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Tried to think back this evening to what were the first games I remember playing.

Nursery school:little white clay pipes for blowing bubbles.

Primary school: Wendy house, where there was a load of plastic fruit and veg. also a till, like in a shop, in pounds, shillings and pence with plastic money.

Fuzzy felt - special board (pale blue or green) and coloured felt pieces for making pictures -especially liked the cats, dogs and flowers.

Plasticene on a board with a litle rolling pin and plastic knife.

What are the earliest games you can remember...:D

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For me Tiddlywinks and playing `mirp`s or marbles

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Whip and top, skipping rope. Both of these used to keep me occupied for hours.

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Snap.

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what was that card game where you had to get rid of an old woman,you just kept passing her on? Loser has the card at the end of the game

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Old maid

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Thanks Sue that`s right.
Games night for us when we were kids was usually Sunday night.Snakes and ladders,chinese checkers,Monopoly,but we had a fold away table with a green baize top-Mum`s card table,rummy,whist,Cashy`s game Snap,we couldn`t wait to play,seemed such happy times.....

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Outside it was tinny, hide and seek, marbles, inside escalado, rummy, dominoes, we also used to make rag carpets.

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i remember all those games...you got the clay pipes from the tobacconists,,,
i remember my dad making a game called Bagatelle for xmas,,we had hours of fun with that

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Find the lady, then it graduated to Poker:rolleyes:

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Sunday night was cards night in our house too - but for my parents not us! They used to play bridge with a couple of neighbours every week. Wonder how many households these days have a card table?

We did play cards as a family usually at Christmas, Newmarket was a favourite. And we had Chinese checkers, I do remember that, and snakes and ladders and happy families.

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On the same theme susie, I wonder if anybody still plays games like Monopoly, Cluedo and other Waddington Games, then there's chess (not my game unfortunately) draughts even good old dominoes, anybody still got a cribbage board, not to mention a dart board

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Whip and top was definitely out of fashion when i was little. I do remember getting a bagatelle for one xmas and playing Tiddlywinks too.

Lots of card games too.
Had a good game called "Hand's Down" which was a seventies thing and we used to pley Kerplunk too, as well as the usual Monopoly and Cluedo.
Used to play a lot of Draughts with my Grandad too but he was a terrible cheat!

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My other half still plays dominoes and crib for pub teams when he gets the chance. We don't play at home as I'm not keen, was put off all cards etc especially bridge as my parents were such fanatics. They put me off smoking too for similar reasons - no bad thing!

My brother used to play chess at county level once upon a time.

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At my son's house Monopoly, chess and scrabble are played fairly often.
My stepgrandaughter was a little piqued when I beat her at Scrabble.
I recently donated my boxed Backgammon set to them (I have no-one to play it with)

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Ya know Margaret Backgammon is a game I've never played or for that matter even seen played, certainly don't know the rules, I no its played on board with counters of some sort, from seeing it on TV and films

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We have a lovely backgammon set which my other half brought back from North Africa, played it once, not really into board games.

Only played Cluedo once, don't mind Monopoly if there are lots of folks playing and they're all drunk enough.

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A treasured family heirloom of mine is a box of Ivory dominoes which belonged to my Paternal Grandparents. They were given it during WW2 as a blackmarket exchange for some meat -they had a butcher's shop!

I remember being taught to play Chess by friend Charlotte's dad, Geoff -they had a board which was built into a little table with a drawer for the pieces.

Never played Backgammon but I love Scrabble -I have no-one to play with either Margaret:(:rolleyes::D

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Favourite game.

I'm in charge, and you do everything I tell you to.

:D

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Yes master:notworthy:notworthy:notworthy:worthy::D

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Has anyone ever told you, you can be a right pain in the....:rolleyes::D

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What, is it a guessing game ? Giv'us a clue, how many words ? ;)

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No, they'd be too afraid their G.M. club membership card would have be taken off them, and they'd be thrown out.

Yes, there was one.

Sad but true.

I remember at one meeting in the club house, one member wondered whether we'd ever rival the scouting movement.

As membership peaked at twelve members, this seemed unlikely.

Though I could always start another recruitment drive.

:rolleyes::D

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More seriously, most games were just made up.

The landing half-way up the stairs was a stage coach. We loved that, but we had to be quiet, as we weren't really allowed to play on the stairs.

Our parents did an overnight make over on the wash house, and turned it into a farm. That was great, growing crops, and looking after pigs made out of catering containers.

Making dens. Either indoors if the weather was bad, under the stairs being a favourite place, or in the fields behind the house, which had dry stone walls, and thatched roofs.

Digging for treasure, on archaelogical expeditions.

Expeditions through 'jungles'. Which in reality were just over grown hedges, or waste land.

Building sky-scrapers, when the farmer had had the combine harvester out in the fields we backed onto, but hadn't yet collected the bales of hay.

Alway trying to make new means of communication. Walkie talkies fettled out of tins, invisible ink made from the juice of onions.

Other favourite games, which we'd play for hours, was 'Whirlpool' in which you'd spend ages running/swimming one way round the swimming pool, until you'd got a strong current going, and then you'd let yourself get swept round when someone shouted 'Whirlpool!' Better if you had extra friends with you. 'Tidal Wave' was the same, but you got the current going length wise, as opposed to round.

Board games, were the usual selection, ludo, snakes and ladders etc, though I did like Haunted House, where a ball was dropped down the chimney, and had the option of setting off various things, including traps.

Everything else was arty, and involved making things.

First toy I remember, which I loved was a model of Camberwick Green, with all the figures, which I got for my second birthday.

Occasionally, after tea on Sunday, the best game ever, 'Bish Bash'.

A rare treat we looked forward to. Which was us two, and Dad, locked in no-holds barred 'play fighting'. With Mum as referee, deciding when the contest had ended. Which was usually when tempers got frayed, and accusations of another participant not 'playing fair'.

Happy days.

:)

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I'm two again.

I've just found Camberwick Green.

Codeg Camberwick Green Village Set: To consist of... | Toys & Militaria | Mullock's Auctions

There must have been two more sets, because mine had twelve buildings.

I haven't seen it for over forty years.

My eyes have misted over, with the magic it represented to me once.

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Would have been a good match -luckily I was the one setting the rules in DMC's den, down the back's, behind Dill Hall Lane...:rolleyes::D

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The landing in my Grandparent's house in Exchange Street was a River infested with crocodiles.:eek:

Had completely forgotten Haunted House -though the traps rarely worked well -wasn't there a sort of basket that caught a mouse as well? Or was that another game...

Don't know the Camberwick Green Game -had Rupert the Bear Annuals then and Winnie the Pooh -I always got a lot of books...

Never heard of Bish-Bash -we must play it together , sounds fun -hope you won't cheat and make up the rules to suit you -i trust you implicitly, of course.:rolleyes:

As a family we were big fans of "Frustration" -am a dab hand at getting Six;) Still have my old board and brought up my boys to play it. Nothing like a bit of Frustration...

PS Like the idea of you playing Indiana Jones...:D

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You are such a big softie ...(((((Mwa))))) x;)

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Do you mean Mousie Mousie...

http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/...ch_word=&catId

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Or this?

Mouse Trap (board game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Which we didn't have.

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Haunted House board game.

THE COBWEBBED ROOM: DENYS FISHER HAUNTED HOUSE board game 1970's

http://freeemoticonsandsmileys.com/a...ry%20ghost.gif

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what do you mean CAN BE:D

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That's the one -we didn't have it either. A neighbouring family had it and a game called Buckaroo and Operation where you had to lift little bones out without making it buzz!

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Wonderful games -I wonder where they all ended up...probably sold on at a jumble sale...

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My years in the diplomatic service Jay;):D

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Does anyone remember the game Beetle where you had to throw a dice and build up a plastic beetle -you got a piece every time you threw a six. Beetle drives were very popular once over. I tried to find this game for my son's when they were little but they didn't make it like that anymore -only with cards and you made up a beetle that way. Took quite a lot of doing i remember, all those fiddly legs to stick in!

Think it was a Spear's games original...

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Yes, we had one.

Just the same as the beetle drive game, except you made, rather than drew the beetle.

I went to a beetle drive at a friend's church, and won first prize of a squirble.

Which I mentioned on this thread.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ves-28908.html

:D

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Squirmles!

Not squirbles.

Nowstalgic Toys | The Original Squirmle | Magic Pet | Magic Worm | The Magical Pet| Magic Twisty | Wurli Worm | Ball Wizard | Squirmles

SQUIRMLES/THE OFFICIAL SQUIRMLES WEBSITE/SQUIRMLES MAGICAL PETS/SQUIRMELS/SQUIRMLE/MAGIC WIGGLEE WORM/WIGGLEE WORMS/MAGIC TWISTY/WURLI WURMW

Was a rubbish prize.

They weren't really alive.

Should have gone for the bottle of sherry.

:D

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During the few years I was doing the school run and making the tea for my three primary school grandchildren, I was entrusted with the care of a Tamagotchi which was accidentaly left with me over a weekend.

Tamagotchi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My young grandson gave me instruction over the phone and I fed and shovelled crap for the little blighter for two days. I know he had an irrational devotion to that little gadget, and I didn't realise that, if neglected, it just 'died' but would 'live again'.

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Oooh, lucky you!

I never had a squirmel -i did however have a Slinky:D

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Read your description of the game -had forgotten that each piece had to be won by throwing a different number...

It was a great party favourite with us.
Along with musical chairs, blind man's buff and "all pile on"!

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What a load of boring crappy games, Proper games were Nick,Nack, but first balancing n empty bottle of milk on the Door Handle n then leg it n peep from around the corner, yeh never lived.:D Was even better in the Pea Soup Fog we used to get, Yeh could stand about15ft away n laugh when front door opened n yeh could see em in the light, the faces when the bottle smashed in front of em lol

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Was i called that, because once you were nicked, you realised you were knacked?

:D

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Outside games were:- whip and top(tops decorated with coloured chalk if you 6d to spare)......skipping games, cowboys and Indians...goodies and baddies......we made dens, played in the streams, caught sticklebacks, brought home hedgehogs which were banished from the house because they had fleas and red mites......hula hoops...hide and seek.....Knock and run, Swing from the lampost(or tree).

Inside games:- paper planes, thrown from the top of the stairs, hunt the thimble.....the usual board games.....except we usually were negligent in taking care of the dice, could never find one.

We didn't have the beetle game(a friend of mine did though) but played a game called kipper....a large fish shape was torn from a newspaper and another newspaper was used to make the fish move by hitting it with another rolled up newspaper...... we had races.......there was much cheating and falling out......Ma would rush in gather up the fish, hit us with the rolled up newspaper and throw the whole lot on the fireback.......game over!

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I always knew you were a vandal!!! :do-one:

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We found out where one of the most hated dinner ladies at school lived, me my friend Charlotte and my sister Denise -we all lived in terror of her and ate up our greens.

Went round playing nick-nack (without bottle as not vandals!) and when we got Knacked about the fifth time in one evening she turned out to be really nice and gave us all sweets...:o:D

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I'd forgotten about the fish game, until Marg P. mentioned it.

We used to play it at Sunday school Christmas parties, in teams.

Probably about four, with each team wafting a plaice made from brightly coloured tissue paper, along a course.

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We used to play this but not with a milk bottle we always picked the houses with young guys who'd come out and chase us - then we'd out run them, that was the buzz!

Marbles was another game I recall playing a lot, we loved our colored marbles and sometimes ball bearings played it a lot at junior school.

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Hopscotch too...we played that. Didn't need anything other that the pavement and a bit of a stone(which was used to write the numbers on the flags and as a marker).
Two balls as well...up against the wall......must admit, wasn't much good at this game.

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Glad someone else was as useless at two balls as I was! ;)

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They used to shout to me at games 'get a bucket' or 'ask your Ma to stitch the hole in your hands'....I was useless at sport, but maybe it was because I didn't like it.......any of it. It all seemed a bit pointless to me.

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We used to play Elastics for hours on end -in theory needed three to play but if one was missing a pair of chair legs would do instead. Can't for the life of me remember all the moves but some you had to land on the elastic in some and others inside or outside of it -must ask my best friend she was the real elastics fiend! I think you had to jump in to start and it was ankle height, then knee height and slowly got higher!

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I can remember 'Elastics' being played, but I think this might have been when my daughter was growing up....I don't remember playing it.
We used to play five stones too(also called jacks)....we didn't buy the metal jacks but used five small stones and a little rubber ball........I was rubbish at that game too.......anything to do with balls.

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Have always been good at ball games myself. Tennis, rounders, netball and table-tennis. it's all to do with hand to eye coordination.
We used to play a game called Cannon at school that was very popular -a team game but with a ball. Had to build up your teams cannon made of three little sticks -bit like a wicket i suppose but the opposing team got you out if they hit you with the ball -a tennis ball.

Just remembered another one, used to put a tennis ball in a sock or stocking and knock it on the wall behind you (back to the wall) while singing rhymes and bashing the ball about over you shoulders, between legs etc -now what on earth was that called?!:D