The Games We Played as Kids: Indoor Games Throwback
Here are the first 5/35 games we enjoyed playing as kids:
1. Snake and Ladder
This board game is a classic. It's an interactive game with 2 to 4 players and a dice. The goal is to race against their opponent to reach the top (100). Each player will take turns in rolling the dice. The number that the player rolled into will be added into his current position. If the player landed at the bottom of the stair, he will climb up; however, landing on the head of a snake will make the player slide down to its tail. The player who get to the 100 on the board first will be the winner.
This is a fun game I played not only with my brother and sister but also with my parents.
2. Scrabble
Another classic board game where 2 to 4 players are required to have 7-8 tiles each (depending on the condition before the game starts). The players need to take turns in constructing words attached to the previous words on the board. They draw new letters from the pile of letters to replace the tiles they've used. The goal is to use all the tiles of letters on hand to get a "SCRABBLE." But it is also better to assemble words with high-value-letters such as Z, Q, and J and align them on special boxes labeled Double and Triple Word Score, and Double and Triple Letter Score.
3. Sungka
If you are familiar with Bantumi, the game on Nokia 3310, then you'll be fine. I always played it when I learned how to use a phone and I got bored when I learned how to win on Bantumi. When I was older, I played Sungka with my classmates and borrow the Sungka Board from school. I don't own a board that's why we often just lay the pebbles on a concrete and pretend there were holes.
4. Dampa
This game requires only lastiko (rubber bands) and your own hands. Many players can join the game but it's better to minimize the players into 2 or have a maximum of 3 players. They will decide who goes first by jack-en-poy. The number of rubber bands depend on the selection of the group.
5. Teks
We frequently collected texted game cards as children. We ask our mother for money or take it from our allowances. And sometimes, just take coins from the corners of the house. Rascals, I know! These playing cards are a quarter size of Yu-Gi-Oh and magic cards. They contain pictures of anime, cartoons and other trending television shows.
The game is played in two ways. One is tossing the cards in the air until they lay flat on the ground while the other just uses a "high-five" more commonly known as apir. The first can have as many players as they want. One of the players gather the other player's pamato, their star card and include those with one master card. Or not. The cards are flicked upwards using the thumb and fore finger creating a cracking sound as the fingernail hits the card's surface. The cards who'll win is determined on the result of the master card. If the player's star card laid out the same as the master card (front or back), he wins. If a master card is not included, the card that's laid up front, wins. He'll have to collect opponents' cards. The price is, of course, dependent on the agreement before the game started. Sometimes, the player's count their cards in this manner(each syllable is one count summing up to 20), singing the chant: