, and it turned into grenade fight - ie throwing what ever was at hand at each other.

[Nazul 10]

Us private school boys used to play Blind-folded-nude-leap-frog. It was such jolly good fun, someone would always get stuck in the mud.

Soggy biscuit was a favourite just before bed time too.

[NeMeSiS 11]

British bulldogs

British bulldogs is mainly played in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other Commonwealth countries, and banned from many schools.

What? Banned? We used to do it as a warming up at school. :p

I know every Dutch version of these games, though i cant remember what we called most of them, and in some cases the details are slightly different.

EDIT: And now i want to play them again.

Edited November 27, 2009 by NeMeSiS

[dmarkwick 261]

We used to play a game called "hot rice". A ball, most often a tennis ball, is used by one guy and thrown at any of the other players. If hit, that player joins the throwing team to throw the ball to each other and at other opposing players. Last guy hit by the ball wins.

Another game we had was called "squareball", and I believe that it was unique to our school. We had a mysterious square of concrete in the middle of the grass playing area, about 3m to a side. It was divided into 4 quarters and numbered 1-4 and one player stood in each quarter. From there, it was like a sort of 4-way tennis, where position 4 served the ball, to it's diagonally opposite area, and from that point on the ball could be hit (by hand) into any other area and that guy must return it to another area like tennis. If he fails, he's out and joins the queue for new players. Each time one guy was "out" all the lower numbered players moved around one and a new player from the front of the queue joined in position 1, until they eventually reached the coveted number 4 position, which was the serving position. Object was just to play for as long as possible.

[Richey79 10]

The 'culture of litigation' we imported from America killed most of these, and the fear-mongering tabloid press.

Wonderful games, all.

However, anything with physical contact is out these days. Kiss-chase would be decried as 'sexual harassment'. Think I'm exaggerating? Numerous schools in England have banned children from playing conkers on grounds of health and safety.

Most of the parents who make a fuss about games involving physical contact are the same ones who rush out to buy little Johnny his copy of Modern Warfare 2, and then fail to stop him playing it 'til four in the morning. There are plenty of 13-year-olds whose parents are happy to buy 18 rated video games for them. They don't take enough of an interest in the 'electronic babysitter' to understand why something has been given an adult rating.

Edited November 27, 2009 by Richey79

[da12thMonkey 1943]

Us private school boys used to play Blind-folded-nude-leap-frog. It was such jolly good fun, someone would always get stuck in the mud.

Soggy biscuit was a favourite just before bed time too.

I fucking lol'd

Used to love playing British bulldog when I was a nipper: broke my clavicle and dislocated a finger playing it when I was 7 or 8. When you got a really big game going, the first few waves of people running across the playground were wide enough to stampede half a dozen smaller kids who weren't even involved with the game... that's probably why it gets banned in schools today though.

It got a bit rough by the time we were about 10 or so, but by then we preferred rugby or football which were marginally less brutal.

[Col. Faulkner 0]

British Bulldogs enjoyed popularity at our seat of learning until it was banned

by the school fascists authorities. Strangely the games of "Murderball"

(a "rough and tumble" cross between dodgeball and aggravated assault)

and "No rules rugby" ordered by the games master went unchallenged...

Another game we used to play as younger kids was "Best Dies". Set up: A

group of kids stands at the top of a hill, one other kid is appointed as

the "killer" and stands further down the hill, and the rest of the kids form the

audience and judging panel. To play: Each kid in turn from the group at the

top of the hill announces how he wants to be killed ( eg. "A machine gun!"

or "A harpoon gun with a 'sploding harpoon!" or "A trident!" etc.) then starts

to run down the hill towards the "killer". The "killer" then mimics the action

of using the desired weapon and the "killed" acts out his death. The judges

award points for originality of weapon choice and for the most theatrical

death scene. Nowadays I suppose they'd cart us all off for psychological

counselling :j:

[metsapeikkoo 10]

i was talking to our lass about old games we use to play on our street here a few, can you tell me if you played these games or what was they call in your area

the good old days when we had no pc/xbox/ps3/

British bulldogs

Octopus tag

Kiss chase

Stuck in the mud

Cops and Robbers

What's the time, Mr Wolf?

When I was young, here in finland those names were bit different. I'll try to translate them

British bulldogs -> "Kuka pelkää mustaa miestä?" -> "Who is afraid of a black man?" (No. Seriously, that how that thing translates. But thanks to the "political correctiveness" and "multiculturism", that game has been banned/the name has been banned.)

Octopus tag -> Can't remember this one at all, I'm not sure if I ever played it either. I probably did.

Kiss tag -> Well, we never actually played that game. Finns are just way too shy for that kind of game.

Stuck in the mud -> No idea what this was called. I remember that I played it though.

Cops and Robbers -> "Kirkonrotta" -> "Church-rat". I have no idea why we called it "Church-rat" though. Was kinda fun game, depending on the location.

What's the time, Mr Wolf? -> I remember playing this one too, but can't remember the name again.

"Hot rice" -> "Polttopallo" -> "Burnball/Burning ball"

Capture the flag was really fun with large teams. Like 20 vs 20 or so.

[jakerod 254]

Another game we had was called "squareball", and I believe that it was unique to our school. We had a mysterious square of concrete in the middle of the grass playing area, about 3m to a side. It was divided into 4 quarters and numbered 1-4 and one player stood in each quarter. From there, it was like a sort of 4-way tennis, where position 4 served the ball, to it's diagonally opposite area, and from that point on the ball could be hit (by hand) into any other area and that guy must return it to another area like tennis. If he fails, he's out and joins the queue for new players. Each time one guy was "out" all the lower numbered players moved around one and a new player from the front of the queue joined in position 1, until they eventually reached the coveted number 4 position, which was the serving position. Object was just to play for as long as possible.

Not unique to your school. We have it here too and its called Four-Square. I don't remember the rules specifically (15 years ago), but those sound at least close to it. We had the squares painted on the blacktop outside our school. At least four of them I think.

41 55 27 N, 88 20 04 W <- My old elementary school. Put those into Google Earth/maps. You can see the boxes on the blacktop out back.

Edited November 28, 2009 by Jakerod

[Bulldogs 10]

British bulldogs

British bulldogs is mainly played in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other Commonwealth countries, and banned from many schools. One or two players start as the "bulldogs" who stand in the middle of the play area, while the other players stand at one end of the area. The aim is to run from one end of the area to the other without being caught by the bulldogs. When a player is caught they become a bulldog themselves. The winner is the last player or players 'free'

I still play... usually while very drunk

The one thing I miss the most that I haven't played in a long time is street cricket.

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Oh, and that "Squareball", it's played in most schools in Australia but we call it "Handball"

[riffleman 20]

I playing a game in which i have to protect circle(friends who hide),from inside circle i have to call the name of friend who i see.but from inside circle.

If anyone enter the circle and iam outside than i have to play again

[grub 10]

In Aus we used to call British Bulldogs, Bullrush. Same principle though and the same injuries.

We also used to call "Hot rice" Brandings. Again same principle.

And of course good old Handball. Played a lot of hand ball in my teenage years ;). I'm a youth worker so I know that this game has survived the PC police and is still being played.

[sic-disaster 311]

I do that British Dog thing a lot in my judo lessons, but the kids have to do it crawling instead of running to prevent injuries.

And it's not called British Bulldag, it's called Dutch Lion! :D

[riffleman 20]

Music guessing is good for long tour.

[andersson 285]

Back home kids spend 2 weeks every summer learning to swim. We had different games to warm up between the water sessions. A good one I remember was quite simple but fun.

One kid was counting to 10 out loud without looking and the rest runs away and hide. Then that kid tries to see the rest and when anyone is seen the kid shouts out his/hers name. The kids that are seen and have their name shouted out must go into a square and wait. Then the fun begins because the rest can try to get to that square and free all the prisoners, if that happens he/she that are trying to find the rest must do another count to 10 without looking.

We played it in an area with alot of bushes, tress and boathouses. I still remember the thrill when you and a few friends tried to sneak up to free the others, maybe making a run behind the back of the kid trying to find someone. If you were that kid it was always a gamble how far away from the "prison" you dared to go to find the rest.

The game was won when all kids were in the prison.

Fun times :)

[SwiftyBoy 0]

We had a variation of tig called "tigs off ground". Which was what it sounds like, really - you couldn't be tigged if you had both feet off the ground (clinging onto a chainlink fence, standing on a bucket, balancing on a football, that sort of thing). Top quality game, all the rage Oop North in 1974...

[dmarkwick 261]

Top quality game, all the rage Oop North in 1974...

That's about my era too, Leeds.

[chops 111]

Brandy was my favourite. Basically chasey/tag but with a ball, usually a tennis ball. No game ever last long before someone took it up a notch. Whoever was 'it' would soak the tennis ball, making it heavier and therefore hurt more and leaving a nice wet splodge on your Hypercolour T-shirt (that stopped changing colours after the first wash anyway).