Comments on: RandBall special series: Stupid Games We’ve Created

By: scagmajor

scagmajor — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:37:46 +0000

My sister and I used to play tennis on the driveway with badminton rackets, using the line down the middle of the driveway as the “net”. We broke the lightbulb on the front of the garage.

By: Gen. Ambrose Burnside

Gen. Ambrose Burnside — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:31:07 +0000

I invented a game derived from cricket that apparently is now called baseball. I also invented sideburns and opposite field singles. I hear Joe Mauer has a shrine to me somewhere in his condo.

By: StraightCashHomey

StraightCashHomey — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:13:21 +0000

Balls of Steel. Just as stupid as it sounds.

Played with a particularly sturdy set of boards for bags (or “cornhole,” for the provocative crowd), opponents sit directly on the board, straddling the hole. Bags must be thrown from the seated position, and bags in the air cannot be interfered with. Game ends when one participant catches or otherwise deflects a bag, or moves from seated position.

By: The Hootie

The Hootie — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:15 +0000

College roommate and I had a variation of baseball that involved hitting a nerf basketball with your arm towards arbitrary points around the living room that were worth various hits. (Ghost runners were used, of course.)

Game was outlawed after we knocked a rather large glass of very red kool-aid onto other roommate’s homework.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:43:29 +0000

We used to play a winter game that was basically King of the Hill, but with teams. Three guys trying to reach one point on the hill, three others trying to prevent them from getting there. As an added bonus, to kick off each round, one of the players on the attacking team was required to shout something inappropriate.

We also once played the golf course from the first tee to the farthest point from the clubhouse (the 12th green). Making it more fun, to get there you have to cross a road and go around some fairly expensive houses. The winning score was 14, and one person withdrew, unable to continue, after hitting a tree with their club.

By: Joker

Joker — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:33:15 +0000

Just for all of us Kubel advocates, he just ran through a stop sign rounding third to get thrown out. FUNDAMENTALS!

By: Joker

Joker — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:22:02 +0000

The other we only got to play every couple of years. It was a mix of down hill skiing and hockey. The road next to our house would ice over on occasion, and our road was the last in the state of MN to get salted. Nice hill there to skate down with checking allowed. Loser gets a white-wash.

By: Joker

Joker — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:18:15 +0000

My brother and I invented a game called “Tennisball”. We used a small souvenir wood bat, a tennis ball, and some bases. Played just like baseball, but you were required to keep both hands on a foot and a half long bat for your swing. Lots of ghost runners involved. Sadly all my brother’s players were named Jose Canseco. All was great until my dad parked his 2 WEEK OLD truck behind us. Needless to say my brother swinging as hard as he can put a foot and a half long dent in the truck and went up to tell my dad while he was taking a crap…mainly so he couldn’t chase him and beat the tar out of him. Sadly, that game died after that.

By: Super Rookie

Super Rookie — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:11:50 +0000

I played a game in which the it was a mix of hockey, roller skating and tennis.

Basically, you had to skate down the court while bouncing a tennis ball on your racket and then try to get it past the opposing teams goalie.

We called it, “Awesome.”

Best game ever.