Many of the better colonial games are explained in the book Colonial Games, Pastimes and Diversions, for the Genteel and Commoner. Which one are you? Below we have a variety of popular colonial amusements, some good and some just god-awful.
It involves writing oblique questions and all-purpose answers on separate cards, and passing them out randomly. You can make them as silly, dark, or esoteric as your company desires. We all had marbles, but not many of us knew what we were supposed to do with them. There are many ways to play marbles, but the most popular marble game in Revolutionary days was Ring Taw.
Most cultures bowl in some way, shape or form. You know, some version of throwing a rolly-slidey thing with the intention of knocking down a group of standy things. It was remarkably similar to modern bowling, complete with beer and abuse heaped on competitors that starts out fun and becomes hostile by the end of the night.
This sometimes applied to their party games, too. To play, hold five knuckles in your hand. Throw them up, turn your hand over quickly and catch as many as you can on the back of your hand. Eventually, metal jacks were produced and replaced the sheep bones. This is a simple game for two players to move their pieces diagonally capturing opponents by jumping them. When a piece reaches the opposite end of the board, it becomes a Queen or King. This is designated by placing a captured piece on top of it.
The Queen or King may move and capture forward or backward. Play continues until one player can no longer move. This is a bowling game that probably originated in continental Europe during the Middle Ages. The game of ninepins was brought to America by early Dutch colonists. A variety of pins, balls, and rules of play developed as bowling games evolved into the games we know today as skittles, duckpins, law bowls, bocce, and tenpins. Ninepins can be played with 2 or more players.
The object of the game is to knock down as many of the wooden pins as possible with each roll of the ball. The first player to score exactly 31 points is the winner. This whirligig is fashioned from a Spanish Dollar, also known as the piece of eight, a silver coin widely used during the 18th and early 19th centuries. There are many variations of this toy, including the buzz saw. Buzz saws were usually wood, instead of metal, and made a buzzing sound as you played.
In far-flung cultures and throughout history, buzzers have been made by and for children from all sorts of materials and in a variety of shapes and sizes. To learn more, make your own and give it a try! Place the loop formed at each end of the doubled string over two fingers of each hand and slide the button to the middle of the string.
With tension on the string, move your hands in a circular motion so that the button spins away from you and the string becomes twisted along its entire length.
When the string is completely wound, simultaneously stop the circular motion and pull your hands apart gently, in a continuous motion. The button will start to spin back toward you. Bring your hands toward each other just a bit to allow the string to rewind, then apart again each time the string is fully wound, in a gentle and rhythmic motion, slowing or quickening the speed of the whirligig by adjusting the timing and strength of your pull.
Explore This Park. Players used a board, often the top of a bar. They slid pennies along the length of the board, trying to get them to stop inside a defined target area to score points. Illustration of Gov. William Bradford ruining Christmas by forbidding colonial New England games. It more resembled soccer or European football mixed with rugby, with boys kicking the ball to each other in a form of keep-away that could turn quite violent.
The Puritans loathed football. Englishman Philippe Stubbs , something of a Puritan scold, pointed out the dangers of football in his pamphlet, The Anatomie of Abuses. In it, he attacked a wide range of games, pastimes and other supposed vices. He wrote:. Now who is so grosly blinde that seeth not that these aforesaid exercises not only withdraw us from godliness and virtue, but also haile and allure us to wickednesse and sin?
For as concerning football playing I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendlie kinde of fyghte than a play or recreation—a bloody and murthering practice than a felowly sport or pastime.
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