Paper football. Once they banned it but we had a teacher who let us play anyway. My friend and I were on the floor going at it when the principal walked right in-- looming over me and gave us a deterntion.
Found the rules of pencil break or as they call it Pencil fight on Wikipedia. Too funny. God i remember the fights i had calling "NO BRACING" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_fighting
Hey that's cheating! I wonder how a corndog stick would do vs a chop stick? I remember a guy telling me about a mod he did on a pencil. He some how got the pencil's halves a part and removed the lead. He then put a thin piece of metal in the cavity left by the lead. Some kind of wire or something. The last thing of course was to glue the pieces back together. I never saw the thing in action but it was an interesting idea. Some guys take pencil fighting to a whole new level.
The only mod i did a couple of times before i got good enough to break a pencil in one lick was slowly shave out the lead inside and sometimes the lead just fell out and we would fill the inside with elmers glue and waited for it to get hard and it was good to go.
We used to have crazy rules in 4 square, like we would make up moves to get you out, like using Black Magic, where you would juggle the ball in your hand and walk about the big square until you could hit their square. Insane game, but defintely fun.
12 years later... I think I still have a lunch box filled with about 50 unsharpened pencils ready for a fight sitting in my closet at home... Blame it on the $.25 pencil machine they installed in my school... Edit: And a Lego case filled with hundreds of Pogs...
Man, I used to obliterate the competition in 4-square. I had "the swirl" shot. It was the spin that would cause the ball to shoot away from the hapless victim. Aimed at a distant corner, it was impossible to defend or return. Many a kid on the playground refused to play unless there was a "no swirl" clause/rule in the game... *chuckle*
Some kid came into a stall with a buddy of mine when he was in first grade. My buddy turned around and peed on the kid's leg. To this day, I still think that's one of my funniest early childhood stories. Anyways, pencil break was awesome! Four-square as well. It's doubtful that anyone has ever played these games, but anyone from Magnolia Elementary school will remembered a modified dodgeball game that we played (that I was awesome at), as well as a game called "Ghostbusters." I haven't read this thread and don't know if it's been discussed or not yet, but I always loved "Parachute Day" in PE in elementary. Also, when the warhead fad hit, people were buying packages of warheads and bringing them to school and selling individual warheads for a quarter a piece! Some kids made five bucks a day off that, which was ungodly. I also remember the YoYo fad, which I never really got into....
You mean the cinnamon jawbreakers that you could get a Sam's for 5 bucks for 500 of them? Were these the same kids buying 10 cent pencils for a quarter, also? I think elementary schools need to start teaching basic economics. When I was in 7th grade, the big craze, believe it or not, was cinnamon toothpics. Kids would get these little jars of cinnamon oil, soak the toothpics in them and sell them for a dime each. I think they made some pretty good money, too...
I think what everyone is calling WALL BALL is what I knew as "Chicken" in Fifth Ward. If I threw the ball and it bounced off the wall, you must catch it. If you dropped it, you have to run to the wall and touch the wall, but we have a chance to throw it at you and hit you as hard as possible but if we missed, we had to run as well. That could take a long time for one turn. If the guy who threw in the second time missed you, he'd have to stay on the wall "spread eagle" (like someone said) and wait until everyone took a turn. ----------------- MEXICO's Games: "Los Encantados" was MEXICO's version of "Freeze Tag". We played it in school. We ran around, and the tagger would say "Encantado" to someone, and friends would come up and "disenchant" the "enchanted" one, and the game would go on and on. We also played "dieciocho", which is the same as US's Tag, except the first person would count up to eighteen to let everyone else run. The first person tagged would be the next tagger, so on. "Las escondidas" is hide-and-go-seek, except if someone gets to the base where a can exists, he'd scream out "1,2,3 por todos mis amigos y por mi" while banging the can, and the seeker lost, but only with seeing someone, the seeker could call his name and position out, and that hidee couldn't come bang the can anymore. "El Changay" (shangai?) is two sticks, where one lays across the ground and you do several tricks to send the stick on the ground away with the longer stick, and the other team or kid has to retrieve it or catch it, and that's considered an out, like in baseball. You score "runs" by counting with the longest stick back from where the shorter stick fell to the hole in the ground. You could play by laying two bricks, or diggind a hole in the ground. I am sure david_rocket can explain more. "El burro bala" is another one whose rules I forget, since I haven't played in 20 years, maybe. It involves holding on to the light pole with your hands while bending over, and your teammates form a bent-over chain behind you. The other team gets to jump on all your teammates and if your team collapses, your team loses. Those of you in other countries, what are some games you played? I didn't want to start another thread on this, but you get the idea... I have some more I am thinking about...
Hah! I remember being the new kid at school in First Grade in Midland Texas and the first time Parachute Day came around I was really confused and naive, I let the other kids convince me we'd be jumping off the roof and using this parachute to gracefully land.
Open chest was extremely popular. Pencil break as well, there would be many different styles of execution and we'dactually huddle around and cheer on the victors. "Ding Dong Ditch" or "nXXXXr Knocking" as one parent claimed we were doing was very fun to play with the fat kid who always got caught. Also, if you got a fade or very short hair cut you would get slapped HARD on the back of the head by random unknown people LOL. did anyone else find throwing rocks at cars to be the ultimate rush? In middle school KOOSH was the ultimate game during lunch.
Oh, this is bringing back some memories! The colorful Pentech pencils, I remember were the top notch pencils you could get. But no one mentioned tweeties!? Everyone had they're own little secret technique to folding a tweety. For those who haven't had the priviladge...The basic tweety is a piece of notebook paper torn vertically in strips ~1" wide. These would be tightly folded short-ways, creased and hummed by a rubber band at your enemy. Alterations included shortening the length of the strip, rolling instead of folding, paperclips as innards or pointing out their end by the one or two true sadists, etc. But with well crafted paper-only tweeties and a kick ass rubber band you could leave some serious whelps on people. We shot these randomly or stockpiled for a neighborhood war. You're dead when you cry or run home. And lots of reusable ammo left on the field if you need it. We use to play something called cops and robbers. I don't think I remember all the rules. Always a night game. Robbers get a head start and get to hide anywhere on the street or something. Cops wield rolled up newspaper (so when a found out robber starts running you and the ohter cops can beat him into submission once hes caught). The object is for the cops to round up all robbers and bring them to whoever's garage was the jail. I think there was a way to break out, but I can't remember. These were the two roughest games we played I think. I could go on and on with this stuff. Like the time in 2nd grade this kid Freddy tried the light the class dork on fire. Came to school supplied with matches and gasoline in a used soup can. Got as far as drenching the kid with gas in the bathroom, but couldn't get him lit before he ran away. I think he got detention for that.
You are a Donut. That kid was a pyro! I remember paper footballs... played for hours on end. Making paper "ninja stars" - I even had a friend put the metal compasses inside one once with the points sticking out... we stuck plenty regular "stars" in the ceiling tiles. wall ball with a raquet or tennis ball.... cup ball -with a crushed coke cup at the little league field... baseball with hands only. Thumps, slaps, hits... Stupid stuff, some of it.
Growing up on a street and to a lesser extent neighborhood full of kids my age, we of course played most of these games and the nostalgia is flowing. Another game we played that I haven't seen mentioned was called Tron. This involved two sepereate teams on each side of the street using the middle line of the street as the divider for each team, opposing teams could not cross the middle line. We used any form of projectile possible, frisbees, footballs, nerfs, tennisballs, the rubber dodgeballs. The object was to hit your opponent with one of these objects thus putting them out of the game. If they caught your throw you yourself were out. Thinking back, maybe you were alowed to cross the middle line to steal the balls from the other team if they were not protecting them. I don't remeber all of the rules but it was alot of fun.
