Growing up with just my dad and siblings didn't give us much freedom as other kids but one thing I can remember very clearly was my dad giving us the freedom to do whatever we liked inside the house and I'm still surprised how we got to understand indoor games from our class mates and played them inside the house.
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Until dad started to allow my siblings and I go out to play, my favourite games were "Police catch thief" and "Biro game". I don't know if these games are known but they were very popular game during my childhood.
Police catch thief is a paper game where we random pick wrapped names and who becomes the thief gets to catch the thief among the others... I remember looking at every participants of the game as suspects so I could catch the thief anytime I picked the police paper 😂 it was never easy but it was so much fun.
Biro game was introduced to us at home by my brother then, we make our biro fight and the first pen to hit the other pen to fall off the table or the play board, wins. I was never a pro at that game or maybe my brother was just so good with it, he would always win.
We played so many other indoor games but these are the ones that still sticks to my mind whenever I'm asked what my favourite was back then.
We later got the opportunity to go outside although on the watch on some elders in our neighbourhood, I remember how happy we were to paly with our neighbour's children. My favourite games at that period were "Ludo game" and "Suwe (Hopscotch)". I wasn't a pro in them like I am now but there were times I made lots of wins with my little knowledge of the games... It was so much fun.
The Ludo game is a two to four people game and I always preferred the four people game until I got older... Don't ask me why. Ludo game is more fun to me when every participants counts faster and make the right moves for the fun of it during the game, I had so much fun back then with it. I still play it now but it was more fun back then because I played it as a child mostly with older people 😅
Suwe game also called "Hopscotch" is my most fun outdoor childhood game. The game is all about participants hoping on one or both legs around drawn lines trying to get to an end without touching the lines or falling off. I was a pro on this game 🥰 even though I sustain a few injuries before I became good in it.
There are so many other fun childhood games I played that still sticks to my brain up till now because of how fun they were back then. I did play the skipping rope game, hide and seek, running under the rain, ten ten, fire on the mountain and so many others.
Writing this post make me miss those days so much, wish I could play those games without drawing attention from people that I'm being childish 😒 they were fun games really.
Well, I don't think I was able to point out one favourite game in this post, and that's because I had too many favourites. Maybe you could just say my favourite was the one I was a pro at... Be the judge.
Thanks for reading!!!
