Games you've invented

[Lsura]

Well, my brothers and I used to hunt for “men from mars” while riding around in the car. Er, men from mars were fire hydrants, because an uncle told us they were. So, one brother got to look out one side, the other brother got the other side(they were both older than me after all) and I always got to look in the middle of the road. I didn’t figure out for years why I never seemed to find any.

Then, there was the game that we played with the next door neighbor. Er, I’ll apologize for the name now, and state that I had nothing to do with the invention of the game. it was called “smear the queer with the ball”.(ok, this was late 70s/early 80s) Basically, it involved running like a bat out of hell after whoever had the ball, then attempting to beat them up. They could, however, throw the ball to you at any time, and you had to catch it. Then, they tried to smear you. It could go on for hours, or at least until dark.

Yes, I was the only girl in the neighborhood, and I was a little hellion because of it.

[silent_rob]

Okay, there’s a couple of games my friends and I play regularly, one I co-invented and the other was taught to me.

Movie Porno-names: go back and forth between a two people or around a group coming up with porno names for legitimate films. Ex: Annie’s might be Fannie with it’s big song It’s a Hard Cock Life. Maybe Cock-work Orange, Cocks-anne, Evil Head, or Life is Booty-ful. Sorry, I got on a roll. I don’t know if this is completely original, but my friends and didn’t get it from anywhere. My friend has made lists from this game.

The other game is the Midget Game, where you take the name of a movie & replace one of the words with the word “midget”. This was taught to me by one of the organizers of the Canadian National Improv Games. So, instead of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, it would be Bram Stoker’s Midget. Another one might be For the Love of the Midget. Played the same way as the other one, going back and forth.

[Ell]

You guys probably played this but…

In Primary & High School we played this game a lot.

You’d take a coin and put it on the edge of a lengthwise table. You would have three hits to get it to the other edge of the table. If you didn’t make it or went over the edge the other guy got his go.

If you got it right on the edge you would flick it up with one hand then catch it with the same hand. If you caught it, it would be a try (or touchdown for Americans). You then got to kick a conversion (field goal).

You would spin the coin and catch it between both thumbs. Then pivoting against the table with your index fingers you would try tossing it through the “goals” the other guy made with his fingers.

4 points for a try
2 points for a conversion

The game would continue till we got kicked out of class.

Ahh, the simple innocence of childhood

PS Lsura. We had a game like that called “Kill the dill with the pill”

[drewbert]

I wanted to call it Box-Kicking…

but the others didn’t like that name… instead, like c_goat’s game, this was simply called it The Game. With capital letters.

Anyway, the game depended on the arrangement of my dorm room my junior year. It was all my roomie’s idea. In my experience, most dorm rooms either:

a) have a loft
b) have one bed on the left, another on the right
8) have beds bunked, either on the right or on the left.

Few dorms have the beds bunked and arranged parallel to the hallway, just a few feet away from the door. So when you open the door, all you’d see is bed. To enter the rest of the room, you had to turn left and circle around the foot of the bed. Sounds like a pain, but it really worked well, because it left us plenty of living space between the bed and the back wall.

The Game started with a small, flimsy white cardboard box a few inches to a side. I think it originally held an AC adapter for some electronic thingy. The object was to stand in the doorway (or into the hall if you liked,) and drop-kick the box over the bunk bed into the room. Your opponent, standing on the other side of the bed, would attempt to deflect the box in mid-flight with his hands. Points were scored according to what the little box hit. I forget most of the scoring system, but the best scoring play involved making my stereo’s CD player skip. (It wasn’t very hard, it’s pretty sensitive.)

Very soon, of course, the little box started started to tear, and so had to be patched with masking tape. Over time, there was more masking tape than box - and the boxlike shape evolved into something much more amorphous.

I wasn’t very good at this game, and most of my blocking plays were cruelly mocked as if I were a Frankenstein monster swatting at gnats.

[hightechburrito]

When I wrestled in High School, I played Butt’s Up after practice a few times. It was quite fun on the mats, it made for some interesting dives.

My friends and I made some fun games in my Senior year Drafting Class:

Artillery: Just like the old computer game, but we stacked up Army men on the drafting tables and lobbed a paper ball at them.

Hackey Sack Hockey: One goalie between two stools, one defender and two attackers. The object was to keep the sack in the air while working it to the goal. If it hit the ground, you went back to the start.

Golf: We used a T-square as a club, and tried to get a paper ball onto a piece of binder paper. One stroke was taken away if you got the ball into a circle on the paper. Whoever won the last hole got to make up the new one. This got pretty complex

All the games started after the teacher took the games off of the computers. When he said that he never wanted to see us playing Artillery again, we started the Hockey. After that came the Golf . . .

The best part is that I got an A in the class.