Stupid games in highschool....

I never was allowed to do this (I think my parents would have wondered why I would have been asking for new pencils every few days), but this was certainly common at my high school. People would bite the erasers off and create and axe-like “head” with the metal eraser holder. I also heard that soaking pencils in salt water was supposed to make them more resilient, so you could bend them back further and increase their “whip action”. Or some such.

I am surprised none of you have mentioned the “folded into a triangle paper football game” where two people would flick said football back and forth across a table or desk.

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Hey we used to play this game. We also played basketball and scoccer with coins. I think that was in middle school though. We also would fight with our class rings, you know spin them around and let them hit each other. We used to play dumb games in band, but it’s been so damn long I don’t even remember what it was we played. Water polo instead of swimming pratice was GREAT though. even if some of the women used nothing but claws.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned the Slap Game. One person holds their hands out palms up, the other person puts theirs on top palm down. The person on bottom tries to flip his hands over and slap the other’s hands. If he missed it was the other one’s turn.

Another game was spinning a coin on its edge to see who could do it the longest.

<hijack> Why are children so psychotic and sadistic?
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ERF.

Its a card game, half luck, half speed. The goal is to get all of the cards, if doubles come up and your hand is on top of the pile first, you get the cards.

Normal play requires removal of all rings and no pouncing with nails down. Normal play is gentle, fun, happy, etc, etc.

This was the game for the theatre crew to play during a show, when you had to be quiet backstage. Show play has three strategies. a)if you think you are going to be the fastest, keep your hand flat, zip in over the cards and cling to them with all you can muster. b) if you are pretty sure someone’s hand is going to be under yours, turn your rings stone down and do your best to break bones/draw blood. If they squeak they forfit cards. c) allways try to steal cards if you are near the bottom of the pile.

So much fun. Not pure pain, but enough to make it interesting.

My friends and I used to bum a lot of money off each other for lunch our senior year of high school. No one ever really kept track of who owed whom, mostly because it all evened out. Two of my friends, however, earned reputations for being extreme grubs.

We decided one day that all of the grubbing had gone too far. We were still perfectly willing to lend out the occasional buck or three, but we wanted something in return. Thus Public Humiliation for Food was born.

For three dollars, Marc fenced with a cafeteria garbage can with a plastic fork and lost.

For two dollars, I asked the school nurse for tampons. And tried to use them.

For one dollar, Andrew would crush an apple on the table with his head, spraying juice and pulp everywhere. Oddly enough, he would also do this for free if you asked nicely enough.

For two dollars, Johnny G asked the assistant principal if he could buy the cafeteria art. You know, the usual kitcshy food paintings and such.

Best of all, Dan always carried around a video camera. So when I run for Senate, don’t be surprised to see tapes of me asking the nurse for a tampon in the Republicans for Clean Air’s thirty second spot.

MR

One of my favorite things: have a friend push you hard from behind so you slam into a freshman, then act as if it’s the freshman’s fault. I’ve never had one walk away without telling me “I’m sorry”.

Step on an underclassman’s heel while walking down the hall. If no reaction, repeat. When he finally turns around, give him a dirty look and ask what the hell his problem is. It’s GREAT getting reactions like that.

Casually walk past freshmen in the morning with a group of friends, and just arbitrarily close their lockers without saying anything or even LOOKING at them. Fun stuff, I tell ya.

I love pissing my friends off by going over to a cute girl, saying “He thinks you’re cute” and then indicating one of my friends. Makes me crack up soooooo much.

At the end of the day when freshmen are SPRINTING to their buses, hold them up. Verbally, physically, it doesn’t matter. It’s a riot to see the sweat actually POP from their forehead. “Am I going to miss my bus?? What’s this senior doing (holding/talking to) me? Aaaaagh!”
Ahh, high school. I hope it never ends. sigh

Yep. Forgot this one. Also forgot the farting noise people made with their armpit, which wasn’t a game but might as well be. I could never learn to do that, which was just as well (not that I spent a lot of time trying).

(I don’t know what one has to do with the other, but the first reminded me of the second.)

Yep. Did this, too. Was actually more of a fan of “Bullshit”, the card game. I specifically remember playing it during our lunch hour, and our gym teacher, who was notorious for disliking profanity (You swore, you ran laps. LOTS of laps), came up to us, and in a really friendly way, asked us what we were doing (just kind of conversationally, he could pretty much tell we weren’t gambling).

My friend, who was equally notorious for blurting out whatever was on his mind, said (TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS TO WHO WAS ASKING THE QUESTION), “Oh, we’re playing bullshit.” :eek:

Silence. Finally, someone pipes in, “Actually, the game is called ‘I doubt it’.”

I don’t remember what the gym teacher said, but none of us had to run laps. :stuck_out_tongue:

A favorite during my junior year in HS was High Point. You take a soda can, set it on its side and give it a sort of karate chop right in the middle. Then you turn the can so the highest point is facing upward, and the next person gives it a chop. Repeat until the can is unusable. I don’t recall exactly how a winner would be determined. It, of course, had something to do with blood, but I’m not sure if the first person to bleed was the winner or the loser. After about 5 or 6 chops the game got really intersting, because the can had tears and folds and sharp edges that could really hurt. Typical high school pain game for guys.

We had yet another version of Bloody Knuckles. A person would stand on one side of a pool table and roll the balls as hard they could trying to hit the other persons hands when either they were picking up the balls or rolling them back at you.

Man it is hard to believe any of us still got knuckles after all those sadistic games huh?

Dolores Claiborne, we play that a lot, it’s called Hot Hands. I think that’s where I learned to slap hard and fast, many guys wish that I had never encountered that game. (If you decide to racially stereotype me without a DAMN good reason I’m not a very happy kitty)
Another game to ruin your knuckles, I didn’t play but it looks painful. You know that you can get a quarter to spin, right? Well one guy sets the quarter to spinning on the table and the other guy punches it hoping that when you hit it it’ll end up flat on the flat because if it doesn’t you’re in serious pain.You take turns until someone gives up, last man not crying is the victor.

Kitty

The middle school i went to was old…and i mean OLD. The wall in the main hallway had “1935” painted on it really big and i think that was the last year the school was painted/remodeled. Well anyway, the toilets in the school didnt look like public toilets, they just looked like regular house toilets so we used to take the lids off of them and point that hose in there outwards and put the lid back on. Next person that flushed the toilet got an unexpected midday shower. We did all the other usual stuff too but this is the only thing that really stuck out in my head that hadn’t already been mentioned (pencil fighting and bloody knuckles were BIG parts of my preteen life). That school had asbestos and was torn down shortly after this, i had alot of good memories there ;(

YES! The Penis Game. I’m in college and we still play that game. We’ll go to Perkin’s or the Waffle House at like 2 am and play that game. Amazingly there are lots of people in those places at that time of night and we’re usually so tired or so hyped up on caffeine that the game is actually good entertainment.

Denny’s is better. Denny’s is better for everything. I have had some extremely fun times at Denny’s. Although IHOP is fun too, because it is the House of PANCAKES!!!

hypergirl, you definitely have that right, Denny’s is the greatest place to be in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow I get the feeling that they’re used to freaks like me and my friends.

Kitty

yeah, denny’s is a wonderful place. after the final night of teh school musical, the cast and crew all go to denny’s for a wrap party and stay there as late as we’re able to. it’s great.

YUP…we have played the ‘Penis Game’, ‘Bloody Knuckles’, ‘Chubby Bunny’, and well we have picnics on homecomimg week, and everyone starts a food fight…I threw pizza at the upperclassmen once…and I lost my underwear plus a little pizza down my pants!

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Vikings Rule!

5 wins, 0 Losses.

Purple? Are you from Virginia?

Ooopsies, you’re from Minnesota. My mistake…

Basically for road trips, but could be modified for almost any situation. The game is. . . ready? . . .you take any sign you see, and add the phrase “in Grandma’s Pants” to the end. Hilarity ensues.

No Outlet in Grandma’s pants

Semi Truck Parking in Grandma’s pants

Authorized Vehicles only in Grandma’s pants

etc.