Playground games

[CiderMonkey]

Anyone with kids at school - do they still play games in the playground like we did. Please mother may I, What's the time Mr Wolf, Stuck in the Mud etc.

what games do you remember?

[georgit79]

Red Rover (that one bloody hurt)

British Bulldog

Kiss Chase (my personal favourite)

[natalie_1982]

Boot Square (we were banned from playing that)

Blockey (think other people called it fourty fourty)

Foxes and Hounds

Tig/ tag

Please Mrs Crocodile

[natalie_1982]

Georgi, I feel for the boys you went to school with.

They're probably wither all gay or still living at home with their mothers too terrified to ever leave home and set up with a girl!

[georgit79]

Oi! I was the one being chased, thankyou very much!

I also enjoyed waiting until after it had rained and then collecting all the worms that appeared on the playground in plastic cups, and scaring the boys with them..

[Ward-Minter]

I think there was one called something like "TIN TAN TOMMY" similar to tag where you had to hide and run to a post avoiding the watcher. At the post you had to shout "TIN TAN TOMMY GOD SAVE ME"

 

I also went to an all boys boarding school and this is not the right place to mention what when on when lights went out!!!

[CiderMonkey]

ooh, what are red rover and boot square. We didn't have those, or if we did they were another name.

[natalie_1982]

In boot square you all stood in two lines facing in eachother and a nominated kid had run through the 'tunnel' and get kicked by everyone.  There may have been more to it than that but I don't remember the rest.

[mycatis]

British Bulldogs
Kiss, cuddle or torture
Polo
What's the time Mr Wolf
Dodgeball
and in Primary 5 we went through a stage of fighting every lunch hour, boys v girls, it was a really wee school and very civilised, we would discuss it in class before the lunch break, then try and knock ten bells of **** out of each other, ah those were the days lol.
Did any one play "heads down, thumbs up"?  It was played in the classroom and looking back, I suspect it was just a way for the teachers to shut us up for a bit

[Glossopswift]

We played acky 1-2-3, which seems to be like WM�s tin tan tommy

[georgit79]

Red Rover wasn't that much different to Boot Square. Two teams, facing each other all linking arms/holding hands. You sing,

'Red Rover, Red Rover, I call *insert name here* over', and whoever is called has to run at the other team, choose a gap between two people and try and break through. You get 10 seconds. If you can't get through, you have to switch teams.

[CiderMonkey]

natalie - no wonder boot square got banned! ;-)

 

But do kids play these kind of games in school now?

[natalie_1982]

Nah, Goergi, Red Rover you faced eachother and had to burst through the other side's linked arms.  In boot square you rang between the lines and got kicked by bnoth sides.  I think the point was trying to get out the other end withouth any broken bones/ open wounds.

[Alf]

Red lights, red lights 1-2-3.  You had your back to everyone when you said this and they ran towards you, when you spun round after 3 whoever you saw moving was sent back to the start.  God we were easy pleased then!!

[keys]

Used to play Polo, British bulldog and cat n mouse. Cat and mouse was a group of people say 25.  People standing in a square of 5 people across and 5 people across at 45 degrees. The people had their arms out to stop the cat n mouse going thru.

Did any1 else play Cat n mouse in Games lesson?

[Jules001]

Having just recently stopped working in a school, I can tell you that the playground games you remember are no longer played (well not in my school). They still played Tag, although they call it IT. They play football or there is playground equipment for them to use such as skipping ropes, hula hoops or and they had a hopscotch thing painted on the playground. They seem to invent their own games now, incidentally thought heads down, thumbs up is still played in the classroom, particularly when there are reports to be written or work to be marked :)

[liquoricemad]

Not played in the playground, but in the garden - Stretch - You stand, facing your opponent, about a metre away from each other and throw a penknife so it sticks in the ground. They have to stretch a foot to reach the knife, then it's their turn, and the game finishes when one player can't reach the knife with a foot. I remember it was hard to get the knife to stick in, especially if you tried to get it to go out of the other person's reach. 

[sammy snake]

Red Rover was banned at our school after one lads teeth sank into someone elses forehead as he was trying to crash through the line.

Thats probably why kids these days don't play these games, they've all been banned in the past so they don't know what they are now!

[dothawkes]

Never heard of any of them at all, we had a long skipping rope and that was it, oh apart from balls Against the wall, I was good at that,   What?

[MyDisguise]

pmsl dot you male or female??