house rules that you or friends had when you played games

1) the curb is out of bounds, NOT the grass, in touch football

2) in four square, if you say "four corners", everybody has to go to the corner of the square and can only field the ball from there

3) one of my friends insisted if you said "spot" during basketball, you could take a free shot and nobody would guard you. we did not agree and promptly stole the ball from them and scored at the other end

4) in basketball, the three point line is behind the crack in the middle of the driveway. although it's a short distance, this is the three point line because our driveway is on an incline and so it's above 10 feet from here.

5) if you fling the ball at someone ball and it rolls down the hill it's a technical foul and u gotta sit and cool off.

QUARTERS RULES

1. No profanity
2. No pointing unless with elbows
3. Can't say drink, drank, or drunk
4. Can't touch the quarter until it is still
5. Close your left eye and say "schezemmo" when you drink
6. If you hit it 7 times in a row, you must give Rob a cigarette
7. Every time you do "excuse me" things, you have to put your thumb on your forehead
8. John always drinks
9. Matt drinks twice as much as John
10. If you hit 4 times in a row you get to make someone do something stupid
11. No saying "consume"
12. Julie always drinks
13. Ransom always has to do something stupid
14. Somebody has to buy a pack of cigarettes
15. Everyone always drinks

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Pretty common for kids a long time ago, not sure if it still holds: if you pick up the baseball while you're at bat, you're out. (Now that baseball's so much more readily available on TV, and you see that all the time, probably long gone.)

mickeys pink butthole

lol at schezemmo

either everyone gets a chance to play as oddjob or no one does

when you're playing street football, if you don't think you can field the kickoff (ok, throwoff) cleanly, you say "no take" and they do it again.

the first person to declare that of _course_ monopoly isn't fun, it's not _supposed_ to be fun, it's a more-or-less direct copy of a socialist propaganda game meant to show how unfair and coercive the legal existence of "landlords" is, made by people who didn't understand the need for socialist revolutionary action... the first person who says that wins, but really we all win, because then we get to stop playing monopoly and do something actually fun, like reading books or playing "golgo 13: top secret episode".

my parents both had masters degrees. my childhood sucked.

I love Monopoly, when it's played on computer (so you're not constantly calculating mortgage rates and counting bills). Once, as an experiment, I played at max difficulty against three computer opponents, and attempted to (and succeeded at!) communising the board. I bankrupted all my opponents to a point that they surrendered their properties over to me (but didn't go bust and be out of the game), and judiciously mortgaged properties I owned so most of the board was safe. I eventually acquired all the properties, had mortgaged them all so the entire board was safe, and me and my opponents were safe to just roll our dice and cruise around and around collecting our salary. (After I succeeded at this, I deleted Monopoly from my phone and haven't played it since.)

I bought a copy of The Landlord's Game as a wedding present for a Quaker friend of mine.

My brother and I found the rules for nuclear Risk in, I think, Dragon magazine. The 10-army pieces were missiles. I think we lasted about 45 minutes, by which time we had turned most of the world into a radioactive no-go zone.

Monopoly's also better without any house rules. Play it by the rules in the box, folx.

I've never known anyone who followed the "auction off any property not bought" rule, but that might speed the game up.

My brother and I found the rules for nuclear Risk in, I think, Dragon magazine. The 10-army pieces were missiles. I think we lasted about 45 minutes, by which time we had turned most of the world into a radioactive no-go zone.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

my sibs and i played a variant which i'll call "fistfight risk". it's like regular risk, until the point where we get into an actual fistfight with each other, and then we don't play risk any more until we forget what happened the last time we played risk.

at school when we played Wallball and someone lost, they'd say "butts up" and make the loser stand up against the wall and throw the ball hard at their ass.

i hated school. i refused to do it once and the dude just threw it at my nuts instead

xp That made me laugh out loud, Kate. My brother and I fought over anything and nothing, but we were pretty good about playing games together. I did get into a fistfight with one of my good friends when I killed his D&D character. Actually, it wasn't much of a fight; I just covered up until the rest of the group pulled him off of me.