[James Gutierrez]

What was your go-to game as a kid?​

Quick question for the memory banks: what was your go-to game as a kid? Marbles? Elastics? Chasey until you were breathless and your mum yelled ‘Dinner!’ from the veranda?

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Leave a comment below and give us a blast from your past!

 

[Vet543]

I guess that not many poeple played game except on computers or games machines.
I am not boasting but (well maybe I am).
In 1956 I was the best player with marbles.
In the final term at school I won 2000 plus marbles,
even though that I was giving marbles to kids who weren't any good at playing, particularly the kids that lost the most. It was a bit like being the fastest gunslinger people just had to try to beat you but very few even came near.

 

[HelenJo]

My sister & I loved to play Hopscotch in our dirt driveway.

 

[TD]

Hopscotch
skipping on footpath

 

[Suzanne rose]

Had to be Elastics

Inside outside Scotland Wales

Also loved knuckles

 

[Barbara Finnegan]

Knuckles was one of our games ,along with marbles , all of us would get together to swap or show off our latest beauty ,the good old days , I later became a passionate pinball player ,the actual game is much more fun than the online one

 

[Anthony Rodman]

Kknuckles

 

[Mikev]

I liked lots of games but card games were always fun.
Especially knock/out euchre.

 

[Catherines]

Born & lived overseas until I was 22. We played a game called ‘Seven Tiles’. 7 flattish stones of varying sizes, built into a tower. One player stood ‘x’ metres away (yards in the good old days!!). Threw the tennis or other ball to try to knock the ‘tower’ down. If successful ran away & other players tried to hit you with the ball before you built up your ‘tower’ of 7 tiles again. A lot of fun & played on the footpath - not too many pedestrians or cars then! Some on this site may be able to relate.

 

[SharonS07]

I played concors, and elastics. It was fun in the good ol’ days. If we were really lucky we were allowed to swing on the Hills hoist, clothes line.
We played outdoors everyday with the kids on the block, but all had to be home by 6pm for dinner.

 

[Migjet1]

Mine was kurby. A game where you threw a soccer ball into the curb of the road so that it came straight back to you and you could catch it. You had to be very precise

 

[Lunagazer]

There were so many things to do when I was young. If in my cul de sac, I would use my pogo stick or scooter. If indoors I’d play mouse trap or monopoly or watch telly. On winter Saturdays I’d play team soccer. We walked everywhere via the canals (our shortcut highway) to Bankstown pool in summer or Rookwood cemetery to catch yabbies or Strathfield golf links to dive for golf balls. Sunday I’d be up at 5am to do my lucrative paper run & then maybe catch the bus/train to Royal National park.
In summer we would go Friday afternoon & camp overnight.
During the holidays, our family would go either north to South West Rocks or south to Sussex Inlet. Great days!

 

[TrishH]

There were so many! Hopscotch, skipping, elastics, dress ups! It was so much fun

 

[Elaine46]

I never had 1 go to game. It was anything and everything. It all depended on how many of us neighbourhood kids were outside. After school there was always a game playing you just joined in ( all was welcomed) and we would played until the sun went down.

 

[CCC]

My go to games were Marbles or Knucklebones (using real knucklebones saved from multiple roast legs of Lamb)

 

[sylfield]

I agree, elastics and knuckles.

 

[Suzanne rose]

 

[Donna May]

Hopscotch on the front concrete footpath with a very busy road of traffic zooming by & honking at us playing. Asking our neighbours if we could pick some Mulberries off their huge tree & coming home covered in blue/black juices with a bowl full for Mum. Great memories.

 

[Christine H.]

We would play across the road in the trees, there was a small creek that run though them, with a dam for deeper water. We had a rope swing going over the creek. I suppose it would be about a metre wide at that point. So you climbed a small hill grabbed the rope put the knot between your legs or just hung on, pushed off over the creek and let go, hoping to land safely on the other side. The inevitable often happen and we would end up in the creek.
I think my mother was very happy when we all grew up, I had one younger sister and five brothers with three being older. I was the middle child with four years on each side to my siblings. I spent alot of time with my older brothers.
We also had a Billy cart that we run down the hill, no brakes of course except for shoes or just feet.

 

[Daibhin]

What some on here have called hopscotch was to me, a scot, peever. The best peever was a rounded piece of marble, about an inch thick and three a cross, because we didn't throw ours we slid it, hopefully, to the box we needed to hit.

We also played skipping rope with one at each end and the rest of us jumping until we failed to clear it or, we lined up to go through one by one - too many variations to list them all.

And last but not least, doublers; that was bouncing two balls against a wall one after the other in a continuous motion, again until you missed.
Of course hide and seek was part of it.

Almost everything we played was done outdoors during the day, once dark it was indoor things. Being an only child a lot of my time was spent reading because there was no one to play games with after everyone had to go home - that's not a complaint, I loved reading and still do, can't go to sleep without a book to read.

As children then, we were always on the go.