What is this game?

[Kimmy]

Did you ever play that game in school where somebody stands facing the wall and you all have to try to run up and touch the wall, but if the person facing it turns around you all have to freeze and if they catch you moving you're out? WHAT'S ITS NAME?

They called it White Horse in my school but that makes no sense and it had a proper name grrr help plspls

[Monotonous]

Statues?

[David]

was called white horse when i was young too

a site on google calls it statues (http://tottenham-summerhillroad.com/streetgames.htm)

one called knock down ginger... had the complete wrong idea before i read it.

[Kyle]

we called it what's the time mr wolf :S

[Aiden]

Polo? No. cROCIDILE? no??

I know what you mean!

[lemons]

yes i thought whats the time mr wolf as well

classic

[Aiden]

we called it what's the time mr wolf :S

yeah this!

[David]

we called it what's the time mr wolf :S

isn't that different
similar but different

[lawrawrrr]

I swear we called it like hot chocolate or something, and the person at the wall was like the granny or something? I can't remember :')

[Earthquake]

Whats the time Mr. Wolf?

[Charz777]

We called it Ice Cream.

What's the time Mr. Wolf was a whole different game!

[Inseriousity.]

whats the time mr wolf.
some of you clearly crazy. they say whats the time mr wolf then they either turn round (and you sneak up to wall) or say DINNER TIME and they chase after you.

cops and robbers was better though. got to run away from the cops (or chase robbers) and take the caught ones to the wall where they escape if they're tagged by another robber.

[Kyle]

I wonder if these sorts of games still happen in schools now that kids all have phones and stuff

:(

[Samantha]

I swear we called it like hot chocolate or something, and the person at the wall was like the granny or something? I can't remember :')

We called it Chocolate Release lmao.

[Oddy]

Red and green light :P

[Kardan]

I wonder if these sorts of games still happen in schools now that kids all have phones and stuff

:(

Nope.

"Did you see that picture/video on instagram/vine/facebook/twitter?" has replaced all the playground games. At least at secondary school level. There might be some hope with primary schools.

[Aiden]

Have secondary school pupils ever played those games??

[Kardan]

I'm pretty sure in years 7/8/9 I still played playground games akin to that. Probably slightly more aggressive though.

[MKR&*42]

if they shout at the time (e.g. 2 o clock) and you move that number of steps, it's what's the time mr wolf

if not, then we called it hot chocolate like laura said

we also had another one called red letter though i dont recall what it involved... move if you have letter __ in your name or something

[Kimmy]

It's not What's The Time Mr. Wolf because I played this too. You didn't get chased in this one, just put back to the start if you were caught moving. I'm trying to make a similar Habbo game and it's driving me NUTS thinking of the name. Statues and Polo sound familiar, but I definitely called it White Horse... tho that wouldn't make sense on Habbo :(

[Inseriousity.]

doesnt make sense on the playground either.

then again I never got why it was called British Bulldog. You just running from one side of the playground to the other without getting caught in the middle.

[Charz777]

I'm pretty sure in years 7/8/9 I still played playground games akin to that. Probably slightly more aggressive though.

Yep... We got Bulldog banned at high school for the violence... We tried changing the name but those damn teachers saw right through us!

[welshcake]

Yep... We got Bulldog banned at high school for the violence... We tried changing the name but those damn teachers saw right through us!
Same! It was banned in my school too because people kept getting hurt.

[TCGEmily]

YES @Earthquake i always won though hahahah

[Matt]

I originally thought of What's the time Mr. Wolf but then Laura said Hot Chocolate and I vaguely remember playing a game called that too.

[buttons]

hot chocolate = they turn around and u have to try get to them without them seeing u move

whats the time mr wolf = u all give a time to one person! they tell the person standing at the wall, person standing at wall says a time and u have to run to the walls and back the same amount of time and whoever wins goes next

British bulldog = everyone has to run to the side and if u get caught you're out? somethin like that


what else emmmm we did red letter??

[Chris]

I think it was called statues in my school haha.

[Kimmy]

I remember playing some sort of game called Lemonade too :s

[Sho]

in primary school we used to call it 'behind the curtains' :S

[Bloop]

We call it aeiou legit

[Hannah]

We called it 'What's the Time Mr. Wolf' too.
Each time we would have to shout 'What's the time Mr. Wolf' - they'd say a time and then turn around.

Yeah... kinda makes little sense lol.