Games you made up as a kid

[Sylvanfan]

Inspired by the things you used to believe thread, as kids I imagine other people made up some pretty silly games that you played with your friends or siblings.

Two that I remember are one from when I was like 9-10 called Moo Cow. Basically this was sort of like tag except that you had to trip the "Moo cow" and get him on the ground. Tackling was illegal, although occasionally the class bully would do it to you anyways (turns out that even though he'd failed 2 times by grade 4 that he wasn't such an idiot as he got to abuse you and didn't have to worry about running away from 15 other kids afterwards). After playing it for about two weeks at recess and lunch the rest of us eventually caught on that it wasn't worth chasing down a guy and tripping him for the right be be chased.

Another short lived one was a game called Umpire. Basically one of us would put on my dads umpire mask and get in a sleeping bag and stand up. About 3 of us would be on the other side of the basement (probably 25-30 feet away) and pelt the umpire with baseballs until we knocked him down. That one usually ended up with someone crying and my parents scolding us. Usually after the first round.

What other dumb games did you make up as a kid.

[JiriHrdina]

When Return of the Jedi came out we made up a game called "Sarlac Pit".

Basically you had 4 guys on a wide long slide, hanging on to the top.

The guy at the bottom was tasked with the job of running up the slide, grabbing onto the one of their legs and trying to drag them back down. If successful, that person than became the person at the bottom of the "Sarlac Pit".

Needless to say shortly after the invention of this game one of my friends went face first into the slide and chipped a tooth.

Good times.

[Resolute 14]

Full contact basketball - until I sprained my ankle, and the teachers kicked us out of the gym at lunch. My ankle still hurts like hell if I am walking for more than an hour.

A friend and I invented a variant of hockey that involved canoe oars and a tennis ball. It usually devolved from trying to score to trying to injure your opponent by whipping the ball directly at him.

[shane_c]

We used to play a game we called Circus. I have no idea why. We would have someone driving back and forth on their bike and try to knock them off with a basketball.

Used to also play Pop 500. Someone would hit a baseball and if we caught it in the air it was worth 100 pts, 1 bounce 75, 2 bounces 50, 3 bounces or a grounder 25. If you dropped the ball you'd lose 100 pts. First person to 500 points got their turn batting out the balls.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by shane_c

We used to play a game we called Circus. I have no idea why. We would have someone driving back and forth on their bike and try to knock them off with a basketball.

I'm surprised the kids I used to play along with my brother and I never thought of that one. If we had it would have involved throwing rocks.

Yes, being a kid was fun.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by shane_c

Used to also play Pop 500. Someone would hit a baseball and if we caught it in the air it was worth 100 pts, 1 bounce 75, 2 bounces 50, 3 bounces or a grounder 25. If you dropped the ball you'd lose 100 pts. First person to 500 points got their turn batting out the balls.

I think that must be pretty common. I played that growing up in SW Ont.

[OilersBaby]

My sister, brother, and I played a game we called "Rolly Muddy". I have no idea what the game entailed, but it had something to do with rolling around. Care to elaborate Neil?

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

A buddy of mine and his 3 brothers used to play a game called "Nutball" (Once I moved to Calgary about 10 years ago I began to play it too, at the age of about 16, so you know it stood the test of time).

Basically you stood across the room from each other with hockey sticks and took turns shooting a ball (about the consistency of those footballs the throw into the stands after stamps touchdowns) at each others nuts. The first guy to fall over lost. If you covered up or flinched, the other guy got a penalty shot where you had to kneel and he shot as usual.

Often times it ended with someone getting hit sqarely in the nuts and the other guy losing because he fell over from laughing so hard. Ahhh good times.

We also used to have "Binky" tournaments. 2 on 2 basement hockey with mini sticks and the "Nutball" ball. More than one brother has gone through a wall while playing Binky.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

The usual stupid guy stuff.

Two interesting ones:

GI Joe Boxing - Inspired by 1984 olympics. 2 ten year olds grab 5 GI joe men each and put them through 3 rounds of grueling olympic boxing action. (2 boxers, 2 cornermen, 1 ref). Fights usually went the distcnace, so the other 10 year old had to judge (somehow having seen the fight while conducting his own). Often poor judges decisions led to fighting 10 year olds. And for the record, Copperhead kicked ass.

A friend's was the best - Drop the Ham on Maciej. While working at pizza 73, throw a piece of ham up and stick to the ceiling tiles. Whoever's ham falls on the polish guy no one can understand, wins.

[Inferno]

I remember during recess we used to play something that was half soccer and half hockey. We would use a soccer ball with a soccer net but there would be body contact and the goalies would make saves like a hockey goalie.

[Sylvanfan]

Yeah, we also used to do the old hemets and gloves in the basement too. Of course back then none of us had a stop watch, but since my family was supposedly rich and went down to the states once a year we were like the only people in Cranbrook to own one of those clock radio things. We'd set the rounds for 2 minutes and have at her. My brother and I usually had the best fights and often pummelled the other kids.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

A buddy of mine and his 3 brothers used to play a game called "Nutball" (Once I moved to Calgary about 10 years ago I began to play it too, at the age of about 16, so you know it stood the test of time).

Basically you stood across the room from each other with hockey sticks and took turns shooting a ball (about the consistency of those footballs the throw into the stands after stamps touchdowns) at each others nuts. The first guy to fall over lost. If you covered up or flinched, the other guy got a penalty shot where you had to kneel and he shot as usual.

Often times it ended with someone getting hit sqarely in the nuts and the other guy losing because he fell over from laughing so hard. Ahhh good times.

We also used to have "Binky" tournaments. 2 on 2 basement hockey with mini sticks and the "Nutball" ball. More than one brother has gone through a wall while playing Binky.

Yeah had a quasi combo of those two called nutso ball that I played at about 15-16. You needed a somewhat finished basment and 3 guys. You got one of those super bouncy balls for 25 cents and two guys would fight it out and try to throw the ball off the wall and get it past the goalie who had a goal to defend. A lot of tackling shot blocking etc. That was a good game, usually wore holes in the knees of your pants.

[604flames]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

we were like the only people in Cranbrook to own one of those clock radio things.

Cranbrook's totally one of those towns where you have to make up games to keep yourself sane lol.

I remember when I lived there, me and the other kids on my block used to go out into the woods and shoot things with pellet guns... either that or go to the arcade in Tamarack Mall (before it closed)

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

A buddy of mine and his 3 brothers used to play a game called "Nutball" (Once I moved to Calgary about 10 years ago I began to play it too, at the age of about 16, so you know it stood the test of time).

Basically you stood across the room from each other with hockey sticks and took turns shooting a ball (about the consistency of those footballs the throw into the stands after stamps touchdowns) at each others nuts. The first guy to fall over lost. If you covered up or flinched, the other guy got a penalty shot where you had to kneel and he shot as usual.

Often times it ended with someone getting hit sqarely in the nuts and the other guy losing because he fell over from laughing so hard. Ahhh good times.

We also used to have "Binky" tournaments. 2 on 2 basement hockey with mini sticks and the "Nutball" ball. More than one brother has gone through a wall while playing Binky.

You're missing one of the classic Piechotta basement games. It used the binky net (whatever furniture was around and various pieces of wall to make a net) and their jukebox. You put a song on, and there are 2 guys trying to score on the goalie as many times as they can in that one song. Everyone goes, and the guy who gives up the least goals wins. The official song was "Call me Al" by Simon and Garfunkel.

[Bill Bumface]

Oh and I forgot about troll ping pong. You draft a team of various trolls and wrestling action figures and set them up on your side of the ping pong table. You win by knocking the other guys trolls/action figures down. The draft was key to get the most stable trolls.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by 604flames

Cranbrook's totally one of those towns where you have to make up games to keep yourself sane lol.

I remember when I lived there, me and the other kids on my block used to go out into the woods and shoot things with pellet guns... either that or go to the arcade in Tamarack Mall (before it closed)

Yeah, we used to do quite a bit of afterschool hunting with pellet guns too. Also lived close to Idlewyld park so we did a fair bit of fishing too. After we caught the fish, we'd go hack down tree's and light fires to cook the fish. Pretty self sufficient for a bunch of kids under 12 though..

[TheDragon]

Originally Posted by Inferno

I remember during recess we used to play something that was half soccer and half hockey. We would use a soccer ball with a soccer net but there would be body contact and the goalies would make saves like a hockey goalie.

We had a game similar to that in Saskatoon when I was growing up, except we used one of those small, blue and red squishy balls that were made out of foam. We usually just used those little flags that gas companies planted in the ground for marking lines in new housing developments and stuff for nets, and marked them by ten steps wide.

It was completely full contact. We'd journey out to the farthest part of the field where the teacher never bothered coming to supervise. Nobody ever got hurt, though.

Other than that, Grounders was a popular game to play on the playground. That and hacky sack.

[604flames]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Yeah, we used to do quite a bit of afterschool hunting with pellet guns too. Also lived close to Idlewyld park so we did a fair bit of fishing too. After we caught the fish, we'd go hack down tree's and light fires to cook the fish. Pretty self sufficient for a bunch of kids under 12 though..

Nicely done...

As for games tho, we always played Red-Ass at school... but we always picked on this one scrawny kid and all I can remember now is one day in like Grade 4 or 5 our teacher lectured us for like 2h on bullying. But Red-Ass was classic...

[pope04]

In the summer, my friend and I used to take our football to the outdoor rink, where we'd punt the ball back and forth. If you caught the ball, you could take 10 steps forward, if you failed to catch it, you'd take 10 steps backwards. You'd win the game when you punted the ball out of your opponent's end of the rink. The only problem was there was a pool attached to one side of the rink, so occasionally the football'd land in the pool. Of course, we were considerate and tried to warn the swimmers.

[jolinar of malkshor]

My cousins and borthers and I would play war with BB guns. We put on face masks and then go out and shoot each other. We always did this when our parents were out.

Looking back at it....wasn't the smartest thing to do.