Games you have made up

someone's invented the next nike advert.

I think the idea of the game was that you have given the warning and therefore the jab isn't really unexpected. you score points when you successfully jab your opponent or when you have successfully blocked an unexpected jab.

Does Calvinball count up as a made-up game? We played a rollicking game of Calvinball in Clissold Park last summer. You just have to take all of the sport equipment you can find, and use ALL OF IT. Preferably all at once.

put a packet of lucky strike at a moderate distance on a table, roll up a bit of paper (preferably the silver wrapper bits inside the packet) into a small ball, place it on your thumb and the idea is to flick the ball in the air with your thumb, and then "volley" the ball with your index finger and hit the "target" on the front of the packet.

it's tremendously difficult - but possible! (i've hit it... once)

e.g. When they were building a house next to the park, one of the builders was playing Get in the Ring from one of GNR's use your illusion cds. As a result of this, if you kicked the ball accidentally in to the garden of this house (quite easy to do) you had to stand in the driveway, devil sign with your hand and mosh for a wee while. If you did not do this then you lost one of your lives. This continued after people had occupied the house. Every single object on and surrounding the park was included in the game in some way or other.

The nicest thing about it was that both myself and my brother were fairly poor at football, and his mate was pretty good. His mate always lost. And he fell over a lot.

the dangers of blindman's bluff. the parlor games link is fantastic. i'm ready to build sugared fruit tower centerpiece and force my guests to participate in a tableaux vivant.

when I was in brno, in the czech republic, we would often go, my friends and I, to the zelena kotchka (green cat) club. they always had cardboard beermats for bernard (a czech beer) and, so, the idea for "the bernard game" came about. we made a deck of beermats by writing a surname (usually) below the 'bernard', on the mat. sumner, matthews, butler, bresslaw, tschumi, hill, winters, taupin and so on. a whole stack. the game was never actually played, because we never got around to making it/its rules up, but I still have the deck.

"Where am I now?" - a highly irresponsible game involving a blindfold, spinning round very fast and then running full-pelt until you hit something. Then you take the blindfold off and ask yourself "where am I now?".

"Donkey Football" - school field iss divided into roughly two groups of 30 people each - people wearing Kickers shoes played on one team, peole with DMs played on the other. Although the Kickers team were great at normal football, DM-ers would usually win because they invariably had the advantage of steel toe-caps. Also there weren't any rules to Donkey Football, you just had to get the ball in the goal somehow.

you had to mosh on your own? i think you guys had a different version of moshing too!!

i understand. i went to a surrealist cocktail party once upon a time, and it was terrible. everyone wound up insulting each other horribly in a drinking game.

everybody plays push football on school tables with a 10p coin though, right?

its good because there's lots of suspense as everyone has to sit through the songs before the next numbers are pulled out.

x-post obv.

We did have a CD shuffle game that was similar to bingo but which involved much more drinking and randomness. I can't really remember how it all worked.

When she is reticent, I fill in her lines for her.

This game had the unforeseen side-effect of confusing the entire village, as they watched a succession of small boys race in and out of the phone box, and then up the graveyard.

SALTCOATS?!!!

you know where I come from, c, it should be no surprise.

I'd figure out what each number should correspond to, either by player or just in general (depending on how lazy I was, mostly just used on standard set), basing it as well as my nine-year old ass could on old tomes of baseball statistics. Then I'd fill out two lineups from baseball history and play a game. (The fun was in tallying up stats and ERAs and things, I phear.)

I got in trouble once for yelling at my cousin when she and I were going to play and instead of putting in a real lineup (this was an age when I had the lineup of the '55 Dodgers memorized, among many) she put in the names of a little-league team from her school. Ted Williams playing against Lttle Johnny from down the street - it was blasphemy.

(Maybe this belongs on the 'weirdest kid in school' thread)