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