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purplefan
14-03-16, 12:56 AM
Anyone remember games from your child hood?
I remember battleship i got once for christmas. And snakes and ladders of course also yatzee was a good one i liked to play with my mum and dad. There was a cracking horse racing game that you wound up but i cant remember the name.
So go on what was your favorite?
OldMike
14-03-16, 01:03 AM
Monopoly, magnetic football, Ludo, Sorry & Lexicon to name but a few.
Jaquaia
14-03-16, 02:02 AM
Frustration, Operation. Being quite an odd child I spent more time reading then anything else!
I love Yahtzee - me, my brother, my parents and surrogate grandparents used to play at least once a fortnight. Fond memories. And of course, I was one of the original Trivial Pursuit generation :)
I've never played yahtzee..
OldMike
14-03-16, 02:05 PM
I've heard of Yahtzee but never played it.
I used to play spillikins though can't exactly remember the rules.
Spillikins? I've never heard of it.. Ahhh I've googled and I do know it! My Dad had a set and we were allowed to play once in a blue moon..
Same as "pick up sticks". I wonder what happened to his set?
OldMike
14-03-16, 02:14 PM
Spillikins? I've never heard of it.. Ahhh I've googled and I do know it! My Dad had a set and we were allowed to play once in a blue moon..
Same as "pick up sticks". I wonder what happened to his set?
From what I remember it was played with thin plastic sticks of various colours.
OldMike
14-03-16, 02:16 PM
Mister Potato Head where you had all these parts eyes, noses, ears etc you stuck in a potato to make a funny face.
purplefan
14-03-16, 04:50 PM
Frustration, Operation. Being quite an odd child I spent more time reading then anything else!
Apparently that is how they train the new doctors in the N.H.S with operation. If they touch the side then they have o re sit that year.
purplefan
14-03-16, 04:51 PM
I used to like magnetic football. But i fell over the pitch and broke the legs. I had a cracking Fisher price garage with a ramp and lift that wound up. Brilliant hours of fun.
Trying hard
11-05-16, 09:41 PM
Still play most of these with my youngest :D
Never heard of spillikins
some others \kerplunk, sorry, guess who,
ones we love now is the modern game of life, hobbit, risk and cluedo
purplefan
16-05-16, 08:11 PM
Kerplunk was fun but like mousetrap it took too long to set up. I love snakes and ladders and when we got to the top we would go up the snakes and down the ladders all the way to the bottom.
purplefan
02-07-16, 11:44 AM
Did any of you play Rounders? Boys vs girls.
OldMike
02-07-16, 11:53 AM
Did any of you play Rounders? Boys vs girls.
I never played rounders but my sister did.
Rounders, hockey, netball, kerplunk, monopoly, frustration, connect 4, Hide and seek, hopscotch, tyeing ropes round the lamp posts and swinging round them
purplefan
04-07-16, 02:33 AM
it seems like children played the same sort of games but with different names.
British bulldog was a fav at my school.
One of my favourites was my Sketch-O-Matic, sort of like the I-Pad of it's day
purplefan
25-07-16, 09:48 PM
Chloe has a etch o sketch and Spirograph. Sh loves drawing with it.
S deleted
25-07-16, 11:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcg7poOZhc
purplefan
26-07-16, 09:10 AM
God stella, that was a few years ago LOL.
S deleted
26-07-16, 11:13 AM
Not something I was especially good at but the girls in that video sure knew what they were doing. Nowadays double dutch has been taken to a whole new level
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