What's a childhood game you loved that today's kids never play?

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Head_Effect3728@reddit

We played this great game called Smear, uhhh, the kid with the ball. More of a right of passage then a game but great fun nonetheless

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Cycoviking69@reddit

I think "queer" is the word you're looking for.

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Head_Effect3728@reddit

Doesn’t ring a bell

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Upper_Economist7611@reddit

Capture the Flag

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lylydazzle@reddit

Our neighborhood would play, one street vs another. Kids of all ages played. I was one of the younger ones so I would be the sacrificial distraction while the bigger kids tried to get across.

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Upper_Economist7611@reddit

Yes! Me too. Always one of the sacrifices! But I almost never got to stay up late enough to play, so I was always a big deal when I was allowed!

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oldschool_potato@reddit

Those finger crunching little carts you either laid on or sat on. When we sat on them we played crabs with a giant ball and you had to kick it in the goal

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samizdat5@reddit

Oh yes I remember that - like square skateboards? Those were fun.

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oldschool_potato@reddit

Yes!

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myystic78@reddit

Tetherball! I loved playing, a lot of times by myself. I don't have kids, so I don't know if it's still a thing or not.

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Lower_Classroom835@reddit

Elastics - mostly popular with girls.

Elastic band stretch between two players legs. and third one jumps in and moves the elastic with their legs singing a rhyme while moving the elastic in rhythmically.

Haven't seen it in decades.

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BrandyBunch805@reddit

I think we called this Chinese Jumproap

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Lower_Classroom835@reddit

We called it Mississippi, but there are different names and Chinese Jumproap seems to be the most known. I spent so much time playing it as a kid in the 70s.

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BringMeTwo@reddit

In out side side ON!

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Imuglyndumb@reddit

Pinners ...

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ImaSource@reddit

Flashlight tag through the neighborhood. Kick the can. Red Rover possibly. Cops/Robbers or Cowboys/Indians with sticks we found as weapons.

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UneducatedDonkey@reddit

Global thermonuclear war.

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BringMeTwo@reddit

How about a nice game of chess?

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turnpike37@reddit

Joshua? That you?

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verdant-forest-123@reddit

Red Rover

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Hotmailet@reddit

Came here to say this

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BrandyBunch805@reddit

Me too!

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murrayshannon@reddit

Butts Up

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Marbles

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