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  1. The game implies a romantic preference for boys. The game generally assumes a hetero-romantic attraction and thus is mostly played by only girls. Collector’s Name: Kyland Narcisse

    • Jacks
    • Red Rover
    • Blind Man’S Bluff
    • Tetherball
    • Kickball
    • Hopscotch
    • Marbles
    • Mumblety-Peg
    • Capture The Flag
    • The Farmer in The Dell

    Jacks are at least as old as ancient Greece, except at that time the jacks and ball were tiny sheep bones or rocks. It was still the same idea: toss and catch the jacks in a prescribed fashion—only, for most of history, it was called Knucklebones.

    One theory is that Red Rover, with its distinctive chant, was named after an 1828 steamboat that took passengers back and forth across the Hatchie River. Another suggests it was a taunt early English children directed at Vikinginvaders.

    Blind Man’s Bluff became especially popular in Tudor England, even among adults. The game was even said to be a favorite in the court of Henry VIII.

    Depending whom you ask, tetherball is either an offshoot of the romantic Maypole, or it evolved from a game played by the 9th century Tatarsthat was a lot like tetherball but used pieces of vanquished enemies as the ball.

    Kickball was inventedin Cincinnati in 1917. It was also called Kick-Baseball and Soccer-Base. Its accessibility as an organized sport for even small and uncoordinated children was quickly recognized. By the early 1920s, P.E. teachers all over America had begun using kickball as a standard practice in gym class.

    Some sources state that hopscotch began in Roman-ruled England. The courses were 100 feet long and were used by Roman soldiers to build agility while wearing full armor. The scotch in hopscotch attached itself later. It’s an English variation of scratch, in that players were hopping over scratches made on the ground.

    Marbles are ancient and have been found in pharaohs’ tombsand in Aztec ruins. There is no one way to play marbles—every schoolyard has its own rules. The classic version of marble-playing we know today came into existence in the early part of the 20th century, when mass production made it possible for children to buy whole bags of beautiful glass m...

    Depending on whom you ask, this game either originated in 17th century England or 19th century America. Mark Twain mentioned it as one of Tom Sawyer’s favorite activities, and the image of young boys tossing pocketknives at their feet and then removing them from the dirt with their teeth (making them mumbly) feels distinctly Twain-ian.

    Though no one has traced the precise beginning of capture the flag, it is most likely a child’s re-creation of a battlefield. In many military cultures, the battle is not won until you are in possession of your opponent’s actual flag.

    This game, where children form a circle and in turn pick farmers' wives, children, dogs, servants and cheese, probably originated in Germany in the 1820s. It was a courtship game played by adults originally, then became popularized in America by German immigrants. A dell, by the way, is a small wooded valley.

  2. 2 days ago · The lemonade stand is a widely used and recognized symbol of capitalism and in particular entrepreneurship. The selling of lemonade on the streets of New York can be traced back to when a New York youngster sold it to thirsty street car riders over 130 years ago.

  3. Across the country, kids took up the pitcher—sometimes most charitably: In 1910, the Indianapolis News lauded three young girls whose lemonade sales “realized 85 cents for the babies of...

  4. Lemonade is a game with two players, who clap their hands together and chant. Each player slaps her right hand against the other’s upturned left and vice versa, and then pushes both palms against the other’s palms (a la “patty-cake”), and then claps her hands together three times.

  5. Lemonade Crunchy Ice isn’t as old as many of the other popular nursery rhymes and clapping songs, as it’s been around since the 1980s only. How To Play Lemonade, Crunchy Ice Game. A fairly simple rhyme, it can be either used as a hand game with others or sung out loud.

  6. The game? None other than 'Lemonade Stand', a basic economics simulation which came to life in 1973, created by Bob Jamison from the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium. The version we're focusing on, however, was ported to the Apple II platform in February 1979 by Charlie Kellner.

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