Other Traditional Games

**Twenty Things You May Or May Not Like To Know About Me** 1 If you'd been born a girl instead of a boy or vice-versa, do you know what name your parents would have given you? If I was a BOY, Daniel and if I was a GIRL, Hannah.... I don't know how I ended up with Lisa!!! 2 Do you share a birthday with anyone famous? Price William was born the day after me, but other than that, I don't know 3 Marmite, do you love it or hate it? Love it. With cheese on toast, in mashed potato on cottage pie topping. Hhmmmm yummy 4 What book are you currently reading, or have you finished recently? Dean Koontz - The ...  Read the complete review

20 questions, this can be played like this set of questions, or as Yes/No questions and if the person says something else, they are out,or as trying to find out who they are (i.e. they are given a label on their back such as Minnie Mouse and have to find out their new identity): 1 If you'd been born a girl instead of a boy or vice-versa, do you know what name your parents would have given you? No, but my brother is called David, so I might have been called that. My parents had enough problem finding a first name for me - Yvonne - they had to ask the grandparents to write lists as well as writing one each themselves. Yvonne was the only name on all the ...  Read the complete review

Dominoes. What are Dominoes? No they are not Pizza’s, at least not the ones I am talking about. Dominoes originate from China where there are records of them being made in 1120. These early tiles were made from bone or ivory. Chinese dominoes are longer than the ones we play with. Dominoes were played in the courts in Venice in the 14C. They arrived in Britain in the 14C from France. Domino is the name of a black and white hood worn by Christian priests in winter; it is supposed that this is where the name comes from Dominoes are a simple game consisting of 28 tiles. A centre line divides each rectangular tile; on either side ...  Read the complete review

I don't know how often over the years I've found my own children seemed to derive more pleasure from playing with the packaging of their presents at Christmas, than the actual contents. You've probably heard this said many times, so have I, but it really is true. Just think for yourself the number of possibilities which can come from a large cardboard box. I've seen it become a castle, fort, boat, house and numerous other things over the years, The computer games, once mastered, no longer hold a challenge and were usually cast aside on Boxing Day or else swapped for another, with a friend. It seems things haven't really ...  Read the complete review

Anyone who read my dooyoo Christmas wishlist will know that the game 'Gooey Louie' was pretty near the top. And anyone who read the comments on my dooyoo Christmas wishlist will know that I accidently tripped over a Gooey Louie in our attic a couple of weeks before Christmas. So, it will come as no surprise that, as soon as we had eaten the last mouthful of Christmas pudding, the table was cleared, the cellophane was eagerly ripped off the box and my husband and father were roped in for some serious - if rather disgusting - game playing. The box contained a plastic head - which disconcertingly has four eyes and two tongues. (yes, we were all perfectly ...  Read the complete review