Mondays Question of the Day - June 16, 2014

Happy Monday everyone.

What was your favorite game to play as a kid?

I think I was a typical little girl; I loved hop scotch and jump rope and things like that.  But it was so much fun when neighborhood kids would get together and play things like Red Rover or flashlight tag.  Some cousins of mine lived on sort of an inverted cul-de-sac with nice big yards between their neighbors and no fences.  It was semi rural there; but somehow plenty of kids.  I loved visiting there in the summer when we could play ALL day and even into the night sometimes.  Good times!

I also loved board games like Life and Monopoly!

Elastics. We played them all the way from infants school and on into high school.

And Knocky Eye Doors (Knicky nine doors, whatever else it's called).

We had a ton of fun knocking about getting up to all kinds of trouble 

At night during the summer, it was all hide 'n seek outside. I remember Red Rover. We used to catch fireflies, too.There was always a bunch of us kids in the neighborhood and we were always out and about til around 10:30 or so, til our parents made us all come inside for baths and bed. Softball, riding bikes...my mom said orange was probably my favorite color because she was constantly putting merthiolate on all my cuts and scratches from falling off my bike. There was an old embankment not too far away from our house....we called it the Indian Pit and we were in there with our bikes, riding down the hills with no hands. I fell all the time, but it never stopped me. I'd go home bleeding and Mom would be horrified. She'd clean me up and then I'd go back to the Pit with my bike. I was quite the tomboy, I guess.

The year I was going into 6th grade, a new family moved in down the road. There were four kids and the older girl was my age. Her older brother and I started a Monopoly game that summer and we'd probably have the record for the longest single game....it went on for over a month. He'd come over around 6:30 or so every morning and holler for me outside our bedroom window. I'd get up and we'd spend the day in our carport with Monopoly. We kept printing money and used all kinds of things for houses and hotels. It was hilarious. Dad would come home from work and there'd be Kim and I, on the picnic table in the carport, arguing over North Carolina Avenue (it was my favorite property....always liked the green ones.) To this day, Monopoly is one of my favorite board games, along with Scrabble.

I remember Life. We had a game called Finance, too. Go to the Head of the Class was another one.

My dad taught me to play Canasta and it's remained my favorite card game. I never, ever beat my Dad in Canasta....and I really tried, too. Never did. Even when he was older and he and I would play for hours, I couldn't beat him. That man could read cards like nobody I've ever known. (I taught my son how to play and he and I would play Canasta all night long on weekends. But we would argue....it got so bad one night that in the middle of the night, Rick came out into the kitchen and took our cards away. We were shocked, but he told us that if we couldn't play nice, we couldn't play at all. But that's how we played....we played for blood. And that's how Rick and I play Scrabble, too. It's serious. You would not want to play Scrabble with Rick and me. It's not pretty.)

Now that our grandchildren are older, we play Chutes and Ladders and CandyLand with them. I always liked CandyLand.

Freezetag and Marco Polo, but I have a soft spot for Candy Land too. I haven't played it in a good decade though! Life is kinda fun too, and might be a favourite of board games.

Playing outside and creating historical worlds that my friends and I would act out, from the Roman/Egyptian Empire to the French Revolution and beyond, having mock battles, living a court life, or trying to survive something. Was really fun! Huge imaginations. We were lucky that our backyards had space, with forests, fields and jungle gyms. Played a lot of historical figures too. 

During gym class, for whatever reason I always loved that (Ack for the life of me I can't remember what it is officially called) game where everyone is in a circle, and they shake a large rainbow canopy together. It was fun doing it and travelling under it, trying to find or run from someone if we were playing tag.
 

And of course, there were many other games that I enjoyed too.

Playing with My Little Pony.. and I still do!

I don't think I had a favorite game. I was never really a "game" person. I was more into crafty stuff. I likes the Spirograph, Light Bright, & little pottery wheel. 

Well, Now that I think about It, my sister, friends, & I used to play school sometimes, but I always had to be the teacher! LOL! 

Ooh, I totally forgot about Light Bright! I didn't have one, but I was jealous of the kids who did. I loved Connect 4 too, but I lost a bunch of the chips.. as was the fate of any multi-piece toy that ever spent time in our house after I was born.

I had lite bright too! Loved it!! I kept the pegs in a Polly-o cheese container lol

We were on bicycles, in the creeks, playing in water sprinklers, anything to burn off energy.  I wish I had that energy again!  We didn't play a lot of board games.  If it was cold and raining we made forts inside and stuff.  Or played Barbie.

I don't remember. We had nothing like you lot.