CB's Question of the Day

[cabenson]

What was your favorite outdoor game as a child?

My answer: Lawn darts (my eye!) and a game we made up called "Butt Beater" which was similar to tag but involved a wiffleball bat.

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[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

My cousins and I made up a game called Devil. Basically, it was like the coolest variant of Tag ever. Players were divided into pairs, excepting the Devil, who was "It" (with an even number of players, the Devil could either have a henchman or one of the teams could have three players, depending). All players excepting the Devil also had a "talisman" (a fifty-cent word, at least for an eight year old, that I got out of some book), which was usually a toy or a doll or something. (One of my cousins liked to use a Ring Pop.) Said talisman gave you magical powers of your own choosing. If you chose to have Freeze Power, then when the Devil tried to tag you, you could freeze him and run away. If you had Hop Power (we had very inventive names), you would make the Devil hop on one foot and then you could escape. But if you didn't manage to point at him and state your power before he tagged you, then he took your talisman and hid it, and if he caught you before you had found it and were therefore powerless, you went to jail. Because it would have been blasphemous to go to hell. Then your partner had to find your talisman and use it to rescue you before *they* got caught.

It is a game that tended to go on forever, but it was a great deal of fun.

We also used to play Cops and Robbers after dark. At least until I (a perpetual cop) chased one of my cousins up a set of brick stairs and he fell and knocked three of his front teeth out.

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Oh god, that sounds so sophisticated. We just "tagged" each other by pounding them with a plastic bat.