Has anyone remembered "Hangman's Bluff" ... think that was the name. Game organizer would draw a large form shaped like a backward No. 7 with a short drawn rope hanging down; and then string out a lot of dashes which represented a quotation, saying, or names. The competitor would guess letters and for everyone missed, the organizer drew body parts starting with the head attaching the body to the rope. Eventually the party guessing the letters would win, or the body would be complete and the hangman won. My game rules might not be 100% but I recollect it was similar to what I've written. We had a wonderful time with many of these games. Iris, I remember the ball game and all of us being scolded always for playing against our house and especially the chimney. What the kids are missing today??? Gwen ----- Original Message ----- From: "AL BETTS" <[email protected]> To: "Novascotia request" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:59 PM Subject: [NS-L] School Games > In the 1950 era on P.E.I we had a game that we played on rainy days > and when the teacher didn't let us play cards at lunch time. > Each player would put down a row of numbers 1, to 0, or 10. We then put a > line under that row all the way across, then another line from 1-0 about > 1/2 inch below that. The next line went between the 1 and 2 down to 1/2 > inch below the last line drawn then across to the 0 again.This was > continued until you had all the lines in. you would end up with an angle > with 1 square under the 1, 2 squares under the 2 ect until you had 10 > squares under the 0. We would start the play with one player marking down > a # making sure the other player could not see what you put down. The > other player would then guess the #. If he failed you put the # in the > proper place on your card and put another # down for to guess. If he > guessed right he would put that # on his game card and you then took a > turn guessing. It was really a good game when we were doing the Christmas > concert thing. Al.