I don’t think I’ve seen anyone who didn’t play games as a child. That is to say that childhood isn’t complete without games. It keeps children engaged and active.
Thinking back to my childhood days and remembering all the fun games I played, I realised that the paper-and-pen games were my favourite.
The Americans call this Tic-tac-toe while the British call it Noughts and Crosses. Then, we called it X and O. It was one of the easiest games to play as I could easily play it anywhere with anyone. In no time, one could draw the three rows and three columns required to play the game, and it wouldn’t take up much space on the paper. I played it with my siblings at home and my friends at school. I was so good at playing it that it was either I won or no one else did.
The game is played by two players, one playing with an X and the other playing with an O, and they take turns alternately. The goal of the game is to have all Xs or all Os in a straight line, whether vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The first to achieve this wins the game. So, the players keep putting down an X or an O till the nine boxes are completed.
I don’t think we ever had a name for this game. Or, maybe I simply do not remember. It is quite similar to Xs and Os, but unlike Xs and Os which doesn’t take up a lot of space on paper, this one does.
It requires an entire page to draw the vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines which all meet at the middle of each line. It’s basically a big asterisk with small rectangular boxes at the beginning and end of each line and also at the point where all the lines meet. Two players are required to play the game. They are given three very small pieces of paper (no bigger than the rectangular boxes) each that have been differentiated in some way to tell one player’s from the other. Quite similar to Xs and Os, the goal is for a player to have all his pieces of paper in a straight line, whether vertically, horizontally, or diagonally as both players take their turn one after the other. However, unlike it, after placing all three pieces of paper on different boxes, the papers are moved. The rule for movement is that it should be to a box next to where it was placed.
I played this game with my siblings at home, my friends in the compound where I lived, and my friends at school, but I wasn’t as good at it as I was at Xs and Os. When playing with my elder brother, I’d most often lose to him.
I also don’t quite know what we called this game. It was quite popular. I played it at school more than I did the previous game, but not as much as I did the first game, and it’s completely different from them. It was more of a word game. It had to do with vocabulary.
The game had no limits as regards the number of players. All the players needed were sheets of paper to draw columns and rows which would contain the names of people, places, animals, foods, and things that start with each letter of the alphabet. Turns were taken one after the other and whoever’s turn it was would call a letter that everyone would write words starting with (the name of a person, place, animal, food, thing). It would also be up to that player to shout “stop!” for everyone to drop their pens. There’d be a row allocated to totalling scores too. While each word is to get ten marks, those written by more than one person would score only five marks, and words not given would get nothing. At the end of the game, the player with the highest score wins.
This game was so much fun to play. Sometimes, due to pressure, one would forget common words that start with the given letter. That was super annoying, but generally it was always fun.
It’s funny that I still play these games in uni. However, it’s only once in a while when my friends and I hang out in one of our houses. It’s usually the second and third game though. And it’s always accompanied by lots of laughter and fooling around like friends do.
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That is to say that childhood isn’t complete without games. It keeps children engaged and activeSome really did not get the chance to play at all... Azin at all, so they had carry over in playing
But I'll speak for myself, I'LL BEAT YOU TO ANY OF THOSE GAMES 😎 I so much enjoy them and I have lots of experience in playing too right from childhood
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X and O? I don't think I ever saw my peers play this game. Quite a process to play and win and of course, I trust you would always win! 😄
This is an interesting game that pulls you in. You enjoyed your childhood. Nice post! !PIZZA 🙂
Yeah, it’s really interesting. And, I did enjoy my childhood — immensely. Thanks for reading.
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Some children were not allowed to play games, but one time or another I think they’d have played some kind of game.
Thanks for reading! And, yes, it’s perfectly fine.
Wow, your childhood was so fun, I once played those games but my childhood was more practical. Nice content keep it up.
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