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Posted: 8/24/2021 10:43:44 PM EDT

I remember as a kid, most all my country relatives had permanent horseshoe pits set up.

I don't see many anymore.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:44:30 PM EDT

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Shuffleboard

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:44:47 PM EDT

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Shuffleboard

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:46:06 PM EDT

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Croquet

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:46:17 PM EDT

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I still see this at campgrounds and such.

But definitely not quite as much as before.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:47:21 PM EDT

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Actually pretty fun to play.

Yeah, don't see as many sets for sale in stores anymore.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:48:35 PM EDT

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Lawn darts.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:50:53 PM EDT

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Was lots of fun!

We played dodge the darts at night as kids. Lol.

No one died, lol.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:54:21 PM EDT

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Attached File

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:54:26 PM EDT

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Tetherball

Can't remember the last time I saw one.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:55:11 PM EDT

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Five finger fillet

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:55:14 PM EDT

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Smear the queer!...

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:56:16 PM EDT

[#12]

Jack's and marbles

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:56:50 PM EDT

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Naked twister.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:57:16 PM EDT

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Lol!

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:57:39 PM EDT

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Can't remember the last time I saw one.

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Still have lots of those around here.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:58:12 PM EDT

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Kickball

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:58:18 PM EDT

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Duels to the death.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:58:27 PM EDT

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Interesting, thanks!

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:58:36 PM EDT

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That game was so fun. We played football in gym with all the damn rules that you were too impatient for and some kid asked, why can't we just tackle the guy with the ball like in smear?

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:59:30 PM EDT

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Marbles and Jax

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:59:34 PM EDT

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We had the biggest backyard in the hood.

Official Smear the Queer field!

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:59:41 PM EDT

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Dirt clod fights.

Posted: 8/24/2021 10:59:55 PM EDT

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HorseShoes

CornHole is for CornHoles

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:00:30 PM EDT

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we still play croquet but see more corn hole than horse shoes these days, horse shoes are fun but I had to learn the hard way to take them off the horse first.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:02:22 PM EDT

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I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
I kinda outgrew it

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:02:35 PM EDT

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The 80s rocked!

Broken orbital bones to prove it, lol!

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:02:42 PM EDT

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There's an adult version called sloshball.

Kickball with a keg at second

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:03:29 PM EDT

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All of the above

And fat kids were rarer.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:04:01 PM EDT

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Actually pretty fun to play.

Yeah, don't see as many sets for sale in stores anymore.

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I found a decent croquet set at a junk shop this spring and we have set it up and played several times.
I had been trying to find a nice set for a while but there was like no middle ground. Either cheap and junk or they jumped up to like $600 sets with still mixed reviews.
Me and my son played shuffleboard a few times at our resort on vacation.
No clue if we were doing it right: just kind of made up our own rules but we had fun.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:04:13 PM EDT

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we still play croquet but see more corn hole than horse shoes these days, horse shoes are fun but I had to learn the hard way to take them off the horse first.

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Posted: 8/24/2021 11:05:32 PM EDT

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And fat kids were rarer.

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Posted: 8/24/2021 11:06:39 PM EDT

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I haven't seen an outdoor shuffleboard court since I was a child at a campground, but shufflepuck tables are pretty popular at craft beer and hipster cocktail bars

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:10:23 PM EDT

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You're just not going to the right parties.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:11:54 PM EDT

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Zimm Zamm.

Not to be confused w George.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:12:59 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/24/2021 11:14:47 PM EDT

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Strip poker...
At least personally...

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:26:43 PM EDT

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Badminton.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:28:37 PM EDT

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Jai Alai

Big time in Miami during the 80s

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:29:55 PM EDT

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Racist?

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:30:24 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/24/2021 11:30:45 PM EDT

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Smear the Queer with a side of Atomic Wedgie.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:32:17 PM EDT

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Chicken

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:32:39 PM EDT

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I bet lots of kids play biscuit these days though.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:35:26 PM EDT

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Was gonna run with this but yesterday my buddy's kids were actually messing around with a badminton set and I informed my buddy that the projectile was a shuttlecock.

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:50:00 PM EDT

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Was gonna run with this but yesterday my buddy's kids were actually messing around with a badminton set and I informed my buddy that the projectile was a shuttlecock.

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I haven't played in 100 years. We have a volleyball net set somewhere around here. Off to Amazon for a racquet set and some shuttlecocks...

Posted: 8/24/2021 11:52:15 PM EDT

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Bataka therapy

Posted: 8/25/2021 12:02:01 AM EDT

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How about playing war. We used to get sticks or branches shaped roughly like guns a chase each other around and "shoot" each other. Also ambushes and sneaking up on people. When I got older I actually started taking boards and cutting the shapes of different guns out and painting them. Used dowel rods for barrels and even made sights. I would hand them out when we'd play. Pretty badass when we were kids.

Likely make national news and likely get a kid shot nowadays.

Posted: 8/25/2021 12:04:48 AM EDT

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Steel tip darts.

I'm in a city with easily a thousand bars within a 10 mile radius and we probably have only a half dozen bars with steel tip dartboards. Lots of plastic electronic crap but steel is becoming a rarity.