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Apr 2020
4:43pm, 3 Apr 2020
26,115 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Owzthat on Ebay...plenty available.
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Apr 2020
4:44pm, 3 Apr 2020
23,707 posts
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fetcheveryone
Pothunter - I remember playing that at a friends house 
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Apr 2020
4:51pm, 3 Apr 2020
3,140 posts
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Goofee
I think I had a cheap copy of "Owzthat", as mine was styled "Howzat" and came in a plastic tube with no coloured lettering.
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Apr 2020
4:52pm, 3 Apr 2020
3,141 posts
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Goofee
On the "dice" I mean, not the plastic tube!
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Apr 2020
5:09pm, 3 Apr 2020
5,452 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
I took nurdiness up a further level by working out a game with one standard dice rolled multiple times to give options that closely mimicked the real chances in a game. Different decision trees were used for defensive, attacking and tail end batsmen.
Whiled away many an hour on car journeys. I played a fair chunk of a season once, all I remember is that Sussex were really good and John Barclay was Bradmanesque.
Once I got a ZX80 I write it up as a Basic program that would produce a scorecard. Didn't work so well in the back of the car though!
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Apr 2020
5:14pm, 3 Apr 2020
3,142 posts
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Goofee
Armchair Cricket was a game I enjoyed. I forget the precise details now but basically bowling and batting 'side' each held six cards, each card played by the bowler had to be countered by the batsman, but best of all you had proper ball by ball scoresheets to complete!
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Apr 2020
5:15pm, 3 Apr 2020
3,143 posts
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Goofee
That sounds excellent 57.5!
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Apr 2020
5:56pm, 3 Apr 2020
31,818 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Yes, agreed - rules please, 57.5! Sounds like a lockdown game if ever there was one!
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Apr 2020
6:35pm, 3 Apr 2020
1,561 posts
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flyingfinn
I spent hours in the 70s playing both Owzthat and Subbuteo Cricket. On poor days during school holidays I would frequently take over the dining room table for the duration of the day to play full blown test matches with the latter. I developed a way of succesfully playing it solo to negate needing to find some else willing to spend all day playing it. Owzthat went everywhere with me at one stage and I used it to pass many a long car journey. We had a camper and when travelling I had access to a table which helped make it feasible.
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Apr 2020
7:13pm, 3 Apr 2020
3,144 posts
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Goofee
I used to play solo Subbuteo cricket too, I had a sheet of hardboard to which the pitch would adhere when smoothed onto the rough side, and the England, Australia and West Indies teams. My England side were far more successful than the real life version, for some reason!
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