5 PLAYGROUND GAMES FROM THE 70S, 80S AND 90S Some of our best memories from our childhood years can be the things we ended up doing outside the classroom or in the street. Many of the games we played at break time or before tea can be some of our best times ever and even most fraught school antics, where friendships were made and, occasionally, broken… Here are 5 games we remember that were popular between the 70s, 80s and even in the early 1990s. Many of these games seem to have fallen out of favour in recent years, owing to a combination of changing tastes and attitudes. Kiss Chase This was one of the more popular playground games for those that were popular with the opposite sex. The premise was that boys would count to ten, girls would run away before being chased by said boys and then kissed on capture. The roles were then reversed.
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Stuck in the Mud A version of tag that sees the person that has been 'tagged' having to stand still (seen as being stuck in the mud) until they could 'freed' by another, who has crawled under their legs. A simple but effective game that would see kids running all over the place, trying to avoid being tagged, while those stuck are bellowing for someone to get on their hands and knees and under their legs. Fortune Teller There was nothing more insightful than the paper fortune teller that could reveal whether you were going to have a deep and meaningful relationship with someone in the class, or give just plain facts like 'you smell'. This form of origami saw a piece of paper folded into a square with flaps that could be operated with fingers and thumbs. There were numbers and colours and counting out the letters in the word or by manipulating the fortune teller to the number chosen, would reveal what fate lay in store for you.
