Four Square

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You threw the ball at the wall and had to catch it on the bounceback before it hit the ground.

[Brett Favre 0]

I wish I played four square, never did.

 

The wall ball game, I think we played, but it was called A.S.S. You threw the ball against the wall, and another person had to get it off the wall clean, without dropping it. If he did, he had to forget about picking up the ball, and just run to the wall, or you'd get pegged with the ball. If the person got hit, he/she got A.and so forth to S, and then S. The person with A.S.S after the game would have to line up in front of the wall, and would have to get hit by everyone. Everyone got one throw.

 

Another game we played was manhunt, T.A.P.S (throw the ball, tap/catch it in mid-air and throw/tap it back before you hit the ground).

 

We also played spork fighting. The plastic sporks we got for lunch, we bent the end, and used the end to hit the front, till the front, like what you use to eat, would totally be gone. We had champs for that too.

 

Paper football we had tournaments. We had a game called can-ass where you had to spin a can on the table, and not let it drop. Then there was also always dodgeball, basketball, football and baseball.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

"throw ball against wall, if you miss you have to run to the wall

How the fuck do you miss a wall

 

Miss = If you failed to catch the rebounding ball.

 

BASERUNNER was the SHIT. How could I forget about baserunner? Baserunner w. 2 people running was tops.

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Ohhhhh I thought you meant you failed to hit the wall, and I was like how could THAT happen?

 

In 7th grade the big thing was shooting wasps. You'd make these little projectiles out of paper and a staple so they made a little V shape, and you'd launch them with a rubber band and hit people. They stung. Hence the name. People would try to find new ways to make them sting even more, like firing them harder, and attaching another staple so the ends faced out, and all that jazz, and you'd try to hit as many people as you could during the school day. That came to a screeching halt when the teachers and custodians began to notice the wasps all over the floor.

 

I don't remember much from 7th grade. My failure to purchase a yearbook has made it a lost year of sorts.

[Scroby 0]

We always played it with a tennis ball. It was nearly 20 years ago, though, so I don't remember a whole lot more about it.

 

We played another game (I don't remember the name - it may not have even had a name) where you had a group of kids throwing a tennis ball at a wall. If the ball came back and hit you without you catching it, or if you caught the ball with two hands, you had to run to the wall while the other kids tried to get the ball and hit you with it before you touched the wall. If they nailed you before you got to the wall three times, you had to go stand at the wall with your back to everyone else, while every other kid got to take a free shot at you with the ball. Good, sadistic fun.

 

We called it Suicide and many many a kids played it at once. Hell we played with more than 1 or 2 balls at times. The game was so fun, until we got it banned at our school.

[Cran Da Maniac 0]

Assassination (Or Elimination as it was called when we played at summer camp because our religious head counselor didn't like a name that glorified killing people) was a fun game that I loved. You basically played in an enclosed area (A Racquetball Court in our case) and it was like dogdeball, except it was a free for all. And whoever had possession of the ball could not move. Anybody ever play a game like that?

[EricMM 0]

They're all being banned because apparently fun is dangerous...

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

We had "wall ball", too, only we called it "BUTT ball" in a fit of creative genius. Although, we didn't use that pussy "after 3 times" rule. Each time a person didn't touch up the wall before the ball got there meant he had to take a free shot (only 1 person took a shot, though, usually the person who threw the ball that beat the touch-up).

[The Niggardly King 0]

I played Handball and Tennis back then... wasn't a big fan of Four Corners.

 

We had like this 100 feet feild that we would play Football on. We also had another game, but I forget the name of it. You'd run around the feild with a Football until you were tackled. You then had to throw the ball in the air, and someone else would catch it and we'd start it all over again. You'd win by the total times you had the ball and who held onto it the longest. Fun game.

[Art Sandusky 0]

That sounds like Smear the Queer.

[Brett Favre 0]

We didn't have a name for that, and no points either. We just played till there was no time left.

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Nobody else played 500?

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

We played another game (I don't remember the name - it may not have even had a name) where you had a group of kids throwing a tennis ball at a wall. If the ball came back and hit you without you catching it, or if you caught the ball with two hands, you had to run to the wall while the other kids tried to get the ball and hit you with it before you touched the wall. If they nailed you before you got to the wall three times, you had to go stand at the wall with your back to everyone else, while every other kid got to take a free shot at you with the ball. Good, sadistic fun.

 

This was dubbed "Eliminator" at the daycare where I used to work.

 

Furthermore, 500 was terrible. Hotbox, on the other hand...

[EricMM 0]

Of course we all played 500...

[Art Sandusky 0]

We didn't. The fuck is 500?

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One person calls out a number and throws a football, if you catch it you get the points, fumble it, you lose them, and you have to get to 500. We played it a lot in 2nd grade before wallball got big the next year.

[CanadianChris 0]

We used to play 500 with a baseball. Same concept, except you could get half points for catching it on the first bounce.

[EricMM 0]

Except people would just fuck around with "Jackpot!" or however you said it around where you live, and I think taht meant a mystery number of points..

 

Except you just gave your friends a lot..

[Brett Favre 0]

That sounds fun. I'd like to play that now.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Four Square was the shit. Sometime last year, a few of my friends and I got extremely substance-addled and spontaneously started a game for nostalgia's sake. I think I was better at it when I was 10.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Fuck dodgeball, Four Square is the childhood game that should have nonsensically taken off.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

We used to play 500 with a baseball. Same concept, except you could get half points for catching it on the first bounce.

 

Yeah, we did too. Man, I had totally forgotten about that.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

This is awesome!

 

I thought I was the only one who played British Bulldog/Red Ass/Foot hockey.

 

Nothing will ever top the day in Grade 5 when all the snow piled up as high as our fence and we had a Royal Rumble. Nick Hodges' jacket got torn, he cried to our French teacher for some reason...that was the end of that.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I destroyed about five kids' glasses during my dodgeball career. Didn't play much Four Square, though. Smear the queer was massive.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I destroyed about five kids' glasses during my dodgeball career. Didn't play much Four Square, though. Smear the queer was massive.

 

Read the last line of what you typed, then look at your signature. It's enough to make one stop and think.

[Markme123 0]

My history of school sports:

 

 

Dodgeball - 1st grade

Tetherball - 2nd/3rd grade

Four Square - 4th/5th grade

--there was also a game that i played at my new school that was basically Four Square with only 2 squares)--

Soccer - 5th grade (new school with lots of Mexicans)

Basketball (21/half court games)- 6th/7th grade

Butts Up - 7th/8th grade

Smear the Queer - 8th grade

Slaughterball - Rainy day P.E. 6th thru 8th

Basketball (Full court Games)- Sophmore/Junior year in High school

The cool thing to do in High School was just to "hang out" so sports kind of stopped...

 

*sigh*

[Guest Felonies!]

Heads Up Seven Up was gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Heads Up Seven Up was gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

 

Agreed. I'll never understand why it was so beloved.

 

Any of the canucks on this board ever play Dix in French class?

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Apart from that Simpsons where they're using the statue of Jimmy Carter/Marge, I've never, ever, ever seen anyone play tetherball.

[BruiserKC 0]

Tetherball...that game was fun.

 

Kickball was where it was at though. That was the game from 4th-6th grade where you could determine your manhood.