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Games you used to play when you were littler.
What kind of games did you and your siblings/friends/whatever play when you were little? I'm sure we're all done the one where the floor was lava and you had to stay on the furniture, pillows, etc.
When I was little, my sister and I would play some weird games, though. Like, "Rich lady and Robber." It was always the same. One of us was a rich lady, and she lived on the bottom bunk and hung up blankets to make her house. She would also get down the box of play jewelery and put on as much of it as she could. The other person was the robber. She would come up to the house pretending to be a poor traveler, and ask to stay the night. The lady would let her in, and then while she was sleeping the robber would take her jewelery and run away. After that the lady would wake up, call the police, and the robber would be caught. We played this too many times to count, switching parts every time.
We also played games about a girl whose doll came to life and took her on magical adventures. We played wedding a lot, too, switching off being the bride and groom. And that's just some of what me my sister and I did.
When we were with friends, our games were frequenly more intense. For example, when we were older we liked to play spies. The rules resembled Capture the Flag, but the idea was to find out what the other team's acronym stood for. We had ones like G.G.F. (Girls Great Friends) and S.O.A.P. (you don't want to know). I said the rules resembled Capture the Flag, but really... there weren't any official rules, so really half the game was spent arguing about what they were and who was on what team (since traitors abounded.) We hatched secret plots and took prisoners. My best friend Isha and I were once captured and trapped in a closet for 45 minutes. Well. Actually we were only trapped in there for about 15 minutes, at which point the guards got bored and wandered away, but by that time we had found the lightbulb-string and were so engrossed in a game of chess teacher we decided to stay.
Good times.
So, anyone else have any interesting stories?
My sisters and I would make one of our bedrooms into a huge spider web with a ball of string hide a prize at the end. One person had to untangle and wind the whole thing up to find the prize. We also made treasure hunts writing and hiding clues various places in the house and thruout the neighborhood.
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submitted by Emily L., age 16, WA
(June 17, 2012 - 4:39 pm)
(June 17, 2012 - 4:39 pm)
Okay... I don't know where to start. Our
first games I guess.
That would
be me bouncing a sister in this bouncing chair thing...
A bit
older... Indoors: Little games, where we'd make a town that had a train (because
one sister got one for her birthday) and a game sort of like your game Emily.
Using sheets and blanket we’d make a house or should I say jail, and I’d be in
the small part (we’d divide it) as the prisoner and my youngest sister would be
fancy prisoner and we’d pretended we were moved and falling over as we went
over a bump. My other sister... She was different each time but the one I
remember clearly was when she was a very silly super bunny that never saved us.
Or when we
were around the side of the house pretending to be bunnies with my rabbit, we
got very dirty.
And when we
were cheetahs in a zoo. We had a wonderful tree to use and under it was all
dirt for awhile before it became grass so this was the fence. I can’t remember
why this game was so fun but... We loved it!
Then we
moved and all the games were different we still played the first one, until the
bunk bed went but we had to make all new ones.
And there
was a lot. I won’t go through them all.
(June 18, 2012 - 3:41 am)
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(June 18, 2012 - 5:50 pm)
My 3 brothers and I would always "play" lots of running-around and catching-Leah and wreaking-havoc games.
The best one EVER was when Tony would "accidentally" let out our dog Skipper. He would try to escape, and Jack and Nick and I would go running after him. Eventually, one of us would grab him before he got lost in the woods by the library and drag him back to our house (do you know how HARD it is to DRAG a black Lab two blocks?) and stuff him back in the door before he tried to run away again. By that time, Tony would be sitting on the porch drinking Coke and laughing at us. I, being nine, would stand in the middle of the driveway and try to laugh maniacally with him.
Then our mom would come out of the house an lecture us about letting Skipper out. But it was still pretty fun.
Another staple was run-all-around-the-backyard-pretending-to-try-and-tag-Leah-but-missing-and-knocking-her-over, which I think is self-explanatory. I didn't really appreciate that one.
I didn't play girly girly girl games. I played rowdy messy guy games. Now when I hear people say "Ooooh, I played [insert princessy girly thingie here] SOOO much when I was little!" I think, "Really? If I did that, I would choke."
Well, now I've taken up a lot of room being tomboyish, so it's time for me to go away.
--L
(June 19, 2012 - 2:10 pm)
Blu and I used to make 'movies', which meant we would act, but without a script or a camera or anything like that. We still do that, but now they're a lot better and actually filmed.
(June 19, 2012 - 5:36 pm)
Ooh! That reminds me that my sister and I used to put on "plays" all the time. We would usually pick a Disney Princess movie and split up the parts between us. Then we'd drag our parents in to watch us do it.
(June 21, 2012 - 5:09 pm)
@Emily L.
We used to do that, but we didn't have lines. We just acted along to the soundtrack.
(June 22, 2012 - 5:54 pm)
Oh my goodness. My sister and I played "Animals."
Basically, our stuffed animals were characters, and every single one of them had a different personality, and a different name, and somehow we managed to remember them. They all lived in an "Animal Place" (which would be our rooms) and my sister and I were the keepers. Sometimes evil men would come in and steal them, and they would have to go on rescue missions, sometime Lenny and Lilly would get a crazy idea like creating a circus, or a museum. And then our room would be a circus or a museum.
That's the basic gist of things though.
(June 27, 2012 - 9:06 pm)
My brother and I used to pretend a whole lot in our backyard, so we'd climb up the avocado trees and pretend like we were sailors on an abandoned island, and we'd make orange-leaf-and-ground-up-avocado stew in little bowls. Then he'd play this game called 'Obedience' or something like that, in which he'd put me in a sleeping bag, tie up the top, drag me around the house, lock me in a closet and try and get out without being noticed. And then there was Ninja, where we'd dress up in all black and sneak around the house with pretend bows and arrows and samurai swords, and the winner was whoever could get to the kitchen and pour a glass of milk without being taken out by the other. Good times.
(June 28, 2012 - 12:25 am)
My sister and I used to play so many games. Of course, to us there was a distinct difference between "games" and "stories". A game was when there were rules and usually a lot of running and shreiking and somebody won. A good example of such would be the (very creatively named) Seat Game. The rules are such:
Our basement is built in a circle around a wall, making a great place to run around. We would put chairs a varying intervals around the circle.
You would need at least four people to play this game (usually me, my older sister, and my two next-youngest brothers--the rest weren't old enough to play when we did this). There would be one fewer chairs than people, and one person was designated the "chaser" and given one of those Hot Wheels tracks. The goal of the game was to get out of your chair and run all the way around the basement without the chaser touching you with the track.
To make it extra-fun, if we had enough people, we would take out one more chair, so that there was always someone running. IT was a strangely fun game (although for some reason Mom didn't like it. Maybe it was all the screaming that went on).
A "story", on the other hand, was something in which you chose what character you were, and you made it up as you went along. Such would include playing Centaurs, in which you would choose a name and which breed of horse that your horse-body was, and go from there. Centaurs generally lived in teepees like Native Americans.
(July 9, 2012 - 1:03 pm)