365 Everyday Games and Pastimes
365 Everday Games and Pastimes is published by Square Peg and retails at £14.99
My thoughts:
Oh, I think this book is truly BRILLIANT we will never be bored again.
It is chock full of games and ideas for all occasions. Somewhere along the way we have forgotten a lot about playing and the Wii the compuer and the DS have stepped in. This book brings a hefty dose of reminiscing about the sheer joy of playtime. It’s great. It has party games, word games, memory games card and dice games. Games for parties, for in the car, for a rainy day …. for everything!It is also great to just dip in to and find inspiration.
I remember playing Cheat in the 6 th form at school but I couldn’t remember how…I remember playing Sevens with a tennis ball up by Grandads shed hour after hour and I remember Whats the Time Mr Wolf? played endlessly in the playground at school but again i had forgotten quite how. This book bought it all back..
This book is nostaglgic, useful and full of history and tradition and I guarantee it will becomne well used and well loved. What a top family Christmas gift it would make too.
Competition
I have been given a copy of this super book to give to one of you.
Just tell me your favourite childhood game?
Competition ends Friday 12th Nov 2010. Uk and ireland entrants only pls. 1 entry per person.
I’m scared to think what ‘family time’ will be like in the future – don’t fancy playing family wii games really. at all. perhaps a little SNES here and there but definitely more board games – love Cluedo, monopoly and SCRABBLE!
However, those times when you just want to play something with pen and paper at school or at a sleepover (or even at Uni) the best game has to be Consequences. Results in hilarious stories about people you may or may not know and strange but possible storylines. The picture version is also a fave (draw head, fold, pass-on, body, fold pass-on legs then feet and occasionally with their pet). Love it.
Oooh my favourite game as a child was probably operation or buckaroo, those are the two that i remember most anyway 🙂
Hide and Seek, with my dad, he could hide anywhere
I loved playing Hopscotch
I love Monopoly although no-one seems to want to play the game anymore as it seems to go on forever
I loved hopscotch. The brilliant thing is that it cost nothing, just neededa piece of chalk and a stone.
My favourite was Mousetrap. Took forever to set up and keep the trap from falling down but loved it none the less – happy days! x
monopoly my favourite
Screwball Scramble – loved it!
The game I loved as a child was “Elastic” . For those not in the know this involved getting some elastic (the type you have threaded through waist of skirt etc !) Then you tied a knot in it and then 2 of us stood about 4 ft apart with it around are ankles and then the 3rd would do a set sequence starting at the ankle level and if you were really good getting up to waist level !!! God reading this back sounds weird but it was BRILL !! Honest !
I used to love elastics and hopstotch – though was trying to remember some elastics games for my daughter during the summer and could hardly think of any
Hide and Seek
Monopoly. But it just doesn’t seem the same as an adult.
Tag.
ooh had to be kissycat either that or skipping theres was millions of games to play with skipping ropes 🙂
hide and seek – I always hid under the bed, collecting all the dust…
As a child I used to love MOUSETRAP. Every year I put it on my list to Santa, but I never got it because my Mum & Dad thought it would be a ‘two minute wonder’. When I had kids of my own, I bought it for them. They’re not keen, but I still love it!
I can;t remember what we called it but it was a cross between hide-and-seek and tag. Who ever was ‘it’ had to find you but also protect thier base, so it was a balance between hiding close enough to touch base, but not too close that they could find you and shout your location out. I loved that game.
Got to be TAG, all that anticipation of getting caught and then doing the chasing, would love a game now 30 years later!
I loved skipping with the rhymes – the sort of skipping where two “enders” hold the rope and turn it – I loved “All in together girls” and ones with lots of actions ike “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear”.
I loved hopscotch – you could just play all day. Tried to get my daughter to paly but just not interested
Hop Scotch, I used to play for hours on my own, outside the front of my house.
I think stop the bus was 1 of my favourites
Kiss chase!
I use to love making houses out of a pack of cards. I use to spend hours carefully leaning them against and on top of one another. My dad could do it really well and made huge towers of them.
Thanks for the chance to win XXx
My favourite game like many others was Hopscotch so simple yet so competitive
My favourite game was Hide and Seek,my kids all love playing it now.
My favourite childhood game has to be Operation or Connect 4! 🙂
i used to luv playing hide and seek when i was a child, or kiss chase, i could never run that fast though lol
My favourite game as a child was Mousetrap. I used to love putting it all together.
Snakes and Ladders 😀
Good Luck Everyone xxx
Hide and Seek was always my favourite!!
i love plaing ‘shop’ as a hild, making my own shop and dishing out the sweeties! 🙂
I loved skipping with a group of friends, skipping to rhymes
can’t remember what is was called but my mum used to chop one of the legs off an old pair of tights , I put a tennis ball all the way to the toe part then used to spend hours with my back to the wall bouncing it from side to side up and down in time to chanting rhymes – my friends and I used to have competitions as to how fast we could do it!
Love the idea of different games. great prize
I was very hooked on Ludo and wanted to play it endless with my
poor long suffering family.
I have great memories of family Monopoly, Cluedo and scrabble sessions.
As an adult, I still love playing scrabble with my partner. After a long Sunday walk we often come back for a game of scrabble in front of the fire with big mugs of tea and toasted tea cakes.
monopoly
I used to love playing cowboys and indiaans with my brother, as for board games it would have to be cluedo
Stick in the Mud
I loved downfall. I had to convince my older brother to play i with me as I am not sure he enjoyed it as much as I did even though he always won.
Not sure if you mean a playground game or board game so…
Whats the time Mr Wolf or Pop up pirate
It has to be MOUSETRAP, we had so much fun with that game, the simple games were the best….
monopoly – quite the little tycoon!
i used to love ludo still do ha ha
my roller boots yeh brill
I used to love a game we called ‘Polo’ where someone who was ‘it’ said “Jenny ran across the road and fell into a ________ shop”. Then you’d all think of something you’d buy in that shop, the person who was ‘it’ would choose one and if yours was chosen you’d have to race them. If you won you’d then be ‘it’. Make sense?
When we got bit older we loved ‘Manhunt’. It was like hide n seek but you had to get to base without being tigged.
Monopoly, my gran my sister and i used to play it every saturday
I used to LOVE Playing Ludo….brings back great memories of playing games as a family.
I used to love playing “elastic” . Also board games like Monopoly or cluedo, and card games too.
Treasure Hunt! Where my Dad left clues around the house which eventually led to 50p if we were lucky 😀
hop scotch……over and over and over again!
Game Of Life. Use to love playing it.
Make believe was mine and my sisters favourite game, pretending to be princesses or queens!
Bagatelle. I loved the zig-zagging marbles and the different noises they made when they hit the metal nails.
Jacks was my fav. I remember how proud I was of the little cloth bag with pullup string that contained my set, & how competative everyone got.
monopoly
I spent wet days during school holidays playing Monopoly with a friend. Games could last for days!
Monopoly with my younger sister. She always won though!
Guess Who
mouse trap was the best game ever, although took for ever to assemble
coppit
SNAP!
My favourite game was a board game called Matching Pairs.
Skipping using elastic bands, can’t remember the name of it, but great fun 🙂
I always enjoyed playing dominoes with my day.
hop scotch!
I used to love Mousetrap
cowboys
French Cricket
The Brit Quiz – watching my family do daft things was priceless
snap
skipping
tag
Kims game: A number is small items are put on a tray and covered with a cloth. The cloth is lifted for 15 seconds whilst you try and memorise the items. The cloth is replaced and an item is removed. The tray is returned to the table and the cloth removed and you have to guess which itme was removed. Great fun 🙂
Hide and Seek!
The game I play with my children is a treasure hunt, which started out as an Easter thing, but they enjoyed it so much it continued! I find it hard these days though as I am running out of hiding places!!!! I used to spend hours writing clues – mostly rhyme clues sometimes cryptic sometimes maths involved – they loved it!!!!!! ( problem was they did it all the time and things got hidden and they couldn’t remember where they hid them!- I still haven’t found the old remote!!!!! lol)
I loved playing the mouse trap board game – took half the night to set up and 10 seconds to destroy !
what time is it mr wolf !!
Schools! I’d take the register and ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my class all the time!
MY fave game as a child.. probably ludo 🙂
Hopscotch.
My fave pastime was playing jacks – even if I scraped my knuckles on the concrete garden path each time I tried to pick up the jacks, ooooooooooooh the pain, it was so worth it. No-one plays that anymore.
My favourite childhood game was ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’. I always liked to be the wolf – It’s DINNERTIME!!!!! =)
Snakes and Ladders 🙂
Conkers for me….Bit of a Tomboy!
We played Rounders. There were a few kids of different ages in the street but the older ones made sure the teams were even. Some how we managed never to break any windows.
Guess who
hungry hippos!
Author
OH and me rounders was our top game!
Connect 4 🙂
My Favourite childhood game was Kerplunk!
We loved Othello – simple concept but great fun
frustration
Hop Scotch
Buckaroo
I used to love pretending to work in a library – sad I know! The stairs were my bookshelves and I would line all my books up on them. I made little tickets that I put inside all the books and kept a record of who checked out each book (luckily I had 3 sisters who were my “customers”!) I would play this for hours on end.
Buckaroo
It was a game called Bewitched, it was actually my Brothers but we both loved it!
Me and my sister used to love playing ‘Castles’ – we would huddle up in bed and kind of ruche the quilt into a big pile and all the creases would be ‘rooms’. I’m always amazed when I think back and remember how much time a pile of quilt would take up!
I loved ludo.
I loved Simon Says & Domino Rally
I used to have a board game called “Alley Cats”, which I loved. I can’t remember much about it except that you had to go and get fish bones out of the dustbins (I think!)
snakes and ladders
Not a board game but I loved playing Cops and Robbers
Used to love playing jacks – the ball always kept bouncing too far!
I loved (and still do) Monopoly. My Mum got so fed up with playing it with me, I had to improvise and played against my toys! What can I say, we lived in the country and I didn’t have many other options.
we always stopped at my nans for school holidays and we was brought up on ludo
I used to love playing my dog has fleas!
operation!
My favourite game was Monopoly, as long as I won!
I loved playing Snap and Happy Families!!
Hide and seek. (Mum didn’t like it in the shopping centre though!!!)
Screwball Scramble! – Loved it!
Battleships with a friend, untold hours of great fun of virtual ship blowing up
Hop Scotch
The Game of Life, played it all the time with my friends but life certainly didn’t turn out like the game lol !
I used to love Connect 4, infact I still do
Snakes and ladders
Kpunk – me and my sister use to play for hours
Mousetrap
I loved to play with my slinky, i would race them down the stairs with my brother and sister, we had great fun
For me it was Monopoly. I could spend days playing it especially the City version.
Still try and play now and hopefully my kids will enjoy it as much as I did. Pity about the fake cash.
Battleships
Our parents made a lot of our toys. I remember having a marble run, a sit on train, one of those games they had in pubs where you swung a weight on a chain to knock down the pins, and lots more. Galt toys were very popular christmas presents too, chinese puzzles and that gooey stuff that blew up into ‘balloons’.
Frustration – caused no end of fights in our house!!
I loved Snakes and ladders!!! Always wanted to land on the biggest ladder, but always landed on the biggest snake and back down I went! booooooo! lol x
Monopoly, which as a single child I used to play against my cuddly toy Snoopy!
LOVE LOVE LOVE UNO!
I always loved Monopoly and still do (as long as i’m winning) x
Buckaroo – the accessories flew all over the place!
snakes and ladders
Operation! Loved that game, still do! 🙂
One of our favourite games was draughts and when we were older we loved playing monopoly
my brother and I used to set up a variety of ‘fairground stalls’ in the garden and invite the neighbours to compete. nobody ever accepted the invitation – but we enjoyed them all the same!! my favourite was picking off pegs from the an elastic line with one hand without dropping them 🙂
Its got to be Mousetrap .. it was new on the market and seemed so exciting especially filling a tub of water ( with mums agreement ) after all who would dive into an empty tub?
hop scotch was my favorite game
I loved playing card games
I used to love playing jacks 🙂
I loved Marjong, I have such fond memories of playing this with my grandparents.
My favourite board game was a little known one called Escape from Atlantis where you had to get your little men away from a sinking island to the coral reefs before sharks, sea dragons and ocotpi got you!! Board games were so much more inventive when I was younger!!
My favourite outdoor game was British Bulldog!
Monopoly is still my fav apart from no one will pay it any more with me. Aparently too completative. I also remember Alley Cats does anyone know where you can get hold of it. I think my kids would love it.
I loved skipping with long elastic. The elastic was kept in position by two girls around their legs, and the girl in the middle had to jump, cross legs and do complicated manouvres and then come out of it, legs free! I don’t know if the game had a name but I know that my daughter doesn’t play those kind of games in the playground. What a shame, it’s good exercise too!
snakes and ladders
Guess who!! Really fancied Max – not sure the tash is really that fashionable now!
operation
I used to love playing Monopoly , although sometimes it seemed to go on for days 🙂
guess who – nice quick game and easy to clear up – perfect 🙂
MY BEST GAME OF ALL TIME WHEN I WAS YOUNGER WAS KAPLUNK AS THE TENSE MOMENT BEFORE YOU STRAW WAS TAKEN OUT SO SLOWLEY WAS MAGICAL YOU WERE SO NERVIOUS TO THINK THAT YOU WOULD HAVE ALL THE MARBELS WAS NERVE RACKING
Murder in the Dark – it was sort of like playing Cludo for real, although I can’t remember how we played it – perhaps it’s in the book?
When I was younger and times were hard
You could never beat run outs in our back yard
snakes and ladders
I loved hide and seek
Buckaroo 🙂
Definately tiddlywinks, had hours of fun and laughter playing them
Marbles
LUDO
I loved pass the pigs a silly game which involved throwing 2 plastic pigs and depending how they landed you got points it was a great saturday night family game that had me and my sisters in giggles!
Monopoly!
loved twister
murder mystery
I loved elastics- a big circle of elastic that we took turns at holding whilst the others jumped in and out of and was the opposite to limbo – great fun!
monopoly
Hide and Seek 🙂
my favourite game when i was very young was B.I.N.G.O. with ina nd out go dusty bluebell as a close second.
You couldn’t beat a gameof 45! Based on hide and seek but always counting for 45 secs! Great to play with grandparents! It’s amazing where they can get! My 90 year old Grandmother hid on my top bunk! Needless to say it took a lot longer than 45 seconds to find her!
it was hopscotch we could play for hours and made lots of different pattens to jump around.
My favourite childhood game was die game called GREED it was fantastic & we have recently found it again on ebay & it is still AMAZING!! I’m reliving my childhood!
i loved mousetrap, they also made a tv show of it, with a lifesize version of the game!
Spacehopper showjumping! Amazing what could be achieved with buckets, garden canes, broom handles and anything else to hand that could build a small hurdle!
I used to love playing marbles.
A card game siiliar to trumps called Sgt Major. ONly 3 people could play so meant my Dadand broher had to play to have a game. Usually whilst mum coked Sunday lunch
I used to love holidays as a child playing French cricket on the beach 🙂
I used to love playing a boardgame called SORRY.
My favourite has to be Kerplunk
all time classic – monopoly
i loved playing cluedo. i love all the old games and try to get my 7year old into them. think they are so much better than computer games!!
Mousetrap – although we never played the boring game making the Mousetrap was great!
it was kiss chase i always wanted to be caught and be kissed by a nie boy
Definitely hide and seek. I grew up on a farm, lived in a large house and with a twin sister, the game could go on all day.
The best hide was when we were at a friend’s house and I lay on one of the shelves in the airing cupboard under the towels. My friend’s mum came in and put more washing on top and didn’t realise I was there.
I had to come out eventually as they couldn’t find me.
I used to love playing sevens in the back garden used to drive my mum mad with me constantly bouncing a tennis ball up the wall! OOOOhhhh those were the days
Cat’s Cradle. Could be made out of your mum’s knicker elastic! A cheap and entertaining game for when times are hard.
has to be snap
Naughts and Crosses! we lived a sheltered life.
A game we made up called follow Fabian (cat that lived next door) We pinned a long piece of cord to resemble a tail to our trousers and then had to follow him wherever he went. If he went through a gap in a hedge or climbed a tree so did we.
hopscotch
what’s the time Mr Wolf
I loved and still do hide and seek
Mousetrap as a board game! But the old classis Hide and Seek was always a winner, so much fun to be had finding somewhere to hide and not be found!