we also played Mensch-ärgere-dich-nicht in the camp and here in America. My Schumacher grandmother from Velimirowatz taught it to us and would cut up cardboard for the pieces. We played it with our cousins every time it rained and we couldn't play outside. The kids of today have no idea how to be inventive and imaginative despite their affluence and their many games and devices. Justine Zentner On 9/20/2014 3:04 AM, davey1947 via wrote: > One of the games we played was Sheephead ()he German name was Shaskopf, but I am not sure this is the correct spelling. This was a card game where there were Trump and there were fail cards. > Dave Weinfurtner > ---- Tina Michel via <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> Funny how some games are ''almost universal''. In Alsace and Lorraine >> (Lothringen), my grandparents and we kids as well, used to play >> Mensch-ärger-dich-nicht and Schwarzer-Peter. >> >> Tina Michel >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Nick Tullius via" <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> >> To: <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 1:30 PM >> Subject: Re: [DVHH] Games played by our ancestors >> >> >> I played that interesting game as a child, against a much older barber in >> Alexanderhausen, who claimed that I was the only one who could occasionally >> beat him. >> Other games we had were dominoes, chess, checkers, >> Mensch-ärgere-dich-nicht, and many card games that had schwowische names >> (like Kragle, Enunzwanzich, Schwarzer Peter, etc.). In my time, the men >> played for kernels of corn ("Kukruzkere"), but I understand that some >> serious money was used in earlier times, in unending games at the"Wirtshaus" >> (~tavern). >> >> Nick Tullius >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: donauschwaben-villages-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:donauschwaben-villages-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Darlene >> Dimitrie via >> Sent: 18-Sep-14 13:31 >> To: Donauschwaben-Villages@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [DVHH] Games played by our ancestors >> >> My sister and I were just thinking about a game my grandmother taught us >> when we were small. On a piece of cardboard, she would draw a game board >> with lines and 3 landing spots on each of the 4 sides and and then >> 2 more of these rectangles inside each other. We used buttons for play >> pieces. >> >> We called it "Figmill" -- maybe "Figmuehle" in German, I'm not sure. In >> later years we would draw it on the "holiday" tablecloth at big family >> get-togethers. Don't panic, the tablecloth was paper and white, not >> festive! My grandma had the best collection of buttons - she was so >> organized that she strung all the matching buttons on strings. >> >> All of us cousins firmly believed (assumed) that my grandmother invented >> this game. It wasn't until far into adulthood that we realized that this >> game had existed for centuries and was also known as Nine Men's Morris. We >> still haven't gotten over the shock and disappointment. >> >> Now, my mother tells me about another game the kids used to play while they >> were at the pasture, taking their cows to graze and were killing time >> waiting for them. It involved a stick and the loser removing clothes ... >> but enough said about that one. She claims that she didn't participate, >> just watched the others. >> >> Anybody know of any other games played by our ancestors? I was sure there >> was a page somewhere on one of the websites about it, but couldn't find it. >> >> -- >> Darlene >> http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D >> http://home.cogeco.ca/~lindarlene/Index.html >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ----- >> Aucun virus trouvé dans ce message. >> Analyse effectuée par AVG - www.avg.fr >> Version: 2013.0.3485 / Base de données virale: 4015/8243 - Date: 19/09/2014 >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My mother used to play frische vieren with me when I was a little boy but I have no recollection now of how the game was played! Sad! Tony > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:56:42 -0400 > To: donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DVHH] Games played by our ancestors > From: donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com > > we also played Mensch-ärgere-dich-nicht in the camp and here in America. > My Schumacher grandmother from Velimirowatz taught it to us and would > cut up cardboard for the pieces. We played it with our cousins every > time it rained and we couldn't play outside. > > The kids of today have no idea how to be inventive and imaginative > despite their affluence and their many games and devices. > Justine Zentner > > > > > > > On 9/20/2014 3:04 AM, davey1947 via wrote: > > One of the games we played was Sheephead ()he German name was Shaskopf, but I am not sure this is the correct spelling. This was a card game where there were Trump and there were fail cards. > > Dave Weinfurtner > > ---- Tina Michel via <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Funny how some games are ''almost universal''. In Alsace and Lorraine > >> (Lothringen), my grandparents and we kids as well, used to play > >> Mensch-ärger-dich-nicht and Schwarzer-Peter. > >> > >> Tina Michel > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Nick Tullius via" <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> > >> To: <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 1:30 PM > >> Subject: Re: [DVHH] Games played by our ancestors > >> > >> > >> I played that interesting game as a child, against a much older barber in > >> Alexanderhausen, who claimed that I was the only one who could occasionally > >> beat him. > >> Other games we had were dominoes, chess, checkers, > >> Mensch-ärgere-dich-nicht, and many card games that had schwowische names > >> (like Kragle, Enunzwanzich, Schwarzer Peter, etc.). In my time, the men > >> played for kernels of corn ("Kukruzkere"), but I understand that some > >> serious money was used in earlier times, in unending games at the"Wirtshaus" > >> (~tavern). > >> > >> Nick Tullius > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: donauschwaben-villages-bounces@rootsweb.com > >> [mailto:donauschwaben-villages-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Darlene > >> Dimitrie via > >> Sent: 18-Sep-14 13:31 > >> To: Donauschwaben-Villages@rootsweb.com > >> Subject: [DVHH] Games played by our ancestors > >> > >> My sister and I were just thinking about a game my grandmother taught us > >> when we were small. On a piece of cardboard, she would draw a game board > >> with lines and 3 landing spots on each of the 4 sides and and then > >> 2 more of these rectangles inside each other. We used buttons for play > >> pieces. > >> > >> We called it "Figmill" -- maybe "Figmuehle" in German, I'm not sure. In > >> later years we would draw it on the "holiday" tablecloth at big family > >> get-togethers. Don't panic, the tablecloth was paper and white, not > >> festive! My grandma had the best collection of buttons - she was so > >> organized that she strung all the matching buttons on strings. > >> > >> All of us cousins firmly believed (assumed) that my grandmother invented > >> this game. It wasn't until far into adulthood that we realized that this > >> game had existed for centuries and was also known as Nine Men's Morris. We > >> still haven't gotten over the shock and disappointment. > >> > >> Now, my mother tells me about another game the kids used to play while they > >> were at the pasture, taking their cows to graze and were killing time > >> waiting for them. It involved a stick and the loser removing clothes ... > >> but enough said about that one. She claims that she didn't participate, > >> just watched the others. > >> > >> Anybody know of any other games played by our ancestors? I was sure there > >> was a page somewhere on one of the websites about it, but couldn't find it. > >> > >> -- > >> Darlene > >> http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D > >> http://home.cogeco.ca/~lindarlene/Index.html > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > >> > >> ----- > >> Aucun virus trouvé dans ce message. > >> Analyse effectuée par AVG - www.avg.fr > >> Version: 2013.0.3485 / Base de données virale: 4015/8243 - Date: 19/09/2014 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message