Games you made up as a kid

[octothorp]

We had one we'd play at school which we called murderball, which was basically dodge-ball in the dark. No teams, rules or ways to win. Just stay away from the glow of the exit sign, and if you happen to get hit, don't make a peep or two dozen guys will start throwing in your direction. Basically the game was all about stealth and pain tolerance.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Trampoline Karate. that one is pretty self explanatory, though the best was when i landed a full on 2 foot dropkick and my friend hurled 20 feet away and landed on his back in the mud

there was also the ski-do gaultlet, where one guy would get on the snowmobile we had and ride around the yard, and the only way for anyone else to get a turn was to knock them off by any means neccessary (snowballs, tackles, one case of a pellet gun, etc)

safety seems to be a low priority for small town kids

[Sparks]

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...

We called that one Bums Up - I remember playing that one a lot during recess.

[604flames]

Originally Posted by Sparks

We called that one Bums Up - I remember playing that one a lot during recess.

The worst was if it was really cold out... we'd leave the ball in the snow during class to let it harden as the day went by. Guys would go all out to make sure they didn't have to line up on the wall.

[Nuje]

LOL at drop the ham on Maciej. I'm a Polak so it's just funnier for some reason. We played a game called "The wild beast"
We had an unfinished basement. One person would be the wild beast, and he'd have to crawl on all fours (it would usually be my older brother or one of his friends) and the point is to get into the laundry room. The object for everyone else is to prevent him from getting there.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

safety seems to be a low priority for small town kids

Yeah, ain't that the truth. But it was always a good idea and so much fun!

[habernac]

I used to play entire NHL seasons with hockey cards. Had the old tiny nets from a rod hockey game, the goalie hockey card would be in the middle of the net of course. My Guy Lafleur cards were frayed at the ends from shooting the tiny puck all the time.

[RougeUnderoos]

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 played that game too, in Calgary. We just called it "500" though and the ball was usually thrown in the air instead of hit with a bat. The value of each throw was not pre-determined but was up to the discretion of the thrower. The thrower also had to say the ball was "dead" or "alive". "Dead" meant you got the points after the ball hit the ground. "Alive" meant you had to catch it in the air. If he happened to say "dead or alive" then, well, you get the gist of it.

I remember it being easiest game ever invented to cheat at. You kept your own score in your head so there wasn't a lot of oversight. One part of the game that I really liked was that when it was time to go in (recess over, dinnertime) some kid would make up a funky giant number and yell something like "four thousand million and fifty, dead or alive" and throw the ball up for the last time.

Another game that I remember that was quite fun was "tell that kid to climb up that tree and shoot a bottle rocket and then watch him fall out of the tree and land on his bike". We only played that game one time but damn, it was a hell of a game. I doubt the only real player in that game can have kids after that one but if he can he'll have at least one piece of valuable advice for them.

[604flames]

Originally Posted by habernac

I used to play entire NHL seasons with hockey cards. Had the old tiny nets from a rod hockey game, the goalie hockey card would be in the middle of the net of course. My Guy Lafleur cards were frayed at the ends from shooting the tiny puck all the time.

Oh my God I totally did that too! the worst was if you had cards from different seasons, and you wound up having the same player play on both teams.. Stupid Brent Ashton

[Superflyer]

Man I am suprized that there are so many people alive today after reading these posts. Now my stupid\fun games.
We would climb up the tallest hill and try to get to the bottom of the hill in the most artistic way, usually summersaults, cartwheels tumbles etc. We would get pretty banged up over that.
Also we used to play snowmobile rodeo. We would make big dips and jumps in the snow and then you tie a rope to the back of a snowmobile and one person holds onto the rope and the driver has to make them let go in 8 seconds or less.

[shane_c]

We used to play a card game called 'War' a lot too. Split the deck in 1/2 and each person flips a card over at the same time. Highest card wins and that person adds it to their pile. If you both turn over the same card then it's a war. Each person then lays 3 cards face down and then flips the 4th one. Whoever is highest takes all the cards. The game is over when someone runs out of cards. Sometimes it went on for hours.

And since I lived in the sticks in NS with no kids around I used to make up a lot of things to do on my own as well. I put a taped off area on our garage door and pretended it was a strike zone and practiced throwing the ball at it. I also drew a line on the ground about 50 feet back from the garage door and timed how long it took to throw the ball or shoot the puck at it and then could figure out how fast I could throw and shoot. Yes I was bored.

[edn88]

I remember playing ruler hockey in grade one - essentially on the floor with a balled up piece of paper and those footlong wooden rulers.

And later, I remember playing quarter football where you had 4 'downs' to get your quarter to balance on the edge of a table - once you did that you had to be able to flick it into the air and catch it. For the point afters, you would have your opponent make a field goal with their hands and you would use your thumbs to catapult the quarter through the uprights.

[Flashpoint]

Embacher Ball - named after my best friend. It was basketball except full contact, and you didn't have to bounce the ball. Tons of fun.

Murder Ball - dodgeball with a basketball. Hurts like a sonofabitch. We knocked a kid out when his head hit the brick wall behind him.

Wrestleball - a vollyball is placed in the middle of a long corridor of mats. 2 guys at opposing ends of the corridor. First guy to get the vollyball back to his end of the corridor wins. No holds barred.

[burn_baby_burn]

Growing up in the middle of know where. You had to have a pretty good imagination. When the neighbor kids came over or we went over to the neighbors we would allways make up some sort of game. The worst one I remember was at my buddys house. His older brother got on the quad with the pellet gun and chased us all over their ranch. I must have got shot with that stupid pellet gun about 12 times that day. Why we agreed to let him do this is a mystery to me. But looking back at it now it sure was a lot of fun. How none of us lost an eye I'll never know.

Another game we played one fall. We had had an early frost and all the Tomatoes in the garden were no good. We would take turns riding by on our bikes and the rest of us would pelt the person on the bike with tomatoes. This was a blast.

[Nufy]

In small town NFLD we used to get sharp sticks and find a bunch of fresh spruce or pine buds still dripping with sap..

We would then impale the buds onto the stick and whip them at each other.

Boy would those suckers hurt......

[RougeUnderoos]

Chicken fights.

Chinese Downhill.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Chicken fights.

Chinese Downhill.

Chicken fights on the monkey bars at the playground were always fun.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Chicken fights on the monkey bars at the playground were always fun.

On the monkey bars? That's a whole 'nother level of danger that I never got into. Our chicken fights were basically a fistfight/wrestling match between two kids being piggy-backed. Whoever hit the ground first lost.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

On the monkey bars? That's a whole 'nother level of danger that I never got into. Our chicken fights were basically a fistfight/wrestling match between two kids being piggy-backed. Whoever hit the ground first lost.

Yeah there were two kinds of Chicke Fights when I was a kid. There was the piggy back and then there was the hanging from the monkey bars using your legs to knock the other guy off. Ahh good times.

[V]

Originally Posted by habernac

I used to play entire NHL seasons with hockey cards. Had the old tiny nets from a rod hockey game, the goalie hockey card would be in the middle of the net of course. My Guy Lafleur cards were frayed at the ends from shooting the tiny puck all the time.

I always did that too. I used a light brite for the puck. So many of my hockey cards were destroyed from that. It was always fun being the announcer and getting all excited with a high pitched voice when there was a great chance, or a goal. My parents have a cassette of my "announcer's" voice when they taped me from behind the door.