A moving numbers game

You can play this game by yourself, on the floor or on a table. You need only five playing cards---an ace, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Lay the cards out just as they are shown in the picture at the top of this...

Party Games

Everyone enjoys party games. Here are some you can play at your party. The ages are only a suggestion. Many older boys and girls still enjoy games suggested for younger children. Telephone (ages...

Guessing Games

(two to twenty players) One player thinks of a person, a place, or a thing. The other players try to find out what it is by taking turns to ask up to twenty questions. A player can only ask a...

Pencil and Paper Games

(two players) This simple game is also known as Tit-Tat-Toe and Naughts and Crosses. Draw two lines down and two lines across to make nine spaces. One player uses an X to mark spaces. The other...

Indoor or Outdoor Games

(two players) This game is played with three simple hand signs: a fist for a rock, two fingers in a V-shape for scissors, and an open hand for paper. To start, the players hide their hands behind...

Living Together

What is the first thing you must do before you can play a new game? You must learn the rules. Rules let the players know what to do. If all the players played the game their own way, the game would...

Quick hands, quick eyes

Ten quick fingers can crisscross a string into a cat's cradle in seconds. It's almost like magic. Most people play cat's cradle for fun. But some people believe that a cat's cradle has magic powers!...

The tree-path game

Come take a walk through this spooky forest. But be careful! If you choose a wrong path you'll be captured by giant spiders or eaten by crocodiles! You can play this game by yourself. It begins here...

The New Kid

by Mike Makley A few of the kids and their parents say they don't believe that the new kid should play But she's good as me, Dutch, PeeWee, or Earl, so we don't care that the new kid's a girl. by...