| School playground games 08:24 - Jul 4 with 12396 views | dmm |
I was thinking about the games we used to play at school. Has there been a thread about this?
I used to love playing 5 jacks
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| School playground games on 07:04 - Jul 6 with 2405 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| School playground games on 22:48 - Jul 4 by loftboy |
There was a street near our school that had about 50 houses each side, each house was divided by a hedge about 3 feet high, we used to do “the grand national” all the way from top to bottom.
One resident (quite rightly) got pîssed off, one day he put a wire up about 6 inches above his hedge, when we all tripped over it he then charged out of his house wielding a set of shears!! |
We also had the ‘Grand National’ as well.
The game started around us when a scouse family moved in and a cousin of theirs visited. Will never forget his name: Kevin Gandy. The funniest, friendliest and most innocuous looking bloke we’d ever encountered, and who got himself into the most awkwardly difficult situations with consummate ease. His reputation somewhat preceded him and we were looking forward to his arrival.
Given the walls and hedges in our street, he suggests we play Grand National. Five houses/fences in, Gandy has fallen and no longer in the running. His cousin fears he might be in trouble, so we double back and find him stuck in a bush, and instead of extracting himself, his efforts seem to be wedging him in more. He also wore bottle top glasses like Sid Little and they were broken and hanging from his face like Eric Morcambe.
The owner comes out somewhat incensed but seeing this pathetic site before him stands watching before asking: ‘What are you doing?’
Gandy replies ‘I lost my glasses in this bush and I’m trying to find them obviously!’
We had a park near us and at opposite sides of it were crab apple trees. Which lead to another game of ‘apple fight’. For the second time in Gandy’s visit south, my scouse mate’s mum had to phone her sister to explain Gandy had been the noticeable and only casualty. Totally incapable of taking protective measures, apples seemed to rain down on him like exorcets.
We also played ‘skids’ on our bikes down a back alley. Gandy, absolute disaster at it. Unable to get the bike’s tyres to do the skidding as opposed to himself. Suffice it to say: hand/foot to eye coordination not quite there, totally effing useless at cricket and football.
We sent him north utterly battered and bruised lad and for his own safety. |  |
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| School playground games on 10:13 - Jul 6 with 2315 views | PunteR |
Mud bombs.
Basically same principle as snowballs but with mud. Digging up part of the grass or other areas of greenery and forming mud balls. |  |
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| School playground games on 12:52 - Jul 6 with 2275 views | RamseyR |
Not exactly in the playground, but my place was really close to the Grand Union canal where Dr Whites had a tampon/towel business.
We used to go through the skips picking out "rejects" and then split into two teams either side of the canal, and then spend ages, dunking them in the water and throwing them at the opposition on the other side |  | | |
| School playground games on 00:46 - Jul 7 with 2198 views | ScubaHoop |
| School playground games on 10:25 - Jul 4 by PlanetHonneywood |
Had - a tag game.
Bulldog - ‘kin ‘ave it!
For the life of me, I can’t recall the name of a game a game we played, which was similar to had, but used a tennis ball. Everyone in a circle, battering the ball between us and whoever’s legs the ball went through, they were ‘it’. Then they would try to hit other players in the leg with the ball. Once you’d been hit with the ball, you then became ’it’. A variation on the game was players hit would join with other players so as to form a team. Last person hit, wins.
Not a school playground game, but kerbs played round my barrio a lot when we were knackered. |
We called it 'Had' too. I make my kids call it that, everyone in their class calls it tag. But I still make them. |  | | |
| School playground games on 12:12 - Jul 7 with 2123 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
Card/sticker swaps
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| School playground games on 12:47 - Jul 7 with 2104 views | DannyPaddox |
| School playground games on 07:04 - Jul 6 by PlanetHonneywood |
We also had the ‘Grand National’ as well.
The game started around us when a scouse family moved in and a cousin of theirs visited. Will never forget his name: Kevin Gandy. The funniest, friendliest and most innocuous looking bloke we’d ever encountered, and who got himself into the most awkwardly difficult situations with consummate ease. His reputation somewhat preceded him and we were looking forward to his arrival.
Given the walls and hedges in our street, he suggests we play Grand National. Five houses/fences in, Gandy has fallen and no longer in the running. His cousin fears he might be in trouble, so we double back and find him stuck in a bush, and instead of extracting himself, his efforts seem to be wedging him in more. He also wore bottle top glasses like Sid Little and they were broken and hanging from his face like Eric Morcambe.
The owner comes out somewhat incensed but seeing this pathetic site before him stands watching before asking: ‘What are you doing?’
Gandy replies ‘I lost my glasses in this bush and I’m trying to find them obviously!’
We had a park near us and at opposite sides of it were crab apple trees. Which lead to another game of ‘apple fight’. For the second time in Gandy’s visit south, my scouse mate’s mum had to phone her sister to explain Gandy had been the noticeable and only casualty. Totally incapable of taking protective measures, apples seemed to rain down on him like exorcets.
We also played ‘skids’ on our bikes down a back alley. Gandy, absolute disaster at it. Unable to get the bike’s tyres to do the skidding as opposed to himself. Suffice it to say: hand/foot to eye coordination not quite there, totally effing useless at cricket and football.
We sent him north utterly battered and bruised lad and for his own safety. |
Great story. Scouse Gandy eh?
This must be him. |  | | |
| School playground games on 12:58 - Jul 7 with 2092 views | WokingR |
| School playground games on 12:52 - Jul 6 by RamseyR |
Not exactly in the playground, but my place was really close to the Grand Union canal where Dr Whites had a tampon/towel business.
We used to go through the skips picking out "rejects" and then split into two teams either side of the canal, and then spend ages, dunking them in the water and throwing them at the opposition on the other side |
Pissing myself at the idea of soggy tampon fights |  | | |
| School playground games on 13:30 - Jul 7 with 2063 views | R_from_afar |
I just remembered that at infants school, there was a daily race to try to be the first through the school gates at home time.
If there had been a ref, I would've got a red card and a three day ban, because one day, I was in second position and literally hauled down the lad in front of me, ripping my shirt and resulting in both of us missing out on a place on the podium. The shame of it  |  |
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| School playground games on 13:39 - Jul 17 with 1725 views | Mwinobog |
Oh, I totally remember playing five jacks at school! It was such a fun game and brought back so many nostalgic memories. We used to sit in a circle during recess and challenge each other to see who could pick up the most jacks in one go. It was all about quick reflexes and hand-eye coordination. Ah, good times! Today, in this digital age, you won't find children playing this. I even used a dice roller online https://flipsimu.com/dice-roller/ to play monopoly with my friends last week! Yeah, it's another age. [Post edited 20 Jul 2023 8:36]
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| School playground games on 14:03 - Jul 17 with 1686 views | loftboy |
We played murder ball,basically in the tennis courts we would kick a ball about, if it hit you below the head or above the knee you got a kick in, nowhere to run, just a case of curling up covering your vitals and taking the beating. |  |
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| School playground games on 14:38 - Jul 17 with 1643 views | robith |
We just unrelentingly played football and its variants all the time.
We were forced to play under head height cos we were smashing windows on the second floor, then got banned altogether as the head was appalled at the level of violence and language he was hearing from 9/10 year old boys. Bereft, the next day we decided to give rugby a go on the tarmac. One hospitalisation and two lads having to go home later, they reluctantly let us have footie back |  | | |
| School playground games on 14:54 - Jul 17 with 1620 views | HAYESBOY |
Not playground but in our street.
Kerbies - Stand either side of the road and with a football throw the ball and try and hit the kerb so the ball would come back to you.
British Bulldog - Classic. We had to carry a kid to the Nurse's room as he was clattered so hard he was out for the count basically. |  |
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| School playground games on 14:58 - Jul 17 with 1609 views | TomS |
Ahh, this thread brings me back in time.
Did anyone play kick the can? The "can" was a lampost in the estate. A couple of kids would play as seekers. Everyone else would run away and hide in front gardens and after a while the seekers would then roam the estate looking for them. If you were spotted, your name was called out along with your hiding place, and you had to go to jail, right beside the lampost. Those who weren't caught were to try and release the prisoners by making a dash to the lampost and kicking it three times while uttering "kick the can 1,2,3". If they were physically caught before they reached the can, they were imprisoned too.
It was great fun, and many ingenious hiding places were found in the estate. I don't think the elder residents minded too much.... |  | | |
| School playground games on 15:53 - Jul 17 with 1505 views | BexleyHoop |
| School playground games on 20:52 - Jul 4 by queensparker |
World Cup doubles - teams of two all trying to score against a keeper in one goal, last pair left is out. Was well into that, in my head it’s been accepted into the rarified world of Beale esque training and the pros still play it
40 40 was always good, trying to make it back to base
Raps with cards. Brutal |
Raps with cards - Still have the scars on my knuckles from that 'game' / torture.
Loved Bulldog, 3 & In, headers & volleys; 40/40 ; run outs and kerb ball |  | | |
| School playground games on 16:29 - Jul 17 with 1470 views | ChrisNW6 |
Had arguement in a pub recently on the name of the game where you all line up facing a wall and some unfortunate has to run through getting kicked by everyone.
Boot Alley or Tunnel of Death?? depending on which North London Comp you went to. | | | |
| School playground games on 07:54 - Jul 18 with 1313 views | Monkey_Roots |
| School playground games on 10:14 - Jul 4 by paulparker |
British bulldog was great we used to play Year vs Year in our school
Headers and volleys on the school field , plus Wembley and World Cup
Where is Monkey roots ? We went to the same school I’m sure he will remember some of these |
I do remember all of those - Bulldog was a particular favourite, year vs year got quite tasty!
Wembley and World Cup down at the car park end of the field - I was a bit of a goalie back then.
Remember the infants? We all used to join together in a line, marching round chanting ‘who wants to play war’ (or whatever), and kids used to run up and join the line until we had enough bodies… |  | | |
| School playground games on 11:22 - Jul 18 with 1242 views | paulparker |
| School playground games on 07:54 - Jul 18 by Monkey_Roots |
I do remember all of those - Bulldog was a particular favourite, year vs year got quite tasty!
Wembley and World Cup down at the car park end of the field - I was a bit of a goalie back then.
Remember the infants? We all used to join together in a line, marching round chanting ‘who wants to play war’ (or whatever), and kids used to run up and join the line until we had enough bodies… |
Yes I do remember, them were the days
I also recall that we had a fight with the year below and had litter duty for a good month or so
We also couldn’t of been the only school to have had to play football with a tennis ball on the netball courts |  |
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| School playground games on 11:28 - Jul 18 with 1230 views | Mick_S |
| School playground games on 07:54 - Jul 18 by Monkey_Roots |
I do remember all of those - Bulldog was a particular favourite, year vs year got quite tasty!
Wembley and World Cup down at the car park end of the field - I was a bit of a goalie back then.
Remember the infants? We all used to join together in a line, marching round chanting ‘who wants to play war’ (or whatever), and kids used to run up and join the line until we had enough bodies… |
“We won the war, in 1964” Fifteen minutes of it mid morning playtime. Football after lunch.
My history teacher must have been rubbish. |  |
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| School playground games on 11:30 - Jul 18 with 1228 views | dmm |
| School playground games on 11:28 - Jul 18 by Mick_S |
“We won the war, in 1964” Fifteen minutes of it mid morning playtime. Football after lunch.
My history teacher must have been rubbish. |
Ha! We chanted the same at Harvist Road Primary. Even then I used to think it wasn't quite right. | | | |
| School playground games on 12:12 - Jul 18 with 1202 views | SydneyRs |
Sure all have been mentioned already but cowboys and indians when very young and "had" (sometimes known as tips), british bulldog and "murderball" which was one to avoid a lot of the time!
Jacks and marbles for times when less space was available. Penny up the wall was another popular one at high school where dinner money was often won and lost.
Knock down ginger was one for after school. One time a huge black guy was waiting behind his front door and roared at us as we approached. Fair to say we shat ourselves and legged it. [Post edited 18 Jul 2023 12:14]
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| School playground games on 12:47 - Jul 18 with 1174 views | Nov77 |
“Slogs” - “No Slogs”
Urban dictionary:
when someone passes wind anyone in hearing distance of the fart, can say SLOGS, which gives him or her the right to punch the person farting. To negate SLOGS the farter has to say NO SLOGS.
Many a gaseous discharge related dead arm in my school. |  |
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| School playground games on 12:52 - Jul 18 with 1168 views | ingeminate |
| School playground games on 10:07 - Jul 4 by Metallica_Hoop |
Champ and bulldog were my favourites. |
Was champ the one with four squares and a ball? If so used to play it at Brackenbury Primary school in the 80's- can't remember the rules though! |  |
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| School playground games on 13:02 - Jul 18 with 1156 views | flynnbo |
| School playground games on 11:30 - Jul 18 by dmm |
Ha! We chanted the same at Harvist Road Primary. Even then I used to think it wasn't quite right. |
Same here in Balham. Wonder who started that chant? |  | | |
| School playground games on 13:59 - Jul 18 with 1118 views | Mick_S |
Our year v year end of term fights were a bit vicious. Always good to celebrate 6 weeks off. My mate from round the block was a year older, so we used to pile in to each other, make fight noises, call each other names and get in a headlock.
You ok mate? Fake punch.
Not bad. Fake punch.
Feckin bad over there. Whack. No contact.
All over and we’d stand there pointing at each other pulling angry faces. We never got sussed or even a bruise.
Same time tomorrow? | |
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