It was always duck, duck, goose for me. But that may be because of growing up in Ohio.

My favorite childhood game was kickball though. I want to play it again.

It was duck,duck, goose for me but my childhood buds and I were a bit too rowdy for that. It was usually a game were it's a guarantee one of us got in trouble or injured but honestly, they were great times and worth the memory.

Sooooooooooooo, I totes have a job again. I am the happiest of campers.

(10-17-2014, 05:40 PM)Zaliphone Wrote:

(10-17-2014, 05:20 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote: Quick question: When you guys were kids, was the game called "Duck, Duck, Grey Duck" or "Duck, Duck, Goose"?

Duck, Duck, Goose for me. I've never heard it referred as Duck, Duck, Grey Duck.

I read something that us Minnesotans are they only ones to use "Grey Duck", and I wanted to see if that were true. Seems like it is, which is very weird to me.

(10-17-2014, 05:20 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote: Quick question: When you guys were kids, was the game called "Duck, Duck, Grey Duck" or "Duck, Duck, Goose"?

Duck, Duck, Grey Duck for me. I think it varies by state or maybe region of the country.

Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck ............Goose in Texas.

Speaking of childhood games, did anyone else ever have slapping circles as a kid. You'd smack each other in the face in a circle, although you couldn't hit the same person twice in a row or everyone got to smack you. Last two people remaining were the winners.

Our maybe we should had violent games in southeastern Ohio. Best rule was no dodging our you had to clean a dirt road with a toothbrush, but we never really enforced it.

There was something like that in my middle school. It was a game played by hormonal gym kids and everyone hated it including the people playing it but they did it because they liked the giving end. It really wasn't much of a game as a "dominance" thing. People would slap the back of your head after you got a haircut. That was literally it. It hurt like hell and screw everyone involved but it was a thing.

At that crappy Christian school I went the boys would play a game called "Smear the Queer" where they targeted a boy at random during recess and would shove him around.

Duck Duck Goose over here.

But the real question is did you guys get to use the Parachute when it was a rainy day or something.

That shit was so cash, we used to play one game where one person would be the "shark" and go under it and try to "grab" you and pull you under with them then you became the shark and had to do the same with other people.

(10-17-2014, 08:54 PM)retrolinkx Wrote: Duck Duck Goose over here.

But the real question is did you guys get to use the Parachute when it was a rainy day or something.

That shit was so cash, we used to play one game where one person would be the "shark" and go under it and try to "grab" you and pull you under with them then you became the shark and had to do the same with other people.

THE PARACHUTE WAS THE BEST THING EVER! We did the exact same thing!

We also really loved the game "Pin Guard", which was basically dodge ball, except the pummeling didn't stop until two pins were knocked over. 

We never got to play Dodgeball till we were about 14 or so, no idea why, but damn it was fun to play.

It had some real strategy that no other sport I played had.

Dogdeball was deemed to dangerous at school for me, and we never had a parachute...
Yet the teachers never broke up our slapping circles, which I get the feeling is more painful than dodgeball...

But we did get kickball. Kickball was awesome. You got bonus points if you kicked the ball into the farmer's corn field next to the building. It was an excuse for the kids to run through the corn field really since we were allowed to search for the ball. The old farmer didn't care either. Unless he was was harvesting that day in which we'd run away from the tractor like scared mice. When it was a rainy day at my elementary school, we just didn't have recess. Or if the playground was muddy. The school building was over 100 years old and didn't have a gym or anything like that in it so we just had to stay in our classrooms in bad weather. The library and the 4th grade classroom was the same thing. There was only one class per grade. Restrooms were in the basement and it flooded every time it rained, rendering the restrooms unusable. I peed my pants more times than I'd like to admit because we didn't have a working restroom half the time. The cafeteria was a separate, small building without heat or AC. You froze as you ate in winter and burned to death in late spring. I'm just rambling at this point, but kickball and running through the corn field was great.

(10-17-2014, 08:56 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote:

(10-17-2014, 08:54 PM)retrolinkx Wrote: Duck Duck Goose over here.

But the real question is did you guys get to use the Parachute when it was a rainy day or something.

That shit was so cash, we used to play one game where one person would be the "shark" and go under it and try to "grab" you and pull you under with them then you became the shark and had to do the same with other people.

THE PARACHUTE WAS THE BEST THING EVER! We did the exact same thing!

We also really loved the game "Pin Guard", which was basically dodge ball, except the pummeling didn't stop until two pins were knocked over. 

OH MY GOD YES!  The parachute was the only good thing about gym as a kid next to using those little floor scooter cart things.