Who here knows what the game "Tiddlywinks" is...?

[FirstLight]

I feel so old!

...ahhh the simple days when we just played with colored bits of plastic! lol


Edit to add: I used the term in a statement to my teen and he had NO idea what I was talking about!



What about "pick-up-stix"...?

[WeDidIt]

1. We played with spherical balls of glass

and we LIKED IT!

[FirstLight]

2. Hey, I was a marbles champion on MY street!

:rofl:

[madokie]

66. Game on

so was I

[HughMoran]

34. I loved taking other peoples' "biggies"

I still have my jar of marbles :D

[Sal Minella]

38. ?Any "steelies" in it???

[Sal Minella]

39. delete

[HughMoran]

79. You mean like ball-bearings?

We used those for the game "Shoot the Moon". That game was very challenging, so I played it for hours :D

[Sal Minella]

98. Yes, ball bearings. We looked grimly on the kids who shot their steelies hard enough

to shatter the glass marbles, which cost so dearly at the dimestore.

How did you play "Shoot the Moon?" (I collected marbles more than played with them, was not athletically skilled even at marbles).

[HughMoran]

108. That was a one-person game that had two rods that you separated to get the ball rolling

...and you would close them up to gain momentum, then drop the ball at the closest capture "crater" to you. It used a heavy ball-bearing as this had the mass needed to keep it rolling "up hill". It has gone by other names over the years. Ahh, here's a picture I found - it's still available some places :)

[Sal Minella]

152. I never knew what that toy was called -- and never tried to play it because

I knew I wouldn't have enough coordination to be any good at it. (I was pretty good at roller-skating, though).

[U4ikLefty]

143. Somewhere I still have some steelies, cats-eyes & clearies.

I miss those games from my elemetary school days.

[Sal Minella]

149. Ah, Clearies! My favorites. To this day, I will be stopped dead at sight

of a goldfish bowl with clear marbles in the bottom. I have NO idea why.

My neighbor has light blue ones in hers, and looking into that fishbowl is like instant meditation or something. No explanation comes to mind.

[HughMoran]

156. I have some transparent red biggies that stop me in my tracks

I can stare at them for long periods of time :D

[Sal Minella]

160. Aren't we funny?

Maybe way back in the mists of time, shortly after (or before) we stood up on our hind legs, "clear" meant "water safe to drink" and drew us in? Or something. Who knows.

Good that we can enjoy simple pleasures, though. ... :)

[pansypoo53219]

48. i collect marbles

and i loves savers like you. estate sale marbles! but i found my only clay glazed one while talking to my grandpa and spotted it emerging out of the dirt. he found a bunch of them when weeding his lawn.

[madokie]

67. I spent close to 20 years doing concrete work and it almost always requires disturbing

the ground and you'd be surprised at the number of marbles I've found back through out that time. I always had time to bend down to pick one up and now I'm constantly putting them up as I relocate them here in the house so our 21 month old grand daughter don't get one and choke on it.

[HughMoran]

80. Hmmm, now you have me wanting to dig out the ol' jar and see what I got

I get all sentimental feeling when I look at all the different types of marbles and remember which ones I had a "special" feeling for.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. My Dad and I used to play on the kitchen table....

And when I beat him he used to give me a "noogie".

Bonus points if you know what a "noogie" is.

[SharonAnn]

33. Hey, I win, I win! I know what both "Tiddlywinks" and "noogie" are.

[ConcernedCanuk]

131. two knuckles punched into the upper arm near the shoulder - hurt like hell

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my sister had five of us for brothers

we got "noogied" constantly when we pissed her off . . .

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yeah, I loved that game. Also jacks and pick up sticks.

[foxfeet]

5. Sorry. Pick up sticks always conjures the image of Ann Coulter.

Ewww.

[thunder rising]

30. No it's the design pattern used by Indian programmers (everything is different and entangled)

[madokie]

68. gross

:puke:

[FirstLight]

6. lol! I *just* thought of that one too!

...gosh...are we any smarter because we had to use our imagination MORE?

[WeDidIt]

7. We modernized when I was a kid

when one of us got a Barrel of Monkeys and another got a Kerplunk.

[carlyhippy]

8. I remember tiddlywinks, and jacks

I could get the tiddlywinks to fly about 2 ft thru the air haha, don't think I was playing it right. Jacks...I spent more time twirlying the jacks like tops, we had a game to see how many we could have spinning at once before one would stop and fall down.

I also remember chinese checkers. I know we didn't play that one right, the marbles were shot towards the spinning jacks usually, to see if they would fly across the floor.

I knew that I had better make sure all those jacks were picked up off the floor, parents didn't like to step on them in the middle of the night haha.

[FirstLight]

9. oooh! here's another one!

since I am on a reminicent tangent now... My sister used to go ape-shit with this one!

[WeDidIt]

11. Shit, that was just a fancy modernized version of an old card game

Slap Jack.

[FirstLight]

22. Oh yea...we played that, and Crazy 8's

War and poker ... but slap jack was fun cuz my sister and I could beat on eachother and it was "part of the game"...!

I also learned how to play craps at a young age! My dad had the felt top off a game table from when he worked at the casinos during his college years. We played with big metal washers as our betting chips! lol

[SoCalDem]

52. Slap Jack & War always ended up with red marks & tears

:rofl:

[shraby]

10. How about "kick the can" and "ante I over" (sp?)

[WeDidIt]

13. We played us some TAG and DODGE BALL!

But the greatest fun were the pickup baseball games and an anual event where we picked the rainiest day in the fall to play football in a dirt field.

[FirstLight]

19. yea...and "mother may I?"

or Red light/Green light...which I still play wih my little ones now!

I used to play football with the neighbor boys too...we had a playbook and everything. I wanted to be the first girl quarterback! lol

[WeDidIt]

21. Red Rover and Duck Duck Goose!

:D

[SoCalDem]

53. and double dutch .. with the really thick ropes that went

"Thwaaaaaccck" when they hit the concrete.. we'd always make the teachers hunt for the "good" ropes:)

[ConcernedCanuk]

94. wow again - furgot about double dutch skipping

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well - I had a sister, OK??

[Raineyb]

102. Ropes?

We used clothes lines. They're thinner and swing very nicely.

Regards

[SoCalDem]

122. We liked the really thick 3/4 inch diameter ropes..and 3 or 4 could jump

at once:)

[cherokeeprogressive]

133. Over the Line. Baseball with as few as two on a side.

We played it nearly every weekend. I still have my high school baseball glove.

[nebenaube]

15. "allye all-ye in-come free" n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

132. These days it's "All-Ye All-Ye Income Free!" n/t

[nebenaube]

12. I remember it...

perfect training for playing quarters...

[Touchdown]

14. I do. Game sucks. I liked Hungry Hungry Hippos better.

:evilgrin:

[Cid_B]

47. Sadly I broke my hippo...

Smashed that little sucker into oblivion one day...

[Posteritatis]

148. I saw a scaled-up version of that in an arcade last week

That made me doubletake.

[aquart]

16. Me! Me!

I once got five sets of Tiddly Winks for Christmas. I don't know why. I was very young.

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Chutes and Ladders. Jacks. Paddle Ball. Authors.

Nope, I'm not old enough to remember Tiddley Winks. :-)

[The empressof all]

18. Any Stoop Ball players?

And what were the rules on your block?

[madmom]

20. My hubbies favor terms when asked what he's doing is..

playing tiddley winks with manhole covers and jerking off spiders with tweezers. I was always partial to jacks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. aggies......

and Parcheesi
and cap guns
and a real Davy Crockett hat
and seriusly trying to kill my brother when he cheated at Monopoly...

I was a tomboy...

[carlyhippy]

26. ahh, the smell from the spent caps from a cap gun

I used to get the web of skin between my thumb and 1st finger pinched in my cap pistol somehow, I can still feel it. :(

[ConcernedCanuk]

54. I remember having the "revolver" kind with the roll of 100 "caps"

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sometimes we'd tear the roll up in 4-5 "cap" bits, fold them all together

put them on a rock and hit them with a hammer

BANG!~!

used to scare the crap out of our mother -

it sorta wasn't allowed??

go figure.. .

[trof]

86. We'd whack the entire roll. Quite a BANG!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

93. I did that too!

For some unknown reason, my dad had a 16-pound sledgehammer in our garage Drop that sucker on a roll of caps (or a BOX) of caps and you got a hell of a satisfying explosion.

[ConcernedCanuk]

50. Ahh - you must be my long lost sister . . .

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and I remember everything in this thread plus . .



and etch a sketch

[dweller]

24. anyone ever played baseball card baseball?

i think my kid brother made it up, he collected the cards, i played along.
We set up a diamond on the floor with cards of the players set up standing with whatever we could find to hold the card. I pitched with a pitcher card a marble over the 'plate', if he missed and i hit the catcher it was a strike.
All he had to do is hit the marble with his batter card and not knock down a fielder card and run around on his knees with his card over the bases we had set up on the floor. I had to scoot around and flip the marble back at the baseman card and knock it over ...

sounds like a lot of trouble to play a game. But we played this alot as kids. Just baseball cards and a marble.
of course he ended up collecting cards worth $$, and all i got are the memories of him trying to hit a triple with a piece of cardboard with a grinning baseball player on it.

kids will create a world from an empty box. And we age and end up living in them.
says alot
dp

[ConcernedCanuk]

55. never did that, but we used to pitch cards toward the school wall

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the closest one would get to keep both cards

I bet I lost half a million dollars in collectible cards

Imagine what the baseball and hockey cards I threw away AND clothes-pegged to my bicycle frame to go cliketty-clack in the spokes would be worth today

wow

if we only knew back in the 50's . . .

AND COMIC BOOKS!

sheesh

I was THAT close to being a millionaire . . .

[dixiegrrrrl]

110. We moved...a lot.. and Mom would throw all the comic books away each move.

ALL of them.
We are talking 1955 and up....

We hated her.

When we got older and realized the value of the baseball cards and games and comic books and my ORIGINAL collection of OZ books, I really was pissed.

[salguine]

25. That takes me back. This is me and my friends...

...playing "the stick-ball".

[dweller]

32. i give

you _are_ old...

love the peanut gallery and pep squad in that photo.
dp

[BuyingThyme]

27. Me.

Pogs be damned.

[rainbow4321]

28. How 'bout Chinese Checkers?

Mine didn't have all the fancy Chinese symbols on it like the one below, but it was made of tin like this one, the lid was the "board", and you could open it up and store the marbles in it.

[ConcernedCanuk]

56. OH yeah - did them too

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We didn't even have a Television in our house until I was 11

and then we were only allowed one hour A WEEK!

That would be the Ed Sullivan Show

When I was 12 - we boosted it to TWO hours a week

That would be Bonanza - I can still visualize the flame burning from the centre of the map of the Ponderosa . .

There were six of us kids, so board games and outside stuff occupied us more than TV ever did

And I've returned to that sorta, only had a brief usage of a television for 3 months in the last 5 years

Don't miss it too much either

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

96. I had that very Chinese Checkers set

when I was a wee lad. Loved to play that game.

[Maru Kitteh]

29. I never had tiddly winks, but I did have pick-up sticks.

[Wiley50]

31. For that matter, what about "Mumbley Pegs"

it was played with a pocket knife

You whittled a little peg and hammered it into the ground with the butt of the knife

Then, resting the point of the knife on the tip of your finger, you had to

flip the knife so it turned a sequence of flips before sticking in the ground

loser had to pull the peg out of the ground with his teeth

Hence, "Mumble the Peg"

We were impoverished up here in the hills

[alfredo]

104. It wasn't just the finger, but the elbow, nose, knee, etc.

[HughMoran]

35. I liked it

pop!

[grasswire]

36. Love tiddlywinks. Remember "Authors"?

And of course "Flinch" and "Mille Bornes" and that one where you trade commodities -- Oats, Barley, etc.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. Well it could also mean this

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

:-)

[tabbycat31]

40. I'm 28 and remember that game

[Venceremos]

41. Tiddly winks and pick up stix

those were two of my family's favorite games. And don't forget Jarts - those dangerously sharp and large lawn darts.

[MarianJack]

42. Up here in Vassalboro Maine...

...a topless coffee shop just opened.

I'll guess that there are a lot of "tittylewinks" going on in there!

For that one, I'll give MYself a big :spank: !

[NoSheep]

43. It's actually quite difficult...nice!

[illuminaughty]

44. You have just reminded me of an "I'm so old" moment.

Remember when Mr. Potato Head made a comeback? I believe after Toy Story. I was telling my teenage students (dance studio) that the first Mr. Potato Head didn't come with the body and you had to supply the potato. They looked at me like I'd lost it.

Honest to God, they did not know that it was called Mr. Potato Head because we originally used a REAL potato. Took a long time to convince them I wasn't kidding.

[sufrommich]

130. lol. nt

[Adsos Letter]

45. Jacks!

...oh man, kneel on one of those suckers sometime... :(

[uppityperson]

46. Space Trainer. Does anyone remember these?

We had one and eventually had to put a limit of 20 forward and 20 backward then switch, so everyone got turns.

[dysfunctional press]

49. i have a friend who collects tiddly-winks games...

he has a few from the very early 1900's, if not even earlier. he has well over a hundred of them.

[SoCalDem]

51. I was deadly at pick up sticks & jacks.. Oooh how I loved to play jacks

and when I was a kid, we had monopoly games hat would last for DAYS.. we all had our one envelope, and would write on one of them, whose turn it was, and where on the board everyone was:)

[ConcernedCanuk]

57. yup yup and yup

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Monopoly for days - oh yeah - and don't dare touch the board overnight . .

there were 4 of us kids within 3 years of each other - so we were a "gang" sorta

board games were constant - I don't see ANY in this thread that we didn't have and utilize

I barely remember jacks , , little X thingies come to mind tho

pick up sticks - yup we'd play that on a regular basis

I should just make a list sometime

just a few for now

Scrabble
Monopoly
Snakes and Ladders
Chess
Checkers (including Chines Checkers -marbles)
Card Games from Fish to Bridge
Mecanno building sets
Have Gun Will Travel belt/holster cap guns
Marbles - digging wee holes in the schoolyard . . .
ping-pong
tennis
pool (yeah we had a pool table in one house)
baseball
football
skating/hockey
swimming
boating/canoing/sailing


wow - just realizing how many things my parents taught me how to enjoy!

and the above is a SHORT LIST

Thanks ma and pa!

[SoCalDem]

59. Parcheesi..I still have my set..and my monopoly game i got

for my 8th birthday at the Ft. Clayton BX.. our PX ran out, so we drove to the army base to buy it.. the price tag's still on it.. $2.45..my boys alwaysd laughed at me for keeping that old set..wooden houses & hotels :)

[ConcernedCanuk]

61. I gotta ask - why you have all those pics of Bobby Jindal in your sig line

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??

[SoCalDem]

70. from his speech the other night..

:rofl:

[ConcernedCanuk]

97. Ya know who he reminds me of?

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this guy !!!!

[PatSeg]

58. Ah, yes

I remember very well. I'll ask my grown children if they know what they are. I'm quite sure they know pick-up-sticks. Cooties, I remember cooties, but don't recall now how we played the game.

[Sal Minella]

74. Was that the bugs with body, head, antennae, legs loose in the box and you had to roll

the dice to get the body parts to complete your bug -- think you had to roll a "one" to get the body to start with, and sometimes that took forever. My dad would play that with me after working a 12-hour day in the drugstore.

Have been trying to think of the name of the bug-parts game and I think it was "Cootie." Came out about the same time as Mister Potato Head, as I remember.

[carlyhippy]

77. that is the cooties game.

My kids had that game, along with ants in the pants game, Mr potatohead, don't break the ice, don't spill the beans...they were all games that came out in the 60's-70's and made a comeback in the 90's I guess.

[pipi_k]

88. This reminds me of a story....

One year when my daughter was very young...maybe six or so, she got that game for her birthday.

A few days later we went to visit my sister, who worked as a waitress in a local diner.

So we walk in at lunchtime...the place is packed...and my daughter sees my sister and yells out at the top of her voice:


"Guess what Auntie ___________! I got COOTIES for my birthday!!!!"


OMG I didn't know whether to laugh or go slinking out the back door....


:7

[carlyhippy]

89. LOL!

Carly

[PatSeg]

125. Oh how funny!

Of course everyone knows that BOYS had cooties, not girls!!!

[PatSeg]

124. I had Cooties

in the 50's (the game, not the parasites).

[PatSeg]

123. That's the one

I can still picture it. What a strange idea for a game - bug parts!

[PatSeg]

128. Cooties by Hasbro

The original build a Cootie bug game!

You've got Cooties! Aren't they cute? Kooky and colorful-what a hoot! Start with a body, a head, and a hat. Lickin' lips, antennae, twirly tongue...look at that! Hundreds of ways to build 'em. They're never the same. Finish your Cootie first- and you win the game!

No Reading Required.

http://www.boardgames.com/cootie.html

[H2O Man]

60. I do.

Spent a lot of time playing that game.

[LeftishBrit]

62. Oh yes, used to play it a lot as a child!

Though my favourite game was Yahtzee. Anyone else play that?

[Cerridwen]

63. What?! No one's mentioned "Lincoln Logs"?

Oh, the humanity.

"Chatty Cathy"
"The Game of 'Life'"
"Risk"
Badmitton
Roller skating
peddle cars
"Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots"
"Battleship!"
Canasta (Yeah, we played Canasta as kids. My dad cheated. LOL)
"Aggravation"
"Old Maid"
Hearts
Spades
Hula Hoops
Jump rope
Chinese jump rope

M'kay. Feeling old. *sigh*

[4lbs]

64. I never played Tiddlywinks, but saw it being played in the movie

"The Quiet Man".

I have though, played some of the older games, like jacks and pick-up-stix.

I also had an erector set, and Lincoln Logs.

There were also Legos (and their ripoff Brix Blox).

This was one of my favorites:




My father also bought me one of these from Radio Shack:

[Buns_of_Fire]

73. I had one of those Electronic Project Kits! And multiple chemistry sets, too!

My aunts and uncles kept buying them for me. I don't know why -- all I ever managed to do was gunk up the test tubes, smell up the house, and turn the porcelain in the bathroom sink permanently black.

Thankfully, I had much better luck with my EZ-Bake Oven. Until I ran out of the stuff they supplied you to cook, and turned it into a sauna for my G.I. Joe (so he could recuperate after being run over multiple times by my Lionel O-Gauge train set).

[nookiemonster]

146. Holy Crap!! I loved Science Fair kits!!

Especially the "150 in one". The only thing that sucked, was when you lost all of your long wires and had to join a bunch of short ones to get the damn thing to work.

Spent hours with that thing.

:)

[madokie]

65. Remember jacks

http://www.ehow.com/how_2964_play-jacks.html

I haven't seen any in years but used to play.

[sweetpotato]

69. Tinker Toys were on my favorites list

Loved getting the BIG barrel of tinker toys for Christmas. So much fun.

[FirstLight]

134. OMG! yes!

Tinker toys, the REAL ones made out of wood and sticks...

I used to play for hours, building houses for my barbies out of Tinker toys, legos and anything else I could find (the roll from the paper towels, etc) Then I'd get all upset if the barbie was too heavy to lay in the "bed" i had made...

ya, good times... I miss the 70's sometimes....

[Are_grits_groceries]

71. Candyland!

We also played a game called "half rubber." NOT what you think.

You cut a rubber ball in half and use a broom handle as a bat. There is a pitcher, catcher and a batter.
If you can hit playing that game, you can handle a lot in baseball.

[ncteechur]

72. Kerplunk!

[Bandit]

75. How about mumbly-peg, ever play that?

Talk about old as dirt...

[tangent90]

76. I bet lots of kids don't know what hopscotch is either

:D

[ConcernedCanuk]

141. I remember - but then again - I'm not a kid anymore

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But I bet I could still do the sidewalk dance!

one foot here - two feet there - and so on

yeah

memories . . .

[malaise]

78. We played both

And magic robot, ludo, jacks, checkers, snakes and ladders. Scrabble and monopoly survive.

added jacks and checkers

[pipi_k]

81. Hah! I used to play Cowboys n' Indians with dinosaurs!!!

er...not really :7


but we did play with these:

[bikebloke]

82. Don't forget Lego

Though my building career started with Lincoln logs. There was also something else with blocks and circular pieces of wood drilled for slender dowels. You could build molecular model looking things.

And balsa wood gliders. Though you were stepping up with one with a rubber band propellor.

And running around playing army, with everyone hamming up to see who could "die" the coolest.

[Posteritatis]

147. Agh, lego. Now I'm remembering losing my collection

We had a ten-gallon bucket of the things when I was a kid but somehow lost them along the way. I keep considering buying some again on principle - everyone should have legos, goddammit! - but it's hard to find a pile of generic bricks instead of the bazillion-dollar licensed sets. Wah.

And running around playing army, with everyone hamming up to see who could "die" the coolest.

There's an occasional casual fencing tournament in my neck of the woods. Bunch of normal competition-fencing style events, and then the fun stuff (draw a handicap out of a hat, duel events in a circular piste, etc). They gave gag awards for people who got into the spirit of things, like the Order of the Silver Tongue for the best midmatch repartee, and the Order of the Sliced Ham for anyone who really overdid it acknowledging a hit.

[Lost in CT]

83. Yes I do... the joys of having Grandparents...

I also know what a hot water bottle is and a "record" player which is like an old fashioned CD player but they are bigger and more fragile and make of used tires or something.

[pipi_k]

85. My of my best memories of going to my grandparents' house

is playing in the back hallway with my grandmother's peg-style clothespins that she kept in a basket. They became horses and people and fences and all sorts of things...

Then I would go into her "parlor" and lie on the daybed and look up at the ceiling, which had lots of angles because the room was more or less octagonal...the ceiling was white and quite ornate....moldings and stuff hanging off of it.

There was an old piano in that room, and we were allowed to play "songs" on it.


Sometimes I bemoan the fact that we didn't have all the same electronic toys and gadgets back then that the kids have now, but we had something much better, I think...

the chance to imagine

:)

[OwnedByFerrets]

84. I have NO proof of this, but I believe its the reason

that (my) generation had more imagination than the kids of today. That probably makes me an "ole foggie" even though I like to think of myself otherwise.

[Sal Minella]

95. I wonder if any kids now ever just lie in the grass and watch the clouds move.

I'm afraid today's version of "Go outside and play" (i.e. get out of my sight) is buying them computers and TVs for their bedrooms.

With neighbors not looking out for neighbors' kids so much anymore, that's the best way to keep them safe.

[rvablue]

121. Also, watching "Finding Nemo" or "Shrek" on the car DVD player instead of gazing out

the window on long car trips and just thinking.

[ConcernedCanuk]

129. We used to play "I spy" while driving down the road on our yearly camping holiday trips

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"I spy, with my little eye, something that is _____________ "

4 kids in a car for hundreds of miles a day - we hadda do something besides fight with each other . .

Remember that?

and most of the time it could be guessed within 20 questions - or was that the name of the game even?

I haven't played that game for over 4 decades - so it's sorta foggy

But we used to play that little mind game for HOURS!

[PatSeg]

139. We used to play twenty questions

around the dinner table after we ate. On trips we had all kinds of games we would play. One involved license plates, but can't remember the details anymore.

Why take a family trip by car, if the kids are just going to do the same things in the car that they do at home?

[ConcernedCanuk]

140. Why take a family trip by car? - well we headed down to the East coast every summer

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camping along the way whenever we found a nice spot

and occasionally get motel rooms if the weather was pouring rain on us so badly that putting up our tents would have just been miserable

Dad made a good living - but we lived frugally -

and actually - we never played the 20 questions/Spy with my little eye sorta games at home, just while traveling between campsites

sorta had to be there I guess . .

[PatSeg]

144. Those family trips

were some of my best childhood memories. We didn't need to be entertained every second. The idea was to get away from every day life, not take it with us.

The car games were very relaxing and served as a bond for us as a family. AND camping was the best!

I know exactly what you're talking about. I've been there too.

[FirstLight]

135. I know I have taught MY kids how to do that

WE love to lay on the grass and look at shapes in the clouds.
Their idea of go out to play is climbing the tree in the front yard, or helping the neighbor wash his car for a dollar...
It is SO awesome to see at least "some" of the old school stuff that they know how to do... but still, they also know how to be electronics zombies too!

[OwnedByFerrets]

138. That is great FirstLight!!! Keep it up.

[Sal Minella]

151. Good! I've been a cloudwatcher all my life and recommend it highly.

Scientific tests have proved that watching aquariums lowers blood pressure, and I'm sure cloudwatching does too.

[pipi_k]

87. Oh, thought of more! Anyone ever play

"kick the can"?


How about "make a pile of autumn leaves and jump in it"?


We used to have (seasonal) crabapple wars with the kids on the other side of the street


Snow forts and igloos in the winter


oh lord, what bittersweet memories....

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

101. Boot hockey (played in the street with

hockey sticks and a tennis ball) was popular up here when I was about 12-14.

[dixiegrrrrl]

113. Sword ferns.....and chinaberries...

Sword ferns get about 4 feet tall, and thick as your little finger, and if you strip the leaves off, you got a spear, the ground end is a bit knobby and heavy, great balance. You could throw them a respectable distance. Usually aimed for someone's back.
We learned to duck very nicely.
china berries you just pegged at someone by the fistfull.

Oh, yeah, and when the city cousins came to visit, we would talk them into grabbing hold of the stinging nettle bushes.

We were mean. Inventive, but mean.

[librechik]

90. Nobody's mentioned Four Square

bouncy ball game played out on the school blacktop where they painted four connected squares, each about 8 ft sq, and 4 kids would bounce and receive the ball to each other. One was the server, that one tried to put the ball in your square someplace it would be hard to get to an bounce back properly. Sort of like tennis. And if you missed, you would drop out and be replaced by a new kid. I actually liked that game, and I HATED dodgeball.

[saltpoint]

91. It was a fun thing, TiddlyWinks.

Would that more people played it across generations.

It hurts my feelings that it's fallen into obscurity.

[trof]

92. 'Sledding' on a steep grassy hill.

Any time we got ahold of a large piece of cardboard.

[pipi_k]

99. OMG you did that too?

When I was a young teenager, I would walk with two of my friends down a set of railroad tracks to what all the kids called "the trestle"...a concrete bridge that cars drove over and the train went under. Kids hung out there all the time.

We would bring pieces of cardboard with us and slide down the grassy hill beneath the trestle until the train came. It was a slow-moving local train so we were relatively safe.


Another fun grass thing we did involved a place in a local park known in the late 60s as "Hippie Hill" because it attracted hippie types and there were occasionally concerts.

The hill was VERY steep and ended in a few shallow lily ponds at the bottom.

We would start at the top and literally roll down the hill. The trick was to avoid rolling into one of the ponds...

:)

[DemoTex]

100. Ah, for childhood again!

We wish it away .. always wishing to be older for some confounded reason or another. George Bernard Shaw was right: Youth is wasted on the young.

[ConcernedCanuk]

115. Youth is wasted on the young. -well sorta - I'm gonna build me a sandbox at my next domain

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Why not?

I loved my first one!!

and I betcha I can build a bigger and better one than my Daddy did in the 50's

oh yeah

I'll have lights and a beer cooler nearby !!

But thanks to my Dad that built us kids one in the 50's, right beside what we called a "Jungle Gym" - a climbing thing that we banged our heads on, sprained our limb and had FUN doing it!

OH yeah - he built that too

Dad was a "kid" person - right up until he passed away

I'm gonna be young like he was

Father's BODY got old

His spirit didn't

yea Dad!!

[DemoTex]

127. Portrait of a child in a sandbox:

[alfredo]

103. Hide the Salami was a favorite with some of the older kids.

[givemebackmycountry]

105. You are TERRIBLE!

And also VERY funny.

:rofl: :fistbump: :rofl:

[alfredo]

109. Thanks.

[ConcernedCanuk]

112. Still is . . . . .

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:evilgrin:

[yy4me]

106. I gave a set to my grandchildren this past Christmas. They are

still available in the little red cardboard box, looks just like the set I had as a kid. Believe it or not, the set was $5.98 an our local toy store. The shop has all kinds of repro's of old toys like tiddlywinks. Great place. As much fun for me to look as it is to buy these old time, non-electronic- toys for the children. The kids thought it was great.

AS a bonus, I still have my marbles from when I was a kid(1940's), can't remember how to play. For some reason, the marbles were not thrown away when my mother did a major clean out of my stuff when I left for college. I never got over that. All my souvenirs from my youth gone because she wanted to neaten up things. My favorite doll as a kid, my Toni Doll went out too.

[Stevenmarc]

107. It's beer pong without the buzz

[ConcernedCanuk]

111. AND remember Crokinole??

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Wow - I remember having sore fingernails from that



and in high school,

we used to do it with pennies on our lunch tables

This thread is bring back SO many youthful memories

Good on ya! :thumbsup:

[GoCubsGo]

116. That reminds me of "Battling Tops"

Now, THAT was a fun game!

[acmavm]

114. Wow! What brought that up? Anyway, remember jacks? I was great at

playing jacks. And it was great for hand/eye coordination.

[MasonJar]

117. I definitely played Tiddlywinks and Pick Up Sticks as a kid many, many years ago.

[Critters2]

118. My gandparents had this great game board that had a tiddlywinks

board, and a bunch of other game scoring boards all rolled into one...and carom pockets. I think it had been my dad's and my aunt's when they were kids. We really did have hours of fun with it.

[handmade34]

119. great memories

tiddlywinks, jacks, rolling down grassy hills- I was at the park this morning and saw a young'un do it... I was outside constantly climbing trees and resting in the grass watching the cloud shapes.... went for long walks with my grandmother.. we didn't have TV until I was 9 or so.... I still like to climb trees at almost 60

[MrsBrady]

120. oh the stories!!!

Tiddlywinks was a contact sport at my grandmother's house!!!

[BlooInBloo]

126. Why would anybody expect a teenager to be familiar with this?

[FirstLight]

136. I wasn't "expecting it"...just shocked at how OLD I felt when I realized he had no clue!

But this thread has been a good walk own memory lane and it is cool to see that alot of things my kids still DO - Jacks, trouble, cards, yard playing, redlight/greenlight, etc...

I miss being a kid too sometimes, I wonder how I can stil feel so young mentally and yet feel so old physicaly!

[mwooldri]

137. In Autumn, we played conkers

Nuts from horse chestnut trees, put on a piece of string. We then take turns at smashing each others nuts off the piece of string. If we wanted to be mean, we'd treat our conkers in something to make them harder to smash.

Mark.

[ConcernedCanuk]

142. "smashing each others nuts " - wow you Brits are vicious!!

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How did you ever lose the colonies ?

:silly:

[mwooldri]

145. Yep, even the girls had nuts...

after all if you planted a conker and tended to it for many years...

you could have a nice tree!

[Greyhound]

150. I have to admit that it was my great grandmother that showed me this game. Here's another one...

Ah, the smell of Lincoln Logs...

[Horse with no Name]

158. Don't smell them these days

they are made in China.:(

[Greyhound]

159. Eew! Stinky Lincoln Logs? n/t

:kick:

[Ferret Annica]

153. I haven't played Tiddley Winks for decades

Gad, hey thanks for making me feel ancient. ;)

[AZBlue]

154. I could never do tiddly winks very well - but I loved jacks and pick-up sticks.

[Sal Minella]

155. Krazy Ikes!!! Took me this long to remember the name.

Assorted heads and bodies and bits that snapped together -- mine (in the late
'forties) were made of wood, not plastic, and made charming critters to play with.

[Horse with no Name]

157. I remember when I was in the First Grade (circa 1968)

and the little old lady next door watched us until our Mom got home from work. Her name was Gracie.
She must have been 90.
Everyday we sat on her back porch and played Yahtzee and ate home baked cookies and milk.
I wish kids now had the luxury of those kinds of memories.:(