Games you have invented

[alan partridge]

What games have you invented in your time? Let's hear 'em...

Me and a friend's contribution would be the timeless Puck-pence

A game so simple yet compulsive and at times, beautiful.

You need : 1 canteen table with a raised edge around the side and 3 coins

The original game used a pound 'puck' and two 20p 'pence'. The original format of the game was abandoned though* in favour of 'Swedish Puck Pence' which uses a 5p 'puck' and 2p 'pences'

The two players toss a coin to elect who 'serves' and then spin their 'pences'.

The winner is the player whose 'pence' stays spinning longer.

The puck is propelled across the table by sliding in turns, to try and knock the 'pence' out of its spin, thus hastening victory. If no contact is made by either player, the last coin to be spinning is the winner.

You win a point, you get to serve.

First to 10 wins.

No puck pence player ever delays his shot as a cheating tactic. This is strictly against the gentleman's code of Puck Pence.

*Original Puck Pence was abandoned due to too many pound coins being lost under the drinks machine and an unfortunate incident where a dinner lady was hit in the mouth by an 'errant' puck

 

[Dave the OAP]

table footy played with two 2 pee pieces and 1one 1 pee piece

each player has a 2 p piece and the 1 pee is the ball. You each have a book at either end of the table which is the goal and you each have a "flick" in turn the 2 p at the 1 pee and get it towards the goal.

Hours of endless tedium

 

[Titanic]

two 2 pee pieces and 1one 1 pee piece

 

[Soul Finger]

Dump football.

A friend and I were both gagging for a turn out and found two cubicles side by side. the aim of the game is simple; each splash is a goal and no chopping is allowed.

Problem is, if you get a proper Yule Log, although satisfying, doesn't win you games. On the other hand, a succession of nuggets and you're unbeatable.

Toilet football.

In my old flat the bathroom was at the end of the hall with the toliet right at the back. That gave us a good ten yards of kicking space.

Mini football lands in shitter; 1 point, ball rebounds and lands in sink; half a point.

Washing machine football.

Invented one drunken evening at a friend's house. Sponge ball chipped through machine door; 1 point. His cat as 'keeper added to the excitement.

Soup bowl tennis.

Clue's in the name.

 

[alan partridge]

Dump football.

A friend and I were both gagging for a turn out and found two cubicles side by side. the aim of the game is simple; each splash is a goal and no chopping is allowed.

Problem is, if you get a proper Yule Log, although satisfying, doesn't win you games. On the other hand, a succession of nuggets and you're unbeatable.

The beautiful game

 

[Easy 10]

The Train Game.

My office window overlooks the railway line just south of Haywards Heath station. All you have to do is forcast the number of train carriages which go past within a 30 minute window.

Everyone gives their forcast, and whoever is the closest, wins. The variation in trains is dizzying - some are in multiples of 3, some in 4's. Sometimes you get a monstrous 16 carriages in one go, or even a rogue freight engine will go past, scoring as 1. Crossovers also provide all kinds of excitement - you need eyes like a chameleon to count those babys as they fly past in opposite directions. The average total seems to be about 60 - 70 carriages within a 30 minute window, but it can vary hugely.

I can hardly begin to describe the tension as the last few seconds of the clock ticks down to the 30th minute, and you hear a faint rumbling of wheels when you know you just need a 4 to bring your forcast up. Fabulous entertainment, and mostly played over email with me giving (very honest) updates. Marvellous.

 

[alan partridge]

There's some great stuff here.


Another great thing about Puck Pence was that there was no need whatsoever for a ref. Even when the coins spin their last spin quite close together its always obvious which one lasted the longest.

ahhh and the beauty of having your 'pence' nudged by the 'puck' giving you only a few seconds to take one final shot....knocking your opponents 'pence' clean off the table as your own shudders to its own, victorious, stop.
THAT'S Puck Pence...

 

[Adams score 0]

I have this idea.\
Each player has a stick,and you have to knock balls with the stick and get them in holes.I thought about playing it on a table.
I might give the balls points and paint them different colours.

 

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Me and my friends play milk race a lot

 

[Easy 10]

It'll never catch on, Adams.

 

[Juan Albion]

A game very similar to ultimate frisbee. My version was played more like football with two goals and a goalie, with the frisbee having to be passed and not carried or dribbled in any way.

Apparently ultimate frisbee was invented a few months earlier in the States. As I was only nine at the time, I certainly didn't steal the idea from them.

Oh, and the Eddie Stobart game. Nearly crashed the car when I heard it being discussed on the radio. Seems others had the same idea for that as well. I couldn't believe others were as sad as I was for doing that. I expect my scoring system was unique, however. Haven't spotted any Eddies over here yet.

 

[Wozza]

How about a nice mind game...

When you're on an escalator[1] look out for pretty girls going up/coming down on the other side.

When you see one you'd like to **** say "stick" (er, to yourself, preferably).

Once you've stuck, that's it - you can't change your mind if a better looking girl comes along behind her.

If you hold out for some top totty but leave it too late, you have to go with the very last female on the escalator no matter what she looks like.

Of course it's all in your head - you're not actually going to **** these girls (it would too much effort catching up with them anyway), but it passes the time on the boring commute.

[1] Or another defined space or situation of your choosing.

 

[Adams score 0]

My mind would not get pass the f*** it stage.

 

[Adams score 0]

sorry about the naughty word,thought it would not come up

 

[Simster]

How about a nice mind game...

When you're on an escalator[1] look out for pretty girls going up/coming down on the other side.

When you see one you'd like to **** say "stick" (er, to yourself, preferably).

Once you've stuck, that's it - you can't change your mind if a better looking girl comes along behind her.

If you hold out for some top totty but leave it too late, you have to go with the very last female on the escalator no matter what she looks like.

Of course it's all in your head - you're not actually going to **** these girls (it would too much effort catching up with them anyway), but it passes the time on the boring commute.

[1] Or another defined space or situation of your choosing.

That sounds like a quality game. I'll give it a whirl, cheers.


My game is a two player game.

You need a squidgy ball, a sofa and two players.

Player A bounces the squidgy ball off the wall and attempts to header the ball onto the back cushions of the sofa being defended by player B who must remain seated at all times.

10 attempts at goal for each player constitutes a chucka (as in polo). A drawn chucka is decided by a sudden death "head off" and the match is the best of 3 chuckas.

Marvellous scenes.

 

[Soul Finger]

That sounds like a quality game. I'll give it a whirl, cheers.


My game is a two player game.

You need a squidgy ball, a sofa and two players.

Player A bounces the squidgy ball off the wall and attempts to header the ball onto the back cushions of the sofa being defended by player B who must remain seated at all times.

10 attempts at goal for each player constitutes a chucka (as in polo). A drawn chucka is decided by a sudden death "head off" and the match is the best of 3 chuckas.

Marvellous scenes.

Yes!! That is a quality game.

Varied it a bit by the 'keeper diving as he throws the ball up.

What a top thread btw

 

[Set of Tracksuits]

I played a game that was frighteningly similar to Wozza's when I was waiting for the 239 bus service from London Victoria station to my flat in Battersea.

Bascially, I would stand at the bus stop and rate the passing women out of ten, before deciding when to stick. An added element to the game was to bet against myself that I wouldn't see more than two 9-out-of-10-or-above women that evening.

Sounds very, very odd now, but travelling to work and back every day in London can do some strange things to your mind.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Where do I begin?

NSC Football Sim
NSC Decathlon
NSC Catchphrase
NSC Ryder Cup
NSC Question of Sport
NSC FA Cup
NSC Saint & Greavsie
NSC Vic 20
NSC Spectrum Tennis

And many more!

 

[lost in london]

How about a nice mind game...

When you're on an escalator[1] look out for pretty girls going up/coming down on the other side.

When you see one you'd like to **** say "stick" (er, to yourself, preferably).

Once you've stuck, that's it - you can't change your mind if a better looking girl comes along behind her.

If you hold out for some top totty but leave it too late, you have to go with the very last female on the escalator no matter what she looks like.

Of course it's all in your head - you're not actually going to **** these girls (it would too much effort catching up with them anyway), but it passes the time on the boring commute.

[1] Or another defined space or situation of your choosing.

I play this game when I'm on a tube train looking out of the window onto the platform. The tension as you look at a bird who is OK, but you choose not to take is actually quite invigorating as you wait for some other beauty to come past the window. It is soul destroying when you realise there are no more people and you will have to take the last person - the 45 year old 15 stone 4'6 hairy Spanish woman.

Other great games: flicking tennis balls with your foot to a mate who has to deflect it into a bin.

Indoor cricket with a cork and a hockey stick, awesome, corks 'spin' quite a lot. Excessive pace on the bowl/throw is not allowed - there are strict gentlemen's rules.

Throwing a ball between people to see who can get it the closest to the ceiling without hitting the ceiling - hours of family fun.

Appartment golf, but for this you need an appartment that your friend is just about to gut and redecorate - not so easy to find these days.

 

[Soul Finger]

Office Olympics.

Throwing various objects into various containers. Luzzing bits of paper into a basketball net etc etc.

Lounge Subbuteo.

Endeavouring to head the tiny ball into the tiny goal from about ten yards, over a sofa. Very difficult and often results in a little red dent in your forehead.