"entrance to a shared student room, and the toll being the rapid consumption of an alcoholic beverage. A flat-sided conker (fruit of a horse-chestnut) is known as a cheeser, an ""-er"" contraction of ""cheese-cutter"". The names applied to conkers that have triumphed in conker fights are arguably ""-er"" forms (""one-er"", ""twelver"", ""etc""), though ""conker"" itself is derived from a dialect word for the shell of a snail. There are few ""-ers"" in the books of P. G. Wodehouse, though, with reference to a boundary in cricket scoring four runs, his poem, ""The Cricketer in Winter"" contained the line, ""And giving"
"that it is onomatopoeia, representing the sound made by a horse chestnut as it hits another hard object, such as a skull (another children's ""game"", also called conkers, consists of simply throwing the seeds at one another over a fence or wall). Conkers are also known regionally as ""cheesers"". Although a ""cheeser"" is a conker with one or more flat sides, this comes about due to it sharing its pod with other conkers (twins or triplets). Also ""Cheggers"" was used in Lancaster, England in the 1920s. In D. H. Lawrence's book ""Sons and Lovers"", the game is referred to as"
"center of the board. In 2004, the game was republished as ""Roller Bowl"" by Winning Moves Games USA. Its original name was restored in 2007. ""Tickle Bee"" (1956) is a physical skill game for one player ages 3 and up. Components consist of a molded plastic maze covered with a clear plastic film, a metal ""bee"" confined within the maze, and a magnetic wand. The game is won when the bee is guided through the maze without touching the tip of the wand. Schaper Toys Schaper Toys, or W.H. Schaper Mfg. Co., Inc. as it was originally known, was a"
"they fail before the ball touches any part of their body. The ball cannot be torn out of any of the player's hands. Like other children's games, this game has many variations to shape it in the manner they like to play. Some common variations are: The name of the game varies with region. In the United States, the descriptive name ""Keep Away"" seems to prevail, while Canadian children commonly call the game either ""Pig in the Middle"" (Western Canada) or ""Monkey in the Middle"" (Eastern Canada, parts of New England, and parts of the Midwest). In the UK, Australia"
"Light as a feather, stiff as a board Light as a feather, stiff as a board, sometimes known as pig in a blanket, stiff as a board, is a game played by children at slumber parties. The phrase has also become established in popular culture as a reference to a levitation trick, and has been referred to in various media accounts. In performing magic this effect is known as abnormal lift. One participant lies flat on the floor, and then the others space themselves around him or her, each placing one or two fingertips underneath the participant's limbs. The person"
"is called a ""Sixer"", an older cub scout in the pack. Second in command of a six is a ""Second"". Each week the sixes take turns to be in charge of some of the packs activities, such as selecting some of the games to play, and taking charge of the parade. Each six wears a distinctive colour patch on their uniform based on the six Wolf Cubs from the Jungle Book: Tawney Fur, Black Plume, Grey Brother, Red Fang, White Claw, and Brown Tip. The ""Pack Council"" is an informal meeting of Leaders and the Sixers, and often Seconds (although"
"a frying pan. The child scores 10 points per fish finger in the frying pan. Time limit is 45 seconds. Teams play one at a time. The child takes pieces of plastic French toast (which Dave always refers to as ""toasty soldiers"" or ""egg soldiers"") and has to crawl through a series of gates that resembled a giant toast rack, while the adult, dressed as a chef (and has both legs bound together by a band commonly used for three-legged races) has to place pieces of toast on the gates to slow the child down. (Dave places a piece in"
"its ""Century of Toys List"" of the 100 most memorable and most creative toys of the 20th century. The Game of Cootie The Game of Cootie is a children's dice rolling and set collection tabletop game for two to four players. The object is to be the first to build a three-dimensional bug-like object called a ""cootie"" from a variety of plastic body parts. Created by William Schaper in 1948, the game was launched in 1949 and sold millions in its first years. In 1973, ""Cootie"" was acquired by Tyco Toys, and, in 1986, by Hasbro subsidiary Milton Bradley. The"
"games from its Golden Valley, Minnesota headquarters. In Australia, the game was distributed by Toltoys in the late 60s under the title ""Creepy Critters"". ""Cootie"" was one of many revamped traditional games cast in plastic by the Schaper company. Several games had bug titles such as ""Tickle Bee"", ""Inch Worm"", and ""Tumble Bug"". The company eventually produced ""Cootie"" spinoffs such as ""Giant Cootie"" and ""Deluxe 6 Cootie"", a game with six cooties instead of four. In the late 1960s, Sears offered an exclusive ""Cootie House"" with a vinyl mat and eight Cooties. Tyco Toys bought W.H. Schaper Mfg. Co. Inc."
"was acquired by Tyco Toys, which is now a division of Mattel Inc. In the deal, Tyco sold the rights to four Schaper games including ""Cootie"" to Hasbro's Milton Bradley division. ""Cootie"" is manufactured and sold today through Milton Bradley with legs featuring in-line skates, sneakers, and other fanciful accessories. ""Big Mouth"" (1968) is a game for 2 to 4 players. Each player is given a giant fork, a green insect, and a paper plate that contains 6 different plastic food items (bananas, carrots, grapes, lemons, pineapples, strawberries). The players take turns using a spinner. If a spin yields a"
"Bob the Builder, would always yell, ""CAN HE/SHE KICK IT?"" The audience would yell back, ""YES, HE/SHE CAN!"" Both teams play at once. The adults are dressed as cherry cupcakes containing cherries that the children have to grab and place in their baskets. The adults can run around and pick cherries from the nearby trees. At the end of one minute, the children score 10 points per cherry in the basket. Teams play one at a time. The child runs across a road (actually a reversing treadmill) powered by their adult pedaling on an exercise bike as fast as they"
"all three colours together correctly (and earn 60 points) opens a vat which releases blue or yellow gunge on the matching adult. This game does not have a time limit; the game ends when an adult gets gunged. Teams play one at a time. The adult is dressed in a giant spider costume and hangs above a web with flies attached to it. He/she has to throw the flies away while the child has to grab flies off the netting before the spider grabs them and stick them on a sticky lollipop. The child scores 10 points per fly on"
"who is sitting behind the plexiglass. Pies in your Pants: Using a catapult, one team member launches pies toward their teammate, who tries to catch them in oversized clown pants. The most pies in the pants at the end of a minute won. Rubber Baby Bungee Jumpers: In a large contraption one player is hooked into an enlarged diaper suspended in mid-air. The other player rolls down balloons down a ramp which is below the suspended player. Bouncing up and down, the diapered player pops the balloons, allowing the ""milk"" to pass the line in their bucket. First team to"
"Butts Up Butts Up (A.K.A. ""Spread Eagle"", ""A-Ball"", ""Asses Up"", ""Assies' Rehab & Tea"", ""Suey"", ""Balliver Shagnasty's Revenge"", ""Balls Deep"", ""Ballsies"", ""Beartrap"" , ""Blackjack"" (along with many other colloquial names)) is a North American elementary school children's playground game originating in the 1950s or earlier. It is slightly similar to the game Screen Ball. Butts Up or Booties Up began in the 1940s or 1950s as a penalty phase of various city street games. Butts Up is played with a ball (such as a tennis ball, handball, or racquetball) on a paved surface against a wall, with a variable number"
"a voice box. Despite being advertised as having five phrases in the movie, the actual toy only possessed four. In 1999, Tiger Electronics released an electronic LED game called ""Boogey Ball"". The gameplay is similar to ""Pac-Man"", in that the player travels a green LED light through a maze of 30 LED lights and either has to avoid the red or catch the yellow light. The game was known for its Austin Powers-type voice; the electronic voice would often say ""baby"". When the game is first turned on, it says ""Oh you turn me on baby, let's boogey!"" This game"
"a turf playing field, a pool, an obstacle course, and the Aggro Crag. On each half-hour episode, three children or teenagers (blue, red and purple) compete against each other in four events that are based on ""extreme"" versions of skills in popular sports, such as basketball, baseball, football, and soccer. While most of these events include the use of an elastic harness, others make use of a wave pool, and sometimes a racing track is used. During the show's run, more creative and ambitious events were developed, even including a fabricated ski slope. The competitors are awarded points based on"
"Italy children have the term ""la peste"" (""the plague""). Cooties are known in Denmark as ""pigelus"" and ""drengelus"" and in Norway as ""jentelus"" and ""guttelus"": each pair meaning literally ""girl lice"" and ""boy lice"". In Sweden and Finland, it usually refers to girls, where they are known as ""tjejbaciller"" (literally ""girl bacilli"") and ""tyttöbakteeri"" (""girl bacteria""). In Serbia the game is known as ""šuga""; the word means scabies. A child is said to ""catch"" cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an ""infected"" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age."
"""""Bucca Bucca quot sunt hic?"""". Pieter Bruegel's painting ""Children's Games"" (1560) depicts children playing a variant of the game. In the United Kingdom, the game is sometimes called High Cockalorum, but has a large number of different names in various local dialects. These include: 'Polly on the Mopstick' in Birmingham, 'Strong Horses, Weak Donkeys' in Monmouthshire, 'Hunch, Cuddy, Hunch' in west Scotland, 'Mont-a-Kitty' in Middlesbrough, 'Husky Fusky Finger or Thumb' in Nottinghamshire, 'High Jimmy Knacker' in east London, 'Jump the Knacker 1-2-3' in Watford, 'Wall-e-Acker' or 'Warny Echo' in north West London, 'Stagger Loney' in Cardiff and 'Trust' in Lancashire."
"Punch buggy Punch buggy (also called punch bug, punch car, punch dub, piggy punch, slug bug, or beetle bug) is a car game generally played by children in which participants punch each other on the arm upon first sight of a Volkswagen Beetle while calling out ""Punch buggy!"" or ""Slug bug!"" in reference to the Beetle's nickname, the Bug. The color of the Beetle is also sometimes stated. Most references about the game originate from unofficial sources and personal accounts from players. It apparently has existed since the Volkswagen's peak popularity in the 1960s. As part of the ""Punch Dub"""
"landing on the ground. For children, their bets are just teks or playing cards as well. But for adults, they use it for money betting or gambling. A game involving two pairs, with one utilizing a stretched length of garter. One pair faces each other from a distance and has the garter stretched around them in such a way that a pair of parallel lengths of garter is between them. The members of the other pair, then begin doing a jumping ""routine"" over the garters while singing a song (""ten, twenty, thirty, and so on until one hundred). Each level"
"boys in this arena was Criss Fraser from Birmingham, Alabama. She beat all the 11-year-old boys at the local competition in Gardendale, Alabama. The Birmingham News and area North Jefferson News covered the story in their publications. Punt, Pass, and Kick Punt, pass and kick (PP&K) was a skills competition offered by the US National Football League for children aged 6 to 15. PP&K began in 1961 and at one time, event highlights were shown by CBS Sports as part of its NFL coverage. The contest received renewed attention in 1995 when Kendra Wecker, a 12-year-old girl from Kansas, made"
"to Schaper's, both were paper and pencil games. In 1937, Rork's released ""The Game of Cootie"", and it too was a paper and pencil game. A paper and pencil party game called ""Beetle"" is popular in Britain but its date of origin is unknown. In 1939, Transogram published ""Cootie"", a game featuring a three-dimensional wooden bug assembled in a die-cut tray. Schaper's game was the first to employ a fully three-dimensional, free-standing plastic cootie. Schaper's plastic bug has become an icon, and, for some, a symbol for the baby boomer generation. In 2003, the Toy Industry Association included ""Cootie"" on"
"Euchre Euchre or eucre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24, 28, or sometimes 32, standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best Bower (from the German word ""Bauer"", ""farmer"", denoting also the Jack). It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo."
"Ship, captain, and crew Ship, Captain, and Crew (also referred to as Ship of Fools, Motha Fuc*a Jones , Gary's Dice Game, Clickety Clack, 6-5-4 or Destroyer) is a drinking game played with five dice. The game can be played with as few as two people, but is usually played in a group of five or more. The object of the game is to roll a six (the ""ship""), a five (""captain""), and a four (""crew"") with three dice, and get the highest score with the other two dice (""the ship's cargo""). Alternatively, the game may be played for antes"
"version played by children mostly in warmer climates. One player who is ""it"" goes around the circle with a container of water and ""drips"" a small amount on each person's head. They will then select someone in the circle to ""drop"" the entire container on top of them. This player will then try to tag the ""it"" before the ""it"" sits in the spot of the person who got ""dropped"" on. If ""it"" is tagged then they will remain ""it"" for another round. A similar, common Afrikaner game is called ""vroteier"", meaning rotten egg. Instead of saying anything or pointing"
"back inside the volcano. The children score 10 points per boulder in the holder. Time limit is 60 seconds. When introducing this game, Lisa would say, ""It's goodness, gracious..."", prompting the audience to finish the song lyric: ""Great balls of fire!"" Both teams play at once. The adults are dressed in chicken costumes and have to defend gold eggs which the children try to steal and place in a nest at the opposite end of the inflatable obstacle course, divided into four sections and filled with green and red balls commonly seen in play equipment in places such as McDonald's."
"Fast and Loose (con game) Fast and Loose is a cheating game played at fairs by sharpers. It is also known as Pricking the Garter (Renaissance), The Strap (1930 con man argot), The Old Army Game (World War II), The Australian Belt, and Pricking at the Belt. The basic game is played with a circle of some sort of material, typically belts or garters in the past, or loops of string or jewellery chains in modern times. It is placed on a table in such a way that it forms two open loops. The player, or mark, places their finger"
"author suggests similar games with station wagons, convertibles, trucks and buses. Punch buggy Punch buggy (also called punch bug, punch car, punch dub, piggy punch, slug bug, or beetle bug) is a car game generally played by children in which participants punch each other on the arm upon first sight of a Volkswagen Beetle while calling out ""Punch buggy!"" or ""Slug bug!"" in reference to the Beetle's nickname, the Bug. The color of the Beetle is also sometimes stated. Most references about the game originate from unofficial sources and personal accounts from players. It apparently has existed since the Volkswagen's"
"one open path must be provided. ""Shake"" (1950) is a game of chance for two to four players ages 8 to adult. The object of the games is to complete a row of six numbers in the same line; either straight across, up and down, or diagonal from corner to corner. Components consist of a plastic board, chips, and dice. ""Stadium Checkers"" (1952) is a race game for two to four players ages 8 to adult. The object of the game is to move one's five colored marbles from the outer rim of the 'stadium' to a slot in the"
"games. Children and adolescents (U12) play with fun speeders on a smaller court (4x4 m) over a smaller distance (9 meters). The aim of the game is to reach the square of the opposite player with the speeder. If the speeder falls outside the opposite square, the other side gains a point. Both players are allowed to step out of, or any where inside their square during play. The game ends when one player has at least 16 points and has at least 2 points advantage over their opponent. Every time a set/round finishes, the players switch sides. A set"
"""Swanson Kids Grilled Cheese Barnie Bear"", ""Campbell's Dinosaur Vegetable Soup"", ""Campbell's Teddy Bears"", ""Cry Baby"" candy, ""Pepsi"" and ""Diet Pepsi"", ""Cheetos Chester"", ""Peter Pan Creamy"", and ""Franco American Spaghetti Os"" (Johnson 1998, 126-138). Other food products were also advertised and food coupons were offered with the vehicles. These cars were usually offered in two packs. Another popular line were the 'Circus' vehicles and Coca-Cola brand cars. Majorette was always oriented to play value with sets, tracks, and accessories (Richardson 1999, pp. 156,175). During the 1980s and 1990s Majorette made play sets called Majo-kits. Majo-kits came with plastic pavement pieces that"
"for children, easily constructed from logs of different sizes. The words of ""See Saw Margery Daw"" reflect children playing on a see-saw and singing this rhyme to accompany their game. No person has been identified by the name ""Margery Daw"" and so it is assumed that this was purely used to rhyme with the words 'seesaw'. The rhyme may have its origins as a work song for sawyers, helping to keep rhythm when using a two-person saw. In his 1640 play ""The Antipodes"", Richard Brome indicated the connection between sawyers and the phrase ""see saw sacke a downe"". The game"
"'let' is played. This version of the game is played at St John's School in Leatherhead. The St John's version is very similar to the Eton version but does not include the step between the front and the back sections of the court. In 2011 the courts at St John's underwent an upgrade. Played at the St Gissop School, West Sussex, this version is similar to Eton Fives except that a bevelled stone 'balustrade' features three feet and three inches above the floor of the tangential wall of the court. The game was supposedly invented by alumnus George Henry Steering,"