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Cats cradle was good, also there was a faze in junior school where people would tie bits of elastic together and 2 people would stand in the elastic and someone would jump in and out of the middle. There were different types of jumping in and out oh! one was 'jingle jangle centre sprangle jingle jangle out'


Actually, reading that rhyme back it looks proper dodgy

We played that too.  But our rhyme was England Ireland Scotland Wales, inside outside monkey's tails..and for the end bit we had to jump on the elastics.

There was another cross-legged jumping game that we did that looking back on it involved a very racist kind of rhyme about a china man
Temps
We played jacks and the game up the wall with tennis balls....

My favourites though were 40/40 and British Bulldog

omg 40/40!  There was a big gang of us who used to play that in the summer evenings.  That and Relavio (sp) where if some one got back to Den before you, they could free the ones you'd already caught
Temps
Oh! also played  small rubber balls(hand sized),that you whacked against a large wall and set to"Rhymes".You threw them under,over and behind your back,legs etc......ohh man...Kids now  don't have a clue.
Now I will say this ,I'm 54 and only about one or two kids were classed as "Fat" when I was in primary school,we all ran about,climbed trees and faught the boys!
kattymieoww
We also played Farmer Farmer may we cross your Golden River.We would stand on the Pavement ,the Farmer would stand in the middle of the road.
Whoever was the Farmer said "Not unless you have Blue on"
(he/she could pick any colour)
If you had the colour you walk to the other side of the Pavement,if not, you had to get acrooss to the other side without the Farmer catching you .
         
Another Pavement game was kerbie.
FM
Temps - I loved elastics - I always liked buying a bag of the multicoloured ones and actually enjoyed looping them all together. We used that rhyme but recited it as Scotland England Ireland Wales - regional


Gypsie - I loved playing balls - I also like to think I was pretty good, especially with one hand. (that sentence sounds really bad 


Other games I remember are Red Rover, What's the Time Mr Wolf, and British Bulldog.
FM
Knock Down Ginger

along with most of the above and the one where you had a ball on a length of washing line with a loop on the end and hop over it. Also a ball in a stocking or pair of tights - stand up against the wall and sort of swing it from side to side.

Jacks and Dabs - cigarette cards leant against the wall and you had to flick them down 'Flick ems' - and of course marbles.
Soozy Woo
Conkers, marbles, football, more football, a bit more football. When it was raining my mates came round and we played a board game called Wembley where you had to get a team to win the FA Cup and matches were decided on the roll of a dice. I've never seen such arguments in my life until I later played Risk as an adult. Board games are evil, you heard it here first.
Prometheus
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Prom! I saw fights between adults over a game called Diplomacy.

I can so believe it. My best mate didn't talk to me for a month because I took his last few territories when he had somehow imagined we 'agreed' to be allies lol. Six people in the flat playing the game. He didn't say a word just gave me that 'I can't believe you did that' look and walked out 
Prometheus
Temps - I loved elastics - I always liked buying a bag of the multicoloured ones and actually enjoyed looping them all together. We used that rhyme but recited it as Scotland England Ireland Wales - regional

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oh yes!  The multicoloured elastic bands you couldn't just use the brown ones.  They bloomin hurt when they snapped though

NEVER play kerbs with a basket ball, I learned the hard way when it bounced back and smacked me in the face
Temps

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