Playground Games

What playground games did you play at school other than football?
A personal favourite was "Pegs" (NO STEPHEN DAWSON)
Does anyone else remember playing it? You made a wicket out of 3 wooden pegs and had to knock them down with a tennis ball, and it was basically ball tigs while someone tried to rebuild the wicket.

Other great games were Kerby (we made up ridiculous rules to make it more interesting) and the flick a coin closest to the wall game that everyone has different names for.

Also the slide a 10p on the table so it over hangs the end, flick it, catch it and then spin it, trap it between your fingers and fire it through a goal made of the opponents fingers.

 

Finger, thumb a rusty bum, no Steven, leave it.

 

We had pegs as well
One kick - had to hit the ball against wall in one kick. If you didn't like someone you tee it up so the person could smash it against the wall for miles

British Bulldog was a favourite

Be the odd game of football and cricket

Role play games as well - cops and robbers - we'd play Professionals as well and end up arguing about who would be Bodie and Doyle lol!

Sad to see now that kids don't really know how to play and school and games of football usually end up in fights and wasted time after break sorting them out

 

This was coin 'rugby' wasn't it, 5 points for a 'try' which was the flicking up and catching it, and then 2 points for the 'conversion'. I remember getting about 260 points in one break time once

Then there was coin 'football' where you lined up 3 coins at your end of the table, one or two overhanging the edge, the other(s) touching, knock the overhanging coin(s) with the palm of your hand, and proceed to flick the furthest back coin in between the other 2, until at some point you shoot, trying to flick the respective coin into the net at the other end, which was made by the opponent's hand (thumb and little finger).

I was good at that as well! Shame I'm not good at much else! (other than mortgage advice now ).

 

Heads and Tails we called the game where you threw a coin to the wall, nearest got to pick them all up and toss them all, call heads or tails, you won whatever landed on what you called.

Also played the sliding a coin across table to get it hanging over slightly so you could flick it up, catch it spin it and stop it in-between your thumbs, then take a shot at goal (which was made by your opponents fingers as posts and thumbs as crossbar).

Loved both of those games.

 

Sounds daft but I actually sorry for kids these days in respect of not having to use their imagination to come up with games like this to pass time. All just phones, consoles, internet etc now.

 

Yeah, as much as I grew up with computers and consoles around, it wasn’t the be all and end all of entertainment.
And I will die on the hill that waiting a week for the next episode of something made us a lot more patient than kids today who watch their favourite programmes on demand.

 

Not half, kids these days want everything right now, absolutely no patience whatsoever, even good kids, nice kids, it's just the way.

 

And as adults we’re all used to it as well. No one has patience any more.
I’m 41 and sound like I’m 85 complaining about the youth of today!

 

The description of Pegs is what we called Sticks.
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I had an example of that tonight.

I wanted to order a curtain pole (well I say I, it was on behalf of the Mrs). The one that was most desirable couldn't be delivered until Sunday. So bought a different one that would arrive tomorrow instead...

The thing is, I was used to as a kid having to order and wait for about a week or even more. The Amazon side affects are well and truly ingrained into many of us these days.

And the fact that Amazon deliver on a Sunday isn't lost on me either. It's the now, I want it now scenario.

 

And it gave us something to talk about. These days, I can only mention programmes in vague terms when the conversation gets on to television shows. Even if other people are watching the same thing, we're all on different series or episodes, so spoilers are a real conversation stopper. Oh for the days when we all went into work on a morning and shared our theories about who had shot JR Ewing...

 

I remember as a kid, whenever you ordered anything from adverts in newspapers etc, it was always at the bottom of the ad, "Please allow 28 days for delivery"!

 

Haha, same age as me mate!

 

Spot on.

 

Yup, 3 sticks for us.

 

In my era Batman was the thing, going from memory it was transmitted over two nights on the weekend and always left you on a cliff hanger... at the time my parents ran a petrol station in Ecclesfield, if everything went to plan we'd be back home for Batman... if it didn't and I missed part 2, Monday morning in school was absolutely miserable... no video recorders in those days.

 

The word DOBBY just came to mind. Who played that? I forget what it was though

 

Like Hide n seek

 

That's an odd thing. First we had no way of recording telly. Then for a decade or so we did. Now we don't anymore. Nothing readily available at any rate.

As for games, we had "Water" which was best described as base tigs. If tigged you had to stand in the base, waiting to see if someone from your team could tig you out without getting tigged themselves.