When you played games and somebody had to be it, what were the methods you used to determine who was it?
Posted by TickingTheMoments@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 47 comments
When I was a kid, we always used to play games like tag, hide and seek, kick the can. We used various methods to determine who was it. one potato, two potato. engine engine number nine, in a bink a bottle of ink. NOT IT!
What were the different methods of your childhood that you used to determine who was it?
do your kids use these methods these days?
FerretAgreeable2520@reddit
When playing pickup baseball the 2 captains would toss an upside down bat one to another. He would catch it with one hand. They would then take turns grabbing the bat and whoever got the knob got first pick.
sermitthesog@reddit
Tag. You’re it.
DryFoundation2323@reddit
What to say that it did not involve tigers.
UnplannedProofreader@reddit
Omg. I blocked this from memory.
Komaisnotsalty@reddit
Same. Couldn't type what we used to use to sort out 'it'
J0HNNY_CHICAG0@reddit
Icka-Bicka soda cracker was common.
Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit
can you finish it? it's new to me
J0HNNY_CHICAG0@reddit
Icka-Bicka soda cracker,
Icka-Bicka boo.
Icka-Bicka soda cracker,
Out goes Y-O-U. 👆👆👆
...keep doing this for the remaining players. Last one not Out is It.
UnplannedProofreader@reddit
We said ackah-backah soda crackah
J0HNNY_CHICAG0@reddit
We probably said it that way on our block only. One kid heard it and we ran with that!
I remember playing spud with some kids from school that lived a couple of blocks from me. They had stuff I'd never heard.
Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit
I can't wait for my second childhood. I'll be reciting this.
TickingTheMoments@reddit (OP)
This wasn’t one in my neighborhoods lexicon.
BusyDark7674@reddit
"Ip dip dog shit you are not it" until you had one left
C-coli85@reddit
I volunteered.
Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit
Whoever was the biggest dork
trUth_b0mbs@reddit
"NOT IT!"
"eeny meeny miney mo catch a tiger by the toe..."
KrofftSurvivor@reddit
Are there GenXers with little kids?!?
Better thee than me, I guess.
But my grandkid doesn't play tag because 'school doesn't let us play chase each other~
LayerNo3634@reddit
I was part of a group of 5 families (small group at church). We wanted to raise our kids more like we grew up. The kids grew up playing hide and seek at night, chase, etc. They advanced to fireworks and BB gun wars. I remember a few minor injuries, nothing too serious. The kids all had sleep overs though high school.. Every kid had 10 parents. Those parents are my best friends, and the kids remain close to each other and us. At my daughter's recent baby shower, she wanted a picture with all of her moms!
believe_in_dog@reddit
I’m 50 with a 10 year old. He plays “manhunt” at school with his friends which I think is essentially tag. I’ll have to ask him how they determine who’s it!
TickingTheMoments@reddit (OP)
This one. My son is seven. The universe said one of two things to me. “You are finally ready to be a father.” Or “Yeah….youve been self centered. You get a kid!”
LayerNo3634@reddit
We did "one potato..." My kids did rock, paper scissors.
Quix66@reddit
Flipped a coin or rock paper, scissors.
oddball_ocelot@reddit
Either Train Train No 9 or Bubblegum Bubblegum In a Dish.
tango421@reddit
Forgot what it’s called but we had one where we called and then it would be hand up or down. In groups the majority would be excused and the last one remaining would be “it.”
If there were two left at the end, they’d finish it off with rock, paper, scissors.
Reddiculusness@reddit
NOT IT !
TakkataMSF@reddit
Not it!
Trike117@reddit
Typically I chose but sometimes we’d do eeny-meeny.
nasaspacebaby@reddit
Eeny meeny miney mo…
Optimal-Ad-7074@reddit
I forgot one potato 😋
Only_Presentation758@reddit
The meanest kid said who’s it and that was that
DrKlahnsRightHandMan@reddit
One potato, two potato, eeny meeny miny mo, or bubble gum bubble gum in a dish
jvlpdillon@reddit
Ink-a-bink bottle if ink cork fell out and you stink.
SmashEmWithAPhone@reddit
Not because you're dirty. Not because you're clean. Just because you kissed a girl behind a magazine.
JayHawkPhrenzie@reddit
ONE....TWO....THREE.......NOT IT!
sidewaysbynine@reddit
This is the one
hocfutuis@reddit
I remember 'Ip dip dog shit, I think you are It' being used, but I can't remember the non sweary versions. I was polite back then, and didn't swear, which is probably why it stuck
TickingTheMoments@reddit (OP)
That’s a new one to me.
hocfutuis@reddit
I grew up in North Yorkshire, so it could've just been a regional thing.
pcm15@reddit
‘My mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes, my mother punched your mother right in the nose…’
TickingTheMoments@reddit (OP)
What color was the blood?
Fantastic. I forgot about this one.
You_Need_Jesus_JD@reddit
One potato, two potato, three potato, four...
DoookieMaxx@reddit
Typically the biggest bitch of that day. “Screw you Tyler, you’re it.”
TickingTheMoments@reddit (OP)
Hahahahaha
Quintipluar@reddit
Situations that called for random selection were resolved with coin flips, rock paper scissors, or eenie meanie
Specific_Echidna8292@reddit
Rock, paper, scissors
AryuOcay@reddit
Bubble gum, bubble gum, in a dish, how many pieces do you wish? I can’t imagine my kids doing this.
TickingTheMoments@reddit (OP)
I forgot about this one.