The Games you played/enjoyed as a child

ahem ahem .... u might wanna exclude urs truly from that list of urs !

you got your 4th player here

 

forgot me?

 

who r u, again ?

 

isn't he the guy??

 

oh yea..... thanks for reminding me bro

 

Dont worry monopoly can take upto 6 players. however there can be only one winner. me!

 

^^ where is the challenge accepted meme when u need it ?

 

Haha... Its in awe of me!

 

i still play cricket whenever i can

 

Ludo - Probably the first game I was introduced to. By my mother. Started playing it as soon as I learnt number and addition. The two of us invented some of our own rules. And yes, the two of us play pretty fast, as JD666 mentioned..
Snakes and Ladders - not so much, but played it usually when I was alone. I would single-handedly play on behalf of say, 3 or 4 players. And made sure only I won
Fire and Ice - which we called "vish - amrit" considering our limited knowledge of English at that age.
What-color-you-want ( the tippy tippy tap game ) (Man, what names we had.. )
Chess
Carom
Hopscotch - Believe it or not but my siblings and I had actually painted the whole thing up on our terrace so then we dint need to re-draw it every time we played.. We dint even have to worry about rain. We would actually keep the same game going over days..
Playing cards - Played a hell lot of it. Saturday nights were the 'cards night'. Mind you, no money involved, only a whole lot of fun. Especially with my mother trying to cheat her way into winning and my father catching her every single time
Human chain ( or chain chain )
Shooting - with rubber bands and 'bullets' of paper.. Played it with neighbors, across the terraces..
Corner corner
Tag
Hide and seek - I was the in-house champion
High and low..
.. And a lot of games we invented..

In school, badminton, hand ball, basket ball (was really bad at it )..

The virtual ones - contra, tennis, mario
Cricket - only till I was in 7th standard

Monopoly was actually introduced to me very recently by JD666 . What I used to play as a kid was an Indianised local version of it called - Business.

Once I had my hands on a computer, I was addicted to minesweeper. May be I still am
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Cycling was only for mondays.. Because the markets were closed on mondays and that was when 'girls' could be allowed to cycle around..

 

I loved playing the doctor when I was in nursery/kindergarten however, the fun did not last for long as I was soon put in a catholic, boys only school.

When I went to college (which till my penultimate year was a boys only college ), I met my girl friend (now wife) during my final year, I redeveloped a liking for playing the doctor and thats when the grades went down. This continued while I was pursuing my Masters (I coaxed her to do the same course as me and lugged her with me to Delhi ).

Life started playing dirty and thats when I learnt playing games like iski-topi-uske-sar.

Other than these, the boring games I have played as a young boy were football, basketball, cricket, squash and was trained in hand-to-hand combat while growing up in a boys only school.

 

oh oh oh... I just remembered a game we used to play in school!

Bank River Water Sea!

This was played on 4 steps and you had to jump from one side to the other!
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You have my full sympathy... We started playing throw ball with the girls in school.. And pretty soon all the guys from the cricket and football games joined in!

 

i will again repeat my words...

u remind me of some one very remarkable........

 

kya hain hum..!!

I realised I have actually still left out so many more games..
For example, in those free periods in the class, there were games like cross n not's, "16 parchi dhapp" (I know its a weird name), "raja mantri chor sipahi", "name, place, animal thing" which used to be "naam, vastu, sthan, film" when I was useless with my English, join the dots..
Then there were our lunch period games like gallery (dont think any of you guys will know about it ), kho kho.. A hell lot of running around - which we fondly called "pakdam pakdai"

 

I played bed kabbadi for a while, but she complained that i was cheating.