What games did you play in your home and your neighborhood when you were growing up?

In the neighborhood, we played Hide and Go Seek, along with a lot of games that involved running and hiding, such as Cowboys and Indians or Cops and Robbers, or variations on that theme.  We played softball, Bad Minton, we bicycled everywhere and anywhere we wanted to go.  We had no fears.  It was a wonderful time to grow up.  When I was in the sixth grade, in the summertime, we had Monopoly marathons.  One of the neighbor girls always cheated and we all knew she cheated - so there would be hard feelings and we would all be in snit for a week or two.  Then she would apologize - we would do it again with the same result!

At home, we played a lot of card games.  Smut was one of our family favorites and we of course played Old Maid & Go Fish.   We also played a game involving cards and spoons.  I remember if you got rid of all of your cards you grabbed a spoon (I think).  It was kind of like UNO.  We played SORRY!, Mousetrap and other board games.  In fact every Christmas we would get a new game to play.  We didn't have TV when I grew up except for a few years here and there.  We read and played games.  I remember the year Marianne got the game "Dream Date" (was that what it was called?)  We played it all of the time for the first few weeks.  But we figured out really quick how to get the 'dreamy guy' and avoid the creepy one.  We pulled it out every so often to play but once you played it and could rig it - it wasn't quite as much fun. 

One of the things I have missed being in Rhode Island is having family to play games with.  I love visiting our children and grandchildren and then the games come out.  Clyde and I play Scrabble and Upwords but we are too evenly matched and we literally win back and forth.