Childhood games and Playground fun.

[shazrasha]

I had a rather random conversation with K last night about games we used to play as children in the playground. I really have no recollection of how we ended up on that topic, but we did. Two things should be noted about childhood games

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[lucian_albrecht]

That was so not the version of British Bulldog that I avoided like the plague at my school / Scouts. Ours was basically a big fight with the vague 'get to the other side' theme that you recall as 'Bulldog'. It was not really suitable for a, ahem, slightly built, young gentleman such as my younger self.

'Stick In The Mud' we played identically to how you describe it.

"What's the Time Mr Wolf?" and "Mother May I?" I vaguely recall from primary school, although MMI? was definitely a Girl's Game. By high-school, mostly girls didn't play games and the boys generally played a football variant.

There was also the game 'Kiss Chase' in primary school, where the girls would pick a male victim and chase him around, trying to kiss him. They generally stopped doing this by the time the boy would have quite liked being chased my a large number of girls. How strange.

[lucian_albrecht]

I hasten to point out that I very rarely took part in the football, as it was very hard to read Isaac Asimov novels whilst so doing.

[maviscruet]

British Bulldogs.

One person in the middle - everybody else runs past them - that person has to grab and lift people running past. If your lifted off the ground you join the person in the middle lifting.... (Played a lot by my scout group - once dragged the entire troop half the leangth of the hall of avoid being captured).

Warrior and Brigrands.

Two teams - given instructions by somebody (blue team forward 5 paces) and then at some point shouted "fight". Aim to drag people back to your wall and which point you joined ther eteam. Rules are vauge.......

[samanthas]

I think in our version of british buldog everyone ran at once and it was a tag based game. Or was that Swedish longball?

I remember Clockwork Toys. One (nominated) person would say 'Clockwork toys, wind up now!" and the others would pretend to be toys. The speaker had to guess which toys.

Other games I remember are Cat's Cradle (which I only ever knew the first step of), and skipping/hopscotch. Though we never really knew the rules to hopscotch, but we liked to pretend we did, and there was a grid.

Did anyone else play marbles? Conkers? Build snowmen?

Played some of the other ones you mention too.
And I remember kiss chase!

[shazrasha]

I remember playing cats cradle and Almost managing to get the whole way through, that last step always elluded me. Conkers was never an option for us as we didn't have the right kind of tree. Snowmen, I remember one year having a full scale snowball fight on the back of the school. :)

[lucian_albrecht]

And I remember kiss chase!

Oooh, you hussy! ;-)