Games from my Childhood

[Highlander]

For reasons I won't go into, I was reminded of this game for too many years ago

[KKOB]

Pick up sticks. Go on then, enlighten us H.

[Highlander]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_sticks

A work colleague tells me he plays this with his kids now  

[KKOB]

Name 'n Shame. He's gotta be found and stopped before he goes over the top and decides to take them to the park to play !

[Jacqui Harvey]

I remember me and my friends used to save lolly sticks and use them for this game.
I used to love playing marbles or Ollies as we called it in Liverpool.  Always had a really good Ollie that used to be able to beat the others my friends had.   Never see kids with marble now. 

[KKOB]

I lost my marbles a while ago too. 

[Jacqui Harvey]

Yes, I did realise that...keep on taking the tablets.

[echogirl1]

In my youth (many ears ago) we used to play "jacks" which involved bouncing a ball in the air whilst retrieving small metal spheres, one at a time, then two, then three, and so on.  Many winter hours spent sitting on the lino playing this.  Anyone else do this?

[KKOB]

Yes, we called it Jacks but some kids called it Bones or Knucklebones.

[echogirl1]

Seeing that picture brought back many memories, we had a league and every week we worked out who was top of the league.  I only made it once but I was bursting with pride!! (there were only 4 of us playing!!)