#My Favorite Games: 5 L-O-N-D-O-N London Statue
By Sheali
@Sheali (7461)
India
March 30, 2019 3:13am CST
A person (curator) is supposed to turn his/her back, stand at a distance and say ‘L-O-N-D-O-N London Statue’; while everyone else has to run towards him and be a statue as soon as he turns towards them. 
He then comes to the statues and tries to make them laugh with silly jokes or facial expressions. He can’t touch or tickle the statues. 
The aim of the curator is to make any person laugh so that, that person becomes the curator. The statues aim is not to laugh. 
The statues are free to change their posture when the curator is busy making some other statue laugh; but will become the next curator if he/she is caught changing posture by the present curator.
If the curator can’t make anyone laugh till a certain time period, he has to start again. Generally that never happened as in childhood any silly joke or facial expression made us laugh and that was the challenge NOT TO LAUGH. 
The first curator was decided by an UNlucky draw. 
The curator used to go to every statue one by one to make them laugh. He used to think who could be an easy target and used to go to that statue first so that he could win in no time. No one wanted to be the curator and we loved to give different and creative poses as if the poses would win us an award.
I think this statue game has different rules in different regions.
Have you ever played this game?
Picture from google images.
He then comes to the statues and tries to make them laugh with silly jokes or facial expressions. He can’t touch or tickle the statues.
The aim of the curator is to make any person laugh so that, that person becomes the curator. The statues aim is not to laugh.
The statues are free to change their posture when the curator is busy making some other statue laugh; but will become the next curator if he/she is caught changing posture by the present curator.
If the curator can’t make anyone laugh till a certain time period, he has to start again. Generally that never happened as in childhood any silly joke or facial expression made us laugh and that was the challenge NOT TO LAUGH.
The first curator was decided by an UNlucky draw. The curator used to go to every statue one by one to make them laugh. He used to think who could be an easy target and used to go to that statue first so that he could win in no time. No one wanted to be the curator and we loved to give different and creative poses as if the poses would win us an award.
I think this statue game has different rules in different regions.
Have you ever played this game?
Picture from google images.9 people like this
9 responses
@Sheali (7461)
• India
31 Mar 19
@LadyDuck Actually changing posture was not compulsory.. It was done just to challenge the curator even more..
We changed poses when the curator was busy making another statue laugh and his back was towards us.. When he used to turn at us and see us in different posture he got mad as he missed to see us moving
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@arunima25 (91984)
• Bangalore, India
30 Mar 19
We played it a lot during our childhood and I am glad it is one of those few games that still survives in this era of technology. I find children still enjoy it a lot.
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@arunima25 (91984)
• Bangalore, India
31 Mar 19
@Sheali I find that they don't play any of those traditional games not much now. And we are playing them now as a part of therapy sessions.
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@Sheali (7461)
• India
1 Apr 19
@arunima25 May be.. but such games definitely help to relieve stress
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@Sheali (7461)
• India
31 Mar 19
@arunima25 I think children play all the outdoor games which we used to play..
The only thing is that, they don't play on a daily basis, unlike us
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@allknowing (151532)
• India
30 Mar 19
I have talked about it here as a response to a user here. We played this game when we were kids.
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@allknowing (151532)
• India
30 Mar 19
@Sheali I commented here
As kids, we played the game Red Rover all the time during the summer months and at school. Red rover came about in the 19th-century and kids in the...
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@Sheali (7461)
• India
31 Mar 19
@allknowing O Yaa.. even I tesponded there..
That was also a fun game.. There are so many fun games... My God..
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
18 Apr 19
@Sheali This made me smile because it brought back memories of playing this in Primary School only it was called something else and was played a bit differently. When the person turned around, they wouldn't walk around to try make anyone laugh. The rules were just being still when person turned around. I can't remember the name. I want to say "Freeze" but I don't think that's it. There was something similar to that called Musical Statues. Had to be still while the music stopped.
And another one I remember was Mr Wolf. Someone would stand at the front with back turned. Everyone would say "What's the time Mr Wolf?" Whatever number was said by the person at the front, was how many steps the people had to take towards him. Then I think eventually "Mr Wolf" had to run and try to catch someone to switch places.
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@Sheali (7461)
• India
21 Apr 19
@VivaLaDani13 That also sounds interesting...
The game is played differently in different places.. but was so much fun
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@yoalldudes (35035)
• Philippines
30 Mar 19
So is it most likely that the other players will laugh?
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@Sheali (7461)
• India
30 Mar 19
Yes.. The first one who laughs is the looser and so the next curator..
The aim is not not laugh and not become the curator
and also while changing pose, not get noticed by the curator.. Changing pose is not important but it was fun to tease the curator when he would realize later that someone changed his/her pose and he couldn't see them move..
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