What Non-Official Games Did You Play As A Child?

We were playing lots of that kind of games.. and the game you have described(7 stone) was quite famous among us.. There are lots of different games .. and among them we were also playing color catching game... in this game one player give one color name and other players have to touch that same color before that player (who tells color name) caught them after giving color name..

Hi Dear thesids, I am also from India.As you mentioned this was a popular game amongst the children then, which possibly today's children don't even know it! I recollect one episode of 'Tarak Mehta Ka Ulta Chashma' where they have tried to show all these childhood games, which are not officially recorded but were popular, in few of their episodes to impart knowledge about thesedesi games to this generation! If I start writing about this game, believe in me, a full length volume of a book can be written on the subject! In short I think I already played the game what you have described, this is called 'Pittu' in northern parts of India and it is known as 'Lagori' in central part of India. Other games which I would liketo mention are Marbles which is known as 'Kanche' in local language, has many variations varying from region to region of the country. 'Gulli Danda' a game played with sticks , where one has to hit a small specially made stick, which was supposed to be flicked fro the ground to give a big shot on to it. It was some hing like self bowling and batting! Here too we had various forms to this game. Spinning of top is a enjoyment, but using these Tops for playing games is really something different and we used to play the Top game, where some times some tops used to get broken in half. Kite flying and having competition for cutting the line, which typically known as 'Pench' was popular one and luckily it is still popular, in northern and central part of India. Simple ball games like 'King Kong","Gadha Gadhi" and 'Navrang" etc were real products of innovative brains then. During rainy season when we used to have soft soil we used to get a a thin rod of iron to fix it by hitting action into the soft soil. Taking this property of soil and the piercing ability of the rod the game was played with lot of variation The above mentioned are very few of them from my games list, which I think might have given you a fairly good idea about my involvement in these desi games then. Thanks dear friend you have made my day by taking me to my those old and Golden days. I am feeling nostalgic now! Thanks !

u made me remember all those golden golden days... yes i too played it and we called it Laghori..though its unofficial...our school had well made blocks of wood which were very good and advanced as compared to our domestic pieces of tiles or anything like that there were so many games apart from this like marbles, gilli danda, making an old tube of bicycle with a stick (these were played only by boys..and the naughty boys were expert in rolling the tyres) but we enjoyed watching them...one more favouriet game of childhood was hide and seek ...how i can i forget that... thanx for reminding those days... cheers...tc !!!

an interesting game as well as in my country we are looking for bricks and some people play the battalion but here not like in the army battalion but we hold a lottery who lost his watch and found us all one by one in the place we were hiding and where the bricks are in scattered -where while we ran the guard must arrange bricks bricks had to stand up and we had besembunyi .. LOL really fun but there are up crying because he kept losing in this game, what you see?