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[Cakers3]

"If it isn't a Duncan, it isn't a yo-yo."

I remember trying the different tricks like Rock the Cradle with my  yo-yo 🪀 

Actually whacked myself in the head one time.🤣

[shoekitty]

pick-up Stix

Clue

mr Potato Head

chinese checkers

hula hoop

dodgeball

tetherball

erector sets

candyland

chutes and ladders

Marbles. were the big thing, played and traded marbles. 
silly putty

[Cakers3]

Silly Putty was used on Apollo 8 to secure a toolbox.

I think most know by now Silly Putty was an accidental result from a WW2 trial for trying to make a substitute for rubber.

I remember using it to peel up comic pictures in newspapers.

[Happy2BHere]

I remember almost everything mentioned here! After playing with jacks (I remember something about finishing one game, then the next you had to double bounce the ball?) we would then play with my Barrel of Monkeys:

There were always trolls around

Operation!

Mousetrap!

But my very favorite game was my magnetic dollhouse. You had wands with magnets on the end and there were cars, people, all kinds of things with magnets under them, and you put your wand under the table and pulled them through the dollhouse. Somehow we played that for hours at a time - I think imaginations were bigger back then LOL:

Oh, and instead of playing "Post Office" with boys I remember once there a was similar thing at a party I was at called "Seven Minutes in Heaven", where a girl at a party would go into another room (like the kitchen) with a boy.

My experience with that was standing around uncomfortably not speaking or daring to look at each other for 6 mins 59 seconds of the 7 minutes, then a quick peck on the cheek and flying out and everyone going "ooooo" and winking at you. I think the boys bragged about everything that didn't really happen, while the girls felt really grown up LOL.

[chrystaltree]

Yup, I remember most of them.  I think so we were before my time.  And some are still popular.  My girls and now my grandchildren have Candyland,  Slinkies,  Etch a Sketch.  Hubby plays Go Fish with the kids all the time.  Jumping rope and hop scotch never go out of fashion with kids.  I think there's a misconception amongst people who don't have kids in their lives that all they do is play video games and their cell phones are glued to their hands.  Lol.  True electronics are a big part of their entertainment but they also ride bikes, skate, jump rope, play board games, draw, color.  They do the things kids have always done....even if their Slinkies are plastic and only last a couple of weeks.  

[Jordan2]

Anyone remember Mystery Date? "Mystery Date, are you ready for your Mystery Date, don't be late, open the door to your Mystery Date! My sister and I cheated, we wanted the guy in the tux and not the beach bum, there was a way of opening the door to bypass the beach bum. I also liked Operation. 

[jubilant]

@SandySparkles  Thanks so much for the memories!  So many of these we played or did in my childhood. So many, in fact, I could never pick a favorite.  Loved them all!

[candys mine]

@shoekitty  MARBLES!  Yeah!  I'm STILL finding marbles in the back yard when I dig up the garden.

A game that I don't think is played anymore is RELIEVIO (Neighborhood hide and seek) You had the whole block to hide in No backyard was off limits and people didn't mind the neighbor kids playing.

Remember the call back " OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE!"?  ( later I found out we kids mangled "All in Free" meaning you could break cover and come on in with no penalty.)

Hot wheels

Army Guys

Cap guns

Risk   We'd put a sheet over the table to prevent peeking when we took a break. Those "campaigns" could go on all weekend.

The city wide Kickball tournament  from the City Summer Playground activities.  Gimp was a big thing back then.  You'd walk by the chain link schoolyard fence and see a row of multicoloured braided plastic lanyards in progress.

[Sweet Kitties]

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@PhilaLady1 wrote:

@Sweet Kitties 

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@Sweet Kitties wrote:

Ladies, do you remember Mystery Date? I actually thought the dud looked happy & would be a fun date. We could ride bikes & play outside & he wouldn't be a sissy about getting a little dirty. 

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I can still hear the song from the commercial. 😃 

🎶 Open the door to your Mystery Date 🎶 

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"Mystery date. Are you ready for your mystery date. Open the door to your mystery date. Don't be late. Mystery date." That song is etched on my mind.

[Sweet Kitties]

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@Puggywuggy wrote:
I remember and participated in most of those many years ago and most were so enjoyable with the exception of dodgeball...which I detested!

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Dodgeball was awful. My gym teacher would divide the children into boys against girls teams. Back when I was in grade school we girls had to wear dresses. The boys would whip the ball at our legs. Boy that stung! Looking back, that teacher was a sadist.