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Jul 2023
2:55pm, 24 Jul 2023
107,114 posts
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Hanneke
My mother just turned in her grave 
We were told to read books or play with the lego.
We would also be taken out for wet walks!
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Jul 2023
3:12pm, 24 Jul 2023
80,475 posts
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Diogenes
Indoor footgolf. Played with a small ball, no larger than a tennis ball*. Tee off in one corner of the house and get your ball to the 'hole' in another distant part of the floor. Play the course in reverse for a second hole. Work out a par. Skilled players use deflections of walls and furniture to get through doors, but look out for hazards such as "underneath the cooker" or "in the dog." Lost balls can be retrieved at the cost of a penalty stroke.
*balled up socks can be used, but lack the bounciness preferred by top players, even those with a high lycra content. N.B. too much bounciness can be as bad as too little.
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Jul 2023
4:02pm, 24 Jul 2023
1,667 posts
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Silvershadow
I love the foot golf and saucepan ping pong ball ideas. I used my crochet foam blocking mats to make stepping stones. Get from a to b without stepping on the carpet (or climbing on the furniture
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Jul 2023
4:20pm, 24 Jul 2023
29,404 posts
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fetcheveryone
The classic "floor is lava" game
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Jul 2023
4:24pm, 24 Jul 2023
37,703 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Visit Chester Zoo
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Jul 2023
4:36pm, 24 Jul 2023
107,125 posts
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Hanneke
Ah, yes, we did that too: Ouwehands Dierenpark. They had a dolphin show, indoors. Highly popular but these days considered cruel.
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Jul 2023
5:16pm, 24 Jul 2023
29,405 posts
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fetcheveryone
Sounds like a day out, rather than a game though
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Jul 2023
5:41pm, 24 Jul 2023
14,496 posts
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HowFar?
I spent many happy hours playing book cricket. Assign each letter to an event, e.g. a dot ball, a score or an appeal for a type of out.
Pick a random line and number of letters, e.g. 17th letter on the 7th row.
Turn to any page and check what the letter is.
You can have the appeal as an out automatically or repeat the process as above and only have the appeal turn into an out of the letter you land on is a vowel.
I played many a test match between England and West Indies that way (In the terrifying but thrilling Garner, Roberts, Holding, Marshall era)
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Jul 2023
7:31am, 25 Jul 2023
80,485 posts
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Diogenes
Before the days of football manager I used to simulate a football season using dice. I'd have a league of 12 teams, generally from London and surrounds and play a season and a cup competition. There were two different coloured die, red for the home team and white for the away. I'd roll them to get the score. If it came up as something like a 3 and a 1 I'd take that as the score. More unlikely scores such as a 6 and a 4 would generally get adjusted to be 3-2. Double 6 was a 0-0. I'd let the occasional 6-1 through but generally these would get reduced to something like 5-0, 6-5 to 1-0. In theory the whole season's competition should be quite close, but it was strange how some team's would have good or bad seasons, or go on good/bad runs.
I played a similar Fantasy F1 games. This involved pulling pieces of paper out of bowls. One would have the driver's name on, the other their outcome in the race (i.e. 1st, 4th, crashed, retired, out of the points)...
I was an only child.
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Jul 2023
7:37am, 25 Jul 2023
80,486 posts
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Diogenes
Oh, and I played cricket matches with dice too using the Howzat rules
1=1 run
2=2 runs
3=3
4=4
5=Howzat
6=6
After a howzat appeal it was something along these lines (I can't remember exactly)
1= bowled
2= caught
3= LBW
4= Stumped
5= not out
6= run out
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