What games did you play with your siblings growing up?

2015-09-08T21:18:36-04:00

I grew up with five brothers. Long before I ever heard the term water boarding I was intimately familiar with something my brothers called submarining. This was just one of the torture games (they) we played... I'm sure if I listed the game names or descriptions of them here that many would be familiar with them. The games were designed to inflict as much pain on the other person as possible until that person asked for "mercy" These games were ones that inflicted pain without leaving a mark or leaving as small of a mark as possible. So for those of you with siblings, cousins, or close friends, I'd like to hear from you. What games did you play (describe if necessary). Thanks

http://www.logan.cc/blog/2013/07/painful-games-children-play/

Painful Games Children Play

Do you remember the first time you were waiting to cross a street or riding in a car and some kid hauled off and punched you, yelling "Slug Bug!"? And somehow t

Response by SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL made Sep 8 at 2015 9:21 PM

2015-09-08T21:21:00-04:00

CPT Private RallyPoint Member I played hide-n-seek, stick-ball, basketball and yes Hang-man. Those were the days. Thanks for posting.

Response by Sgt David G Duchesneau made Sep 8 at 2015 9:21 PM

2015-09-08T21:21:24-04:00

Capture the flag and Cow Tipping! Two big ones!

Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Sep 8 at 2015 9:51 PM

2015-09-08T21:51:26-04:00

I never did really play games with my siblings. My sister is 15 years older and practically raised me and my brother is 6 years younger

Response by SFC Joseph Weber made Sep 8 at 2015 9:53 PM

2015-09-08T21:53:25-04:00

I had five older sisters. They enjoyed a game called 'Steal Joe's Food'. They all got pretty good at it.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 8 at 2015 9:56 PM

2015-09-08T21:56:28-04:00

My mom believed in nonresistance which is something like pacifism. As a result we were not allowed to play any games with guns. No cowboys and Indians, etc. So we had a game of cops and robbers, but much more like real life. And the "robber" generally got very roughed up in the arrest! We played lots of tag. Some rougher versions, some not so. In "Pine tree tag," "it" had a pine bough that he would tag with. We would scavenge bicycle parts and build bikes out what pieces we could find, and then hold bicycle demo derbies. My brother has a scar on his cheek from jousting on bicycles. We decided it should be safe because we used mullein stalks instead of sticks. We would also stand battle lines and throw mullein stalks at each other as spears. Mom said no guns, she forgot to mention primitive weapons! That's besides the time spent wrestling and boxing.

That's the rough games. We also spent a lot of time hacking trees with hatchets, riding bicycles, building and flying kites, and "making things." We never finished the dugout canoe. Or our cabin in the woods. Or the half underground greenhouse we read about in mother earth news, and started digging behind the house.

Response by PFC Robert Falk made Sep 8 at 2015 10:15 PM

2015-09-08T22:15:32-04:00

never played any games with them had a 1/2 sister 6 yrs older and a 1/2 brother 8 yrs older.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 8 at 2015 10:42 PM

2015-09-08T22:42:33-04:00

I was the youngest of three. The game played most of the time was Punching Bag. I was the punching bag. I was really good at that game.

Response by SSG Leo Bell made Sep 8 at 2015 10:56 PM

2015-09-08T22:56:43-04:00

Smear the queer (which is a football game with three or more people. Dodge Ball, hid and seek, basketball, football, marbles, spades, black jack, I declare war, go fish, pencil fighting, (rock ,paper, scissor ) kick ball. Hungry hungry hippo, operation, clue, monopoly,and allot more. We stayed busy and stayed outside.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 8 at 2015 11:47 PM

2015-09-08T23:47:24-04:00

Oh but David we did rhino tipping///\\\

Response by SA Harold Hansmann made Sep 9 at 2015 12:23 AM

2015-09-09T00:23:31-04:00

BB gun fights, Apple fights, snowmobiling, snow shoeing, sledding, fishing, hunting, watching the Bears at the dump.

Response by COL Mikel J. Burroughs made Sep 9 at 2015 10:42 AM

2015-09-09T10:42:39-04:00

CPT Private RallyPoint Member There is (5) years between me and my brother. I use to terrorize him when were younger. I don't ever remember playing any board games back in those days until I had children of my own. I do remember making my brother do everything for me when I was 13-year-old and he was 8. When he refused one day I hung him up by his underwear on a hook in the garage. My mother had to come from work and of course that was the end of my reign at the home front and we got shipped off the YMCA. That is where I got my first leadership position at age 13 as a Junior Leader ($1.09 an hour part-time) during the summer. It so the journey began for me in leadership, just because I hung my brother on a hook in the garage!

Response by SSgt Terry P. made Sep 9 at 2015 11:42 AM

2015-09-09T11:42:07-04:00

My older brother played a game of his called--"Terry go get this and that"--I played "fetch or get pounded".