Airehead Posted July 6, 2020 Share #1 Posted July 6, 2020 The COVID has people spending more time at home and apparently games including board games are seeing a surge in popularity. In my hood, we had great games of 4-square with tournaments and special rules for younger opponents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post donkpow Posted July 6, 2020 Popular Post Share #2 Posted July 6, 2020 Dominate my siblings. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted July 6, 2020 Share #3 Posted July 6, 2020 Board games it was Risk Physical games it was full contact anything 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #4 Posted July 6, 2020 Just now, Further said: Board games it was Risk Physical games it was full contact anything Risk also when I was a teen. Probably Monotony when I was younger. Physical was baseball and bike ramp jumping and fort building. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #5 Posted July 6, 2020 Mousetrap 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #6 Posted July 6, 2020 I remember four square. Can’t remember the rules though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #7 Posted July 6, 2020 Monopoly, fun for hour, days, weeks But as a kid we spent most of our time ootside. Imagination back then went a long ways. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted July 6, 2020 Share #8 Posted July 6, 2020 Board games was Clue, outside games were baseball and Hide and Seek. We took H&S seriously on our street. Every kid (there were lots of us) would run home and come back in their special H&S all dark clothes with a huge area to hide in 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #9 Posted July 6, 2020 Bloody Tiger. It was a great after dark game in our little town growing up because very few people had pools or fences and we all had big yards. The object of the game was to get back to "base" before the bloody tiger caught you. To play all the kids would get togehter and set up whose yards the bloody tiger could use to hide. Usually it was the Orr's, the MacGregors and our yards. Then a Bloody Tiger was selected to go hide. Usually got a 100 count to do this. Then all the other kids had to scatter out and try to "find" the bloody tiger. If you found him, or her, you screamed Bloody Tiger and ran back to base. Whoever the Bloody Tiger caught first was the next Bloody Tiger. I could just see parents heads exploding today if you tried this in most towns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post maddmaxx ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Popular Post Share #10 Posted July 6, 2020 When we weren't shooting each other with bb guns we played wiffle ball. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted July 6, 2020 Share #11 Posted July 6, 2020 At home we'd often play Trouble. Since it was pure luck, it was good for the family since everyone had an equal chance of winning. When we were in the country, we'd play a lot of cards - solitaire, gin rummy, 21 and pinochle (with very flexible rules). In the city, we had a lot of playground games like statue and red rover. I also recall playing the Game of Life - I liked adding all the little people pegs to the car. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted July 6, 2020 Share #12 Posted July 6, 2020 5 minutes ago, jsharr said: Bloody Tiger. It was a great after dark game in our little town growing up because very few people had pools or fences and we all had big yards. The object of the game was to get back to "base" before the bloody tiger caught you. To play all the kids would get togehter and set up whose yards the bloody tiger could use to hide. Usually it was the Orr's, the MacGregors and our yards. Then a Bloody Tiger was selected to go hide. Usually got a 100 count to do this. Then all the other kids had to scatter out and try to "find" the bloody tiger. If you found him, or her, you screamed Bloody Tiger and ran back to base. Whoever the Bloody Tiger caught first was the next Bloody Tiger. I could just see parents heads exploding today if you tried this in most towns. What was the incentive to go hunt the bloody tiger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share #13 Posted July 6, 2020 44 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Risk also when I was a teen. Probably Monotony when I was younger. Physical was baseball and bike ramp jumping and fort building. Fort building--- we did that too. We also had a game where everyone was an Indian and we picked field corn and made stuff with it. As a little kid, I loved making mud pies all decorated with nature. I blame that for my love of decorating cakes today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #14 Posted July 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: When we weren't shooting each other with bb guns we played wiffle ball. We did a lot of this as well. Also sat on the bank of the creek next to the house and tried to shoot mud dobbers when they landed to get mud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #15 Posted July 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Kirby said: What was the incentive to go hunt the bloody tiger? Adventure and excitement. It was just good fun with no real winner or loser. Sort of like hide and go seek but outdoors and with a chase involved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share #16 Posted July 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, jsharr said: Adventure and excitement. It was just good fun with no real winner or loser. Sort of like hide and go seek but outdoors and with a chase involved. Anything with chase was always good unless someone stepped in a whistle pig hole. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted July 6, 2020 Share #17 Posted July 6, 2020 52 minutes ago, petitepedal said: Mousetrap Did you play the game or did you just build the trap? I don't think I ever play the actual game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #18 Posted July 6, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mr. Grumpy said: Did you play the game or did you just build the trap? I don't think I ever play the actual game. It was fun. Rube Goldberg in action. Operation was good too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #19 Posted July 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Airehead said: Anything with chase was always good unless someone stepped in a whistle pig hole. No whistle pigs in Edmond Oklahoma that I knew of. Lots of dog piles though, as the concept of using a bag to pick up dog poop had not made it to that part of the world yet. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #20 Posted July 6, 2020 Just now, jsharr said: No whistle pigs in Edmond Oklahoma that I knew of. Lots of dog piles though, as the concept of using a bag to pick up dog poop had not made it to that part of the world yet. If you are lucky the piles desiccate nicely, for small piles anyhoo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted July 6, 2020 Share #21 Posted July 6, 2020 I had foosball table that my friend an I spent a lot of time on. For board game, I think we probably played Monopoly the most. As a teen my friend and I played a lot of Panzer General, a tactical war game. I own one computer game, Panzer Corp, which is based on Panzer General. If anyone wants to start a 'Play by E-Mail' game with me, drop me a PM. I can get you hooked up. I think it will take about a 20 minute, every other day, commitment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #22 Posted July 6, 2020 I would love to see an old video of a 5 year old @Kzoo screaming at the other kids to get off his lawn! I am glad he still plays his favorite child hood game today! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted July 6, 2020 Share #23 Posted July 6, 2020 Baseball, then Monopoly. A few epic Risk games as I got into high school and beyond. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #24 Posted July 6, 2020 This thread has brought back the memory of Sharks and Minnows. It was a variety of tag we played in the pool at the country club. We played it in the deep end, the more kids the better. One person was the shark and was on one side of the pool, minnows were on the other. As minnows were tagged they became sharks during the next round. The side of the pool was base. You kept tagging minnows until there were none left. Then it started over with a new shark. I can’t remember if it was the first or last person tagged who became the next shark. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 6, 2020 Share #25 Posted July 6, 2020 Monopoly, Clue and Battleship for board games. We played a lot of cards. Pitch, 21, Spoons. Spoons was a full contact game with my cousins. One time were stuck inside at their place because of a blizzard. We got bored and started to play Forks! Outside was riding bikes on the gravel streets of our little town. We liked to slam on the coaster brake and see who could skid farthest. Also a lot of H&S and Tag 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #26 Posted July 6, 2020 soccer, wiflfle ball, nerf football, Risk, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #27 Posted July 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Dottles said: soccer, wiflfle ball, nerf football, Risk, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons all at once? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted July 6, 2020 Share #28 Posted July 6, 2020 1 hour ago, jsharr said: I would love to see an old video of a 5 year old @Kzoo screaming at the other kids to get off his lawn! I am glad he still plays his favorite child hood game today! You're getting on my nerves.. I had a really cool 1/32 sale figure 8 race track I got for my 8th birthday. That was a favorite. Outside it was building forts and playing in the woods. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #29 Posted July 6, 2020 13 minutes ago, jsharr said: all at once? Yeah, the jocks in our school were academics too. I mean horny and destructive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted July 6, 2020 Share #30 Posted July 6, 2020 Kickball was my favorite outdoor group game. I spent a lot of alone time pretending stories with barbies. I had nine of them (most had short, curly hair) and lots of accessories and clothing. I liked battleship as a one on one game. And our favorite indoor group games were masterpiece and clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #31 Posted July 6, 2020 These are indoor games so baseball, etc. is out. I used to play a lot of different card games, with others like Pitch and Pinochle, and solo like various solitaire games and a game I invented using a standard 52-card deck to represent a baseball game: aces were home runs, 2's and 3's were outs or hit into double plays if there was a man on first, etc. The favorite board game when very young was Monopoly then Chess took over in high school, Chess and Risk in college. Yesterday I signed up for my first rated team match 3-day/move chess games in a while. I'm playing for Maryland in a match with Tennessee beginning July 15th. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #32 Posted July 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, roadsue said: Kickball was my favorite outdoor group game. I spent a lot of alone time pretending stories with barbies. I had nine of them (most had short, curly hair) and lots of accessories and clothing. I liked battleship as a one on one game. And our favorite indoor group games were masterpiece and clue. I remember Clue. Forgot about that. Good game. Anybody remember this? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #33 Posted July 6, 2020 14 minutes ago, Kzoo said: You're getting on my nerves.. I had a really cool 1/32 sale figure 8 race track I got for my 8th birthday. That was a favorite. Outside it was building forts and playing in the woods. I will lay off now. Thank you for not yelling at me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted July 6, 2020 Share #34 Posted July 6, 2020 My childhood was mostly spent outside until it was too dark to play outside. We had a big vacant field across the street that was our playground so it was Riding bikes, BB gun wars, & all sorts of adventures in the field. Later on it was surfing. We hated board games or cards & (still do) didn’t have them. We basically came in at dark, washed up, ate dinner and watched TV until we passed out. My wife had a very different upbringing and didn’t play outside, wasn’t allowed. She basically grew up watching her baby brother & playing solitaire & other puzzles you can do by yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrAzY Posted July 6, 2020 Share #35 Posted July 6, 2020 pellet gun wars, stone skipping, firework battles 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #36 Posted July 6, 2020 Jigsaw puzzles where cool too. Thanks for the reminder @ChrisL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted July 6, 2020 Share #37 Posted July 6, 2020 1 minute ago, KrAzY said: pellet gun wars, stone skipping, firework battles You would have fit in well with my group of friends! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrAzY Posted July 6, 2020 Share #38 Posted July 6, 2020 Just now, ChrisL said: You would have fit in well with my group of friends! I was the dangerous kid that parents warned their kids about... funny thing is my parents did know it was actually me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #39 Posted July 6, 2020 I grew up with four sisters and a brother. I never spent much time around the house. Ride bikes, explore places. We had a pool in the backyard so my friends always wanted to come to my house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted July 6, 2020 Share #40 Posted July 6, 2020 I loved playing king of the mountain when I was little As a teenager I was all over trail bikes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 6, 2020 Share #41 Posted July 6, 2020 13 minutes ago, ChrisL said: My childhood was mostly spent outside until it was too dark to play outside. We had a big vacant field across the street that was our playground so it was Riding bikes, BB gun wars, & all sorts of adventures in the field. Later on it was surfing. We hated board games or cards & (still do) didn’t have them. We basically came in at dark, washed up, ate dinner and watched TV until we passed out. My wife had a very different upbringing and didn’t play outside, wasn’t allowed. She basically grew up watching her baby brother & playing solitaire & other puzzles you can do by yourself. Board games, etc were for when it was too cold to be outside 32 minutes ago, Kzoo said: You're getting on my nerves.. I had a really cool 1/32 sale figure 8 race track I got for my 8th birthday. That was a favorite. Outside it was building forts and playing in the woods. Once we got the bigger house, we got an AFX HO scale slot car track. I still have some of the old cars. The track got tossed when water got in our basement several years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted July 6, 2020 Share #42 Posted July 6, 2020 1 minute ago, groupw said: Board games, etc were for when it was too cold to be outside Yeah a concept lost to us in SoCal! Rainy days did suck though... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #43 Posted July 6, 2020 Indoor games consisted of stalking convoys of model ships with model submarines. When that got boring I'd open a window and shoot at things from inside with the bb gun, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChrisL Posted July 6, 2020 Popular Post Share #44 Posted July 6, 2020 21 minutes ago, KrAzY said: I was the dangerous kid that parents warned their kids about... funny thing is my parents did know it was actually me We had a PTSD Vietnam vet brother who taught us all sorts of ways to make things go boom with common household items. The best where the mortars we made with tin cans, lighter fluid & flaming tennis balls! We had tons of bottle rockets, M80’s & bricks of firecrackers at our disposal thanks to him & his buddies. BB gun wars were also common. We had a 3 pump limit but we didn’t always follow that... I’m actually amazed we didn’t suffer any major injuries or die... Yeah you would have fit in nicely! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share #45 Posted July 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Allen said: Sharks and Minnows Yes-- I had forgotten about this Also Marco Polo Drowning each other was considered fun back in the day 1 hour ago, jsharr said: all at once? of course 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 6, 2020 Share #46 Posted July 6, 2020 22 minutes ago, ChrisL said: Yeah a concept lost to us in SoCal! Rainy days did suck though... Wimp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share #47 Posted July 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Dottles said: I remember Clue. Forgot about that. Good game. Anybody remember this? Yes, my grandmother had this game and liked to play with us. She expected us to follow the rules, my grandfather could be persuaded that "our rules" were the right rules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 6, 2020 Share #48 Posted July 6, 2020 We also took the plastic army men, scattered them around the room and saw how many each of us could take out with a limited number of rubber bands. Sometimes it was like pool where you tried to bank or get a combination shot. One brother would get his soldiers into a “flying wedge” of sorts. Sometimes he would get lucky, other times it only took a couple shots to wipe his out! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted July 6, 2020 Share #49 Posted July 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, groupw said: We also took the plastic army men, scattered them around the room and saw how many each of us could take out with a limited number of rubber bands. Sometimes it was like pool where you tried to bank or get a combination shot. One brother would get his soldiers into a “flying wedge” of sorts. Sometimes he would get lucky, other times it only took a couple shots to wipe his out! Oh I did the same with my pellet gun. We had a long but somewhat narrow backyard and Id set them up in the plants on one end of the yard and snipe them from the other end which was around 40’. Good times! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted July 6, 2020 Share #50 Posted July 6, 2020 We still play Globetrotters when we get together. A couple years ago one of the kids found copies of the game for the other two. It is an awesome game where you travel to cities around the world and do 'adventures'. Some are good, some not and some expensive. Each adventure is each city is something you can actually do. When the three kids traveled after school many times theh would message back they had done something mentioned in the game. You win keys to the city, but people can steal them, or you can go to a place like vegas, gamble and lose and be deported home. This picture was my wife making us sit for a picture after she absolutely crushed us this year at Christmas to become the reigning 'Champion of the World' On time playing during the day we called the company to get an offical ruling on something weird that had happened that was not covered in the rule book 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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