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