#66

I remember Kiss, Cuddle or Torture from around the same age - torture was a kiss AND a cuddle.

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#67

:smiley:

#69

See also: slapping peoples ears because of tango. That one was really nasty

#70

Marbles.

Hierarchy of marbles in our junior school playground went cats eyes < chinas < galaxies < any other unusual marble <<<<<< ball bearings.

Ball bearings were the absolute pinnacle of marbling, which is stupid really, and if you had a parent in engineering (I didn’t) you could absolutely clean up in swapsies.

#71

And Panini stickers, obvs

#72

Marbles
Yo-yos
Bouncy balls
Raps
Mercy
British bulldog
Rubik’s cube
Wedgies (including an occasional egg wedgie)

#73

Chinese burns. Probably not called that anymore are they.

#74

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#75

There was a big craze for a really boring gambling game called penny-to-the-wall at our school. Everyone threw a penny at the wall and whoever went closest won all the pennies.

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#76

Ah, that was awesome! Some of the high rollers used 50p’s at my school. You could seriously enhance your lunch with that sort of wedge.

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#77

That thing where you try and get a coin on the opposite edge of the table in 2 moves (firstly a push, then a pivot thing) then flick it up and catch it, then the other person makes a ‘goal’ with their fingers, you spin the coin on the table and catch it between your thumbs and fling it towards the ‘goal’.

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#78

I went to florida when I was eight and cats cradle was a massive thing over there (it probs wasn’t but I bought a kit and a book) and brought it back home and tried to make it a thing.

#79

Ah, table rugby! I spent many a rainy lunchtime playing that :slight_smile:

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#80

Long strange story alert:

in primary school we had this bizarre craze/game called ‘tonju’, which somebody there
must’ve invented 'cos I’ve never seen evidence of it before or since. Anyway, you built up a collection of Panini stickers and the like, each of which had a specific points value determined by the community (e.g. a middling Rangers player was worth 20 points, a club badge was worth 100 points, a repurposed playing card was a desperate 1 point). So, a group of you got together and decided to play ‘tonju’ for a set number of points (say 50), which meant ‘playing’ with your choice of stickers/cards etc totalling that value. All were placed face-down on the ground/table, and you took turns trying to flip them upright with a clap/slap of your hand. If you turned one over successfully, you got another shot, and the person turning over the last sticker scooped the entire haul. Half the school got hooked on this game, fights occurred over contentious plays etc, and needless to say, the headmistress eventually banned it. So many fond memories - my shiny silver Dunfermline club crest was worth a massive 125 points…

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#81

When I first started secondary school there was a big craze for bubblegum that turned your mouth blue. Was a bit pointless as the teachers could see that you had been chewing it from all the blue dye around your mouth

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#82

pogs, yoyos, marbles (for a bit), and also gogos, remember them?

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#83

On the subject of pennies…

Penny football!

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#84

Aye, we played that too. “Penny jip”, we called it, but the game could involve any denomination of coin. If you landed the coin so it ended up propped between wall and ground you got extra rewards, but alas, I can’t remember what…

#85

I was well into pogs but nobody else at school was. Had some dodgy unofficial pogs made of metal with sawteeth edges.

About a year later everybody got well into Tazos but I just wasn’t interested anymore

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#87

i had some fine bouncers in my pog collection

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i had the sun one (bottom right) and the POG one on top of it. major nostalgia vibes atm

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