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"Use to play British bulldog when I was a child. Doubt it would be allowed now with health and safety. "
Same here but I also think they would not allow it too much physical contact especially if girls were involved |
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By (user no longer on site) 36 weeks ago
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"Use to play British bulldog when I was a child. Doubt it would be allowed now with health and safety.
Same here but I also think they would not allow it too much physical contact especially if girls were involved"
I agree with that. Guess we were more innocent at that age and never looked at it as a contact game. |
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By (user no longer on site) 36 weeks ago
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"Use to play British bulldog when I was a child. Doubt it would be allowed now with health and safety. "
This was always banned in our primary school. The rumour spread on the playground it was because a kid died from it… which we all obviously believed. |
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"Use to play British bulldog when I was a child. Doubt it would be allowed now with health and safety.
This was always banned in our primary school. The rumour spread on the playground it was because a kid died from it… which we all obviously believed. "
I think we believed everything as kids. So gullible  |
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"Use to play British bulldog when I was a child. Doubt it would be allowed now with health and safety.
This was always banned in our primary school. The rumour spread on the playground it was because a kid died from it… which we all obviously believed. "
We had that banned too. So we replaced it with legups same rules, but you get booted to the ground instead. They just kind of gave up on us after that.
I don't think anyone died there were a couple of ambulance incidents. |
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By (user no longer on site) 36 weeks ago
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"Use to play British bulldog when I was a child. Doubt it would be allowed now with health and safety.
This was always banned in our primary school. The rumour spread on the playground it was because a kid died from it… which we all obviously believed.
We had that banned too. So we replaced it with legups same rules, but you get booted to the ground instead. They just kind of gave up on us after that.
I don't think anyone died there were a couple of ambulance incidents. "
Sounds a lot worse than Bulldog. Plenty of grazed knees! |
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"Hedge hopping.
Loved that, we called it grand national we called it grand national to about 15 of us doing it and always one fell in the garden pond great times though"
Ha ha yeah and even more fun to do it at night |
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By *glyBettyTV/TS 36 weeks ago
Sitting on the table |
"44 see ya"
I find the regional differences in names & rules for these games fascinating.
Down south we had 2 variants of this...."40 40 Home" & "Run outs"
They're both essentially the same game, except our particular version of 40 40 didn't require the "it" person to tag/touch anyone, just seeing them was enough, but they weren't allowed to just hang around the home base (which we called "cat-guarding").
Run outs however did require a tag, which rendered the guarding strategy ineffective. |
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By *4bimMan 36 weeks ago
Farnborough Hampshire |
cowboys and indians.
someone will say shouldnt play with guns toy or real and call the police.
the other will say painting your face is racist and they will call the police as its now a hate crime. |
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Climbing trees.
BUNDLE!
bushing someone,not really a game but was definitely something that happened a lot pushing a mate into a bush usually a thorn bush.
Making a "scrambler" bike out of a regular one by the removal of just about everything surplus to requirements and using it as a dirt bike for jump's and gnarly trick's like bunny hopping up a kerb 
Kick the can.
Trousering(de bagging)
Playing pirates at school. |
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"44 see ya,, i havent heard of that one,,"
One person was 'It' and the others were hiders. It stays at the home base, e.g. a tree and counts to 44 with eyes shut (supposedly). Everyone else runs of and hides. Once It has counted to 44, they call out 'coming ready or not' and goes off to find the hiders. If It sees a hider they run back to home and try to touch the tree. The hider also races back and tries to touch the tree before It. Any of the other hiders can also chance their luck and try and get back to the tree even when not spotted. At some point, It will call out '44 seen ya', but I can't remember if it's when someone is spotted, or if its when they touch the tree.
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"44 see ya,, i havent heard of that one,,
One person was 'It' and the others were hiders. It stays at the home base, e.g. a tree and counts to 44 with eyes shut (supposedly). Everyone else runs of and hides. Once It has counted to 44, they call out 'coming ready or not' and goes off to find the hiders. If It sees a hider they run back to home and try to touch the tree. The hider also races back and tries to touch the tree before It. Any of the other hiders can also chance their luck and try and get back to the tree even when not spotted. At some point, It will call out '44 seen ya', but I can't remember if it's when someone is spotted, or if its when they touch the tree.
Anyone fancy a game? "
Im sure we just called it " it" your absolutely right about suposedly closing eyes and counting though, we played it on the street, lamposts instead of trees, same great fun, its shame you dont see kids playing like that now |
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Poo sticks. No not the boring one where you lob a stick under a bridge a race your friends' ones.
No, the one where you stick a stick (or a lollypop stick from a Cider Barrel) into a piece of dog turd and try to get him with it.
Not poodle shit though. |
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"44 see ya,, i havent heard of that one,,
One person was 'It' and the others were hiders. It stays at the home base, e.g. a tree and counts to 44 with eyes shut (supposedly). Everyone else runs of and hides. Once It has counted to 44, they call out 'coming ready or not' and goes off to find the hiders. If It sees a hider they run back to home and try to touch the tree. The hider also races back and tries to touch the tree before It. Any of the other hiders can also chance their luck and try and get back to the tree even when not spotted. At some point, It will call out '44 seen ya', but I can't remember if it's when someone is spotted, or if its when they touch the tree.
Anyone fancy a game? "
we use to call that hide and seek.could never play that now where i live to many cars on the road plus all the back alleys have gates on them now |
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By (user no longer on site) 35 weeks ago
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"Name a game you played when you was a kid you never see kids playing nowadays.there will be plenty il start with cricket or football in the street or back alleys "
I love playing in the back alley  |
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"Name a game you played when you was a kid you never see kids playing nowadays.there will be plenty il start with cricket or football in the street or back alleys
I love playing in the back alley "
same here we played cricket football tennis in the back alley near us was ok until the ball went over in someones garden 99 per cent was ok they didnt mind you retrivieng your ball but you always had one whod wait in the back garden and either keep your ball or pop it. |
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I think this is a tell of the kind of place I’m from. We used to play a game called German Bastards. Not sure if anybody has heard of it but I had a lot of questions off my mum going in covered in bruises  oops |
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By (user no longer on site) 35 weeks ago
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"Hedge hopping.
Now that is a trip down memory lane. Got some hilarious memories hedge hopping.
Harmless fun until you land in someone’s garden with a big dog haha "
I use to laugh so much doing this.Some times my legs couldn't carry me. |
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By *nnCeeWoman 35 weeks ago
East of Eden, West of Hell |
Used to play 40-40 with the kids who lived near me.
Or Foxes, Horses and Hounds. Bit like Bulldog, there'd be a 'catcher' in middle of the space and one kid would shout either 'Foxes!' and try to make it to the other side of the space by themselves; 'Horses!' and name another kid to run with, or 'Hounds!' and everyone would run. Anyone who was caught, then became a catcher. First person to be caught was the catcher in the next round. The winner was the last kid to be caught.
Hated it, as I was a little fat kid who didn't run very fast. I was always first to be caught.
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That or we'd just scoot round on our bikes, and make up little games, or pretend we were doing stuff, like going on holiday. We'd ride round the block, and when we got back to base, we'd be at our destination...
The joy of imagination in kids... |
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By *ezoMan 35 weeks ago
The Kingdom |
"Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition.
cant believe that the 6th edition of D&D is launching soon. I feel so old "
Ah the old red box. Was my first introduction to D&D games, well I did watch the cartoon first.  |
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"44 see ya,, i havent heard of that one,,
One person was 'It' and the others were hiders. It stays at the home base, e.g. a tree and counts to 44 with eyes shut (supposedly). Everyone else runs of and hides. Once It has counted to 44, they call out 'coming ready or not' and goes off to find the hiders. If It sees a hider they run back to home and try to touch the tree. The hider also races back and tries to touch the tree before It. Any of the other hiders can also chance their luck and try and get back to the tree even when not spotted. At some point, It will call out '44 seen ya', but I can't remember if it's when someone is spotted, or if its when they touch the tree.
Anyone fancy a game? we use to call that hide and seek.could never play that now where i live to many cars on the road plus all the back alleys have gates on them now"
Hide-and-seek seek is different as you don't have to run back to the base before the person that you have found. |
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French cricket - protecting your legs from being hit by the ball (you're out if it does). Any number of players around the batter, who have to throw the ball from where its stopped after being hit. |
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"44 see ya,, i havent heard of that one,,
One person was 'It' and the others were hiders. It stays at the home base, e.g. a tree and counts to 44 with eyes shut (supposedly). Everyone else runs of and hides. Once It has counted to 44, they call out 'coming ready or not' and goes off to find the hiders. If It sees a hider they run back to home and try to touch the tree. The hider also races back and tries to touch the tree before It. Any of the other hiders can also chance their luck and try and get back to the tree even when not spotted. At some point, It will call out '44 seen ya', but I can't remember if it's when someone is spotted, or if its when they touch the tree.
Anyone fancy a game? we use to call that hide and seek.could never play that now where i live to many cars on the road plus all the back alleys have gates on them now
Hide-and-seek seek is different as you don't have to run back to the base before the person that you have found."
so that game 44 see you.i think we use to call that manhunt round our way. |
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By *a LunaWoman 35 weeks ago
South Wales |
Statues. Where someone stands with back to you and you had to get as close to them without them seeing you?
Also that elastic band trend that went around the ankles and someone jumped in and out?
No idea of proper names. |
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By *nnCeeWoman 34 weeks ago
East of Eden, West of Hell |
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Also that elastic band trend that went around the ankles and someone jumped in and out?"
French Skipping.
We used to play this.
And actual skipping, with the long tope (or lump of washing line). Sometimes with double ropes. They were difficult to jump in and out of! |
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