School yard games

[George 1978]

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nar that presupposes that I could write

That explains it.

[80sChav]

Either it was like Footy, Footy, Footy all the way 90 to 95% of the time or Hopscotch etc with different Sqaures in early Primary or Tag in in Middle Primary years to later ones

A silly game tbh as you never knew if you was "on" or "off" in it after the tag bit as like early Football when it began in the 1880s about half a million different version of the rules existed with different kids

[andrec]

I remember a game we would play in junior school in the early 70s. So we stood in line facing a wall. Someone else acted as quizmaster and asked a question, usually something like 'Who sang...' They would then say 'go' and we would run to the wall, touch it, then run back to where we started, turn and run and touch the wall again. The first to touch the wall would get to answer the question. If they were wrong then the second to touch would answer it. Whomever answered correctly would then act as quizmaster for the next question.

[HG]

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I loved that game with the long loop of elastic - also skipping, Bulldog, Blocky 123, kiss catch , and one where you all linked up in a line and flew round the playground - whipping the one at the end virtually into the air LOL!

But most of my games were imagination-based, we'd "pretend" we were various things, like horses, homeless people (lol), witches, animals, grown-ups(!)

Also loved playing on my space hopper thing - it looked like the planet Saturn and you bounced up and down on it (until some horrible kid nicked it! ), and a rubber ball on a plastic line that went round your ankle and you spun/hopped over it...

Oops sorry...does this count as a life story??

Resurrecting this old thread, I was just talking with my 8 year old about games I used to play as a child and Blocky123 came up. Did anyone else play it and does anyone know where it originated? I have a feeling it could be Why Don't You but I'm not certain.

[Istvan]

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I suppose that you were inside writing lines rather playing school yard games considering your previous posts!

nar that presupposes that I could write

[George 1978]

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I heard that too, but it never had any effect on me

I suppose that you were inside writing lines rather playing school yard games considering your previous posts!

[Istvan]

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A few days ago it was reported heading footballs could develop result in brain damage later in life

I heard that too, but it never had any effect on me

[Istvan]

Re: School yard games

A few days ago it was reported heading footballs could develop result in brain damage later in life

I heard that too, but it never had any effect on me

[Istvan]

Re: School yard games

A few days ago it was reported heading footballs could develop result in brain damage later in life

I heard that too, but it never had any effect on me

[Istvan]

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when I went to school I had to walk and it was three miles each way, up-hill in both directions, boy was I annoyed when I found out that there was another school in the next street to our house.

[Istvan]

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In the seventies when we used to play conkers if it was your mate we used to deliberately hit them on their hand or knuckles


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yeah tame stuff then, it was even better if we could get a ball-bearing and disguise it as a conker, then it really hurt when one hit them on the head, we was hard kids back then, at our school if they like you, they let you live and that was only the dinner ladies, the teachers were worse, firework night we didn't have a Guy, we used the teacher's pet

[Zincubus]

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back in the 1940's, my school days, we were a tough lot, we played "Dodging the bombs", "Conkers" only we played by hitting the other guy on the head with our conker, for Halloween we played "Bobbing for chips" like "Bobbing for Apples" only one had to pick up the chips out of the hot fat, with our mouth, we was a tough lot in a rough area, if you saw a dog with both ears he was a visitor, even the police cars went around in pairs.
I went a very good school, not just anyone could go there, you had to be sent by a judge or a magistrate.
Oh yes football, we didn't use jumpers for goal posts, we used the smallest kids, we nailed their feet to the ground, at parties we played "Pass the parcel" With a hand-grenade, to make it more interesting, we would pull out the pin.

In the seventies when we used to play conkers if it was your mate we used to deliberately hit them on their hand or knuckles


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[Istvan]

Re: School yard games

back in the 1940's, my school days, we were a tough lot, we played "Dodging the bombs", "Conkers" only we played by hitting the other guy on the head with our conker, for Halloween we played "Bobbing for chips" like "Bobbing for Apples" only one had to pick up the chips out of the hot fat, with our mouth, we was a tough lot in a rough area, if you saw a dog with both ears he was a visitor, even the police cars went around in pairs.
I went a very good school, not just anyone could go there, you had to be sent by a judge or a magistrate.
Oh yes football, we didn't use jumpers for goal posts, we used the smallest kids, we nailed their feet to the ground, at parties we played "Pass the parcel" With a hand-grenade, to make it more interesting, we would pull out the pin.

[Zincubus]

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We had a few ..

You made two sets of goals with 4 jumpers . Each set was about 3 yards from the other and you had one person stood in each goal and tried to score with a header . You threw the ball up high for your header .


We also played split the kipper but not on the school grounds as it was done using a knife of some kind ...




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[Twocky61]

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A few days ago it was reported heading footballs could develop result in brain damage later in life