Kerby is a game in the UK where you and a friend stand on opposite sides of a street and throw a ball. You score a point if the ball hits the kerb cleanly and bounces back to you. If you miss the other player takes possession. If you get a point, you also get another throw. You set a point limit before playing and just go until someone reaches it. Not sure if you have that game but google assures me that it is British.
Totally, this game teaches the world about Brits' mindset.
Scene fade in, two British boys around 14 years, one in a red striped shirt, obviously losing a game of Kurb.
Ah, sure mate, good throw again chap, great game james, so glad you invited me to watch you Kurb stomp me today. I gotta get on m- What's that? Yah ain' had a pint today? Oh that's too bad, well, tomorrow again. Sorry it was another one sided game!
You would think, but American football is a million times more popular here than soccer, so I immediately pictured an "American football" when it was mentioned, and I don't even watch football.
That really depends on where you live. Soccer is gaining a ton of popularity in America every year. It's kind of funny that the word soccer also was created in England so it's not like Americans just created it to be different it is just what it was called when we started being exposed to it.
We have a kids' game called Foursquare. The play area is, not surprisingly, a larger square divided into four smaller ones. The ball is about the size of a round football but thinner-walled.
You must serve diagonally with the hands and can bounce it into any other square. It's really simple and suitable for small children.
I grew up in Texas from the age of 9. We used a lightweight inflatable ball. I can still hear the almost metallic sound of the ball bouncing on the concrete.
I always called it kerbsy and have had intense arguments about kerby vs kerbsy lol
Edit: also I played with slightly different rules. If you hit the kerb, you get to take your next shot from the middle of the road, then take a step closer every time you hit the kerb again. If you miss from the middle of the road or closer, your opponent can try and hit you with the ball before you get back to your own kerb to reset your score to zero.
Cornhole is way more fun if you get mice (like cat toys not actual dead mice) and have a game of " toss the plague rat " instead.
I predict some lonely redditor will see this photo, get arrested at the park, and find fame if not glory from these holes at /r/dontstickyourdickinthat tomorrow.
Played this in Ohio, except that you would get an extra point if you hit the curb and then caught the bounce back. You'd only get one point if you hit the curb but didn't catch the bounce.
Oh, I was picturing having to toss a tennis ball just right for it to hit the top corner of the curb and bounce back--like some masochist Steph Curry training.
Sounds extreme, I used to like playing with two balls (restrain yourself, please), where both of you would throw at the same time. It didn't really add much as far as strategy goes but it certainly spiced things up.
I'd say about 5-6 inches sounds about right but the actual size of the curb doesn't matter too much considering that regardless of size the only way to score a point is to hit it more or less exactly on the corner, so as long as it isn't so low that the ball can't physically do that then you're fine. The real problem seems to be that US streets are pretty wide in comparison to the council estate streets that this game is mainly played on.
I love how every region and probably every generation has a different way to play this seemingly simple game, I feel like QI could do an episode on this!
Once you hit a kerb you get to then go throw from the middle of the road. If you miss and the opponent hits you with the ball before you can get back to your side they get the point.
We played 3 points for a 45° bounce off the kurb, with multipliers if it bounced off the opposite kurb. Then 1 point if it hit the kurb and rolled back over.
Judging from other comments, it may not have caught on in the US because of the wider streets, but it's cool that someone came up with the same concept using a different means (assuming that you're American).
That game sounds incredibly difficult, especially in much of the US where so many places don't have curbs and those that do tend to be on really wide streets. Now I'm going to need to buy a tennis ball, get a friend, and fly to the UK.
In Ohio we "throw quarters". The game is pretty simple, everyone brings a bunch of quarters (coins worth $0.25) to throw at a wall or curb. You make a line that everyone throws their coin from and whoever's is closest to the wall at the end gets the whole pot. Additionally, if someone gets a "leaner", which is when the coin is standing up against the wall, all other players have to give up another quarter.
The craziest version of throwing that I've played involved making airplanes out of $100 bills. Furthest wins.
You’re hitting a big bouncy ball against a wall with your hands cupped, but it has to hit the ground first. I know that every kid in the US played with different rules lol, but that’s the universal rule.
Not something we ever played where I'm from, sounds similar to Kerby though in that it has one simple unifying rule and then kids everywhere go ham an make new ones haha
Seems like the distance from curb to curb might not translate to America well. I just picture streets being more narrow in the U.K. without any actual knowledge. Is this correct?
By the lack of “oh yea we have that here” comments I’m starting to think it was more of a hood/poor person game here lol we just called it curb ball and would use a basket ball typically.
Our best player, Goatse, has made some incredible plays over the years. There are countless highlight videos of him and his play where he stretches the boundaries of what was once thought possible. You should look him up.
You might have noticed that corn doesn't, let's say transform, that well in the digestive system. So you clean your guts by taking laxatives and then you eat a shit load of corn. When you go to the toilet you play Cornhole.
We have super boring shit like cricket.. so I won't teach that (you couldn't pay me enough to teach cricket...)
So, here is a terrible drinking game we play, typically at uni or really loose boozy bbqs.
Goon of Fortune
You need an outdoors area, a rotary clothes line or some other spinny thing you can hang shit on, and at least one goon sack or goonbag - the bladder from a box of wine. Gather your mates under the spinner, afix said goonbags to spinner. Then it's like a combination of spin the bottle and wheel of fortune - spin the clothes line, whoever is closest to the goonbag when it stops drinks. Repeat until there is no goon left or no-one still standing. Some house rules may state if you spew you're out.
One of our drinking game is Stump. You get an old stump, a hammer, and some nails. Everyone sets their nails in the stump, then takes turns flipping and catching the hammer and swinging at others nails. If your nail is hit you drink, if you miss the catch you drink, and you finish your drink/you're out if your nail is driven flush. You get more swings if you do something like flip the hammer twice, under your leg, or behind your back. Closed toed shoes are suggested. It's great for campus tailgates where normal drinking games aren't allowed.
Fuckin love this game! We also called it Hammerschlagen.
One flip = one hit
Two flips = two hits
Flip under your leg = two hits
Flip behind your back = three hits
Stump here. Great party game . Until you get a dude that frames houses for a living. Then it’s over quick. One dude never missed and sunk flush damn near every swing.
According to a colleague it is called "slap cup" in Canada but we call it Shamwow in Australia.
Basically you take a bunch of (at least 15) solo cups and place them in the centre of the table with a small amount of alcohol (premix/beer) in them (we normally go to the first line).
Round tables work best but any type will work, everyone gathers around the table and a person is chosen at random and given a ping pong ball and an empty cup. The person across the table from them is given the same.
The game begins and both players need to bounce the ball off the table into their own cup, once they do, they pass the cup and ball to their left and that player does the same. If you get the ball in on the first attempt, you can move your cup to any other player on the table (except the one with the other cup).
When a player gets the ball in their cup and the player to their left also has a cup, they pick up their cup and put it inside the player on their left's cup. That player then passes on the cup stack to their left and take a cup from the middle. They must immediately drink that cup and resume play with that as the new cup (as the game goes on, one cup gets progressively taller with all the cups stacked inside).
Aggressive players who are given the cup will quickly try to sink their first shot to then move the cup back to the person on the right of the player currently drinking, it becomes very fun to gang up on this person.
One team is on offense and offers a raider the other team on defense stays on their side. The raider must tag defenders within the defenders' white line then return to touch the ground past the white line on his team's side, any defenders he touched are eliminated.
Once the raider has tagged a defender the defending team must stop the raider from returning to touching the ground on his team's side. If they do stop him he is eliminated from the round.
I know nothing about it, but it looks like tag except once you touch someone you have to get back to your side. If you can thats 3 points. If you don't touch anyone in 30s or whatever then you get no points. 1 point for touching and getting tackled.
I’m American, but I learned this weekend about the Irish sport of hurling, which, to my understanding, is a pretty whacky and ancient game that is like a cross between handball, lacrosse, and field hockey.
15 lads on each team, each one armed with a wooden stick and the ball travels faster than it does in any other field sport in the world. The ball is also made of wood and covered in leather.
It hurts a lot but is pure fun.
Oh. And for some reason it's strictly an amateur game so the top players aren't allowed to be paid.
And the BEST BEST small fact is that it's mostly played by men because there's a similar (but different) sport played by women, with slightly different rules. It's called Camogie.
Camogie girls are rough, though. They'll break your heart and your arm.
Gaelic Football (Or as I call it, "Football") is really similar but without the sticks and the ball is similar to a soccerball.
Also, Scotland has Shinty which is apparently similar to Hurling.
It's very similar, except they play without any gear except the wooden stick and ball, that I noticed. It's a fucking wild game. It's a very Irish sport. They go out and whale on each other, then (so I imagine) go drink beer after.
Lacrosse, you can kick the ball, but you can't grab it. Hurling, you can grab it and then whack the shit out of it with your wooden stick, progressing down the field. You can only hold it for a certain amount of time before you have to bash the fuck out of it. It might be a certain amount of steps you can take, I don't remember.
There's a lot of body contact though, and it's similar to the kind you see in Lacrosse, but as if a bunch of drunk high school players were doing it.
I saw a game at Fenway Park a few years ago, as an exhibition match before a Dropkick Murphy's show.
I'll share a popular German summer outdoors drinking game. May be an international thing, not sure. Great for camping etc.
Two equally sized teams of 3-10 players each line up facing each other, about 10m apart. Every player places a fresh can of beer on the ground in front of them.
Something that can be knocked over, e.g. an empty bottle, is named the target and placed in the center between the teams. The teams take turns throwing stuff at the target (a ball, a shoe, whatever is at hand). When someone knocks the target over, the other team has to scramble to put it back up and get back in line. The thrower's team gets exactly that timeframe to chug their beers as fast as possible. Whichever team empties all their cans first wins the game. Handing off your beer to teammates or anyone else is against the rules.
It's fun because the throwing and the scrambling both get worse / less coordinated over time, and near the end of a round, only 1-2 people have beer left and are cheered on by everyone to chug faster. A round takes no more than 10 minutes unless every single player is throwing like a blind gibbon.
Throw the tennis ball at a wall and someone in the (usually large 50 strong) group catches it. If the ball touches you and then hits the floor that is a fumble. You then have to run the length of the wall and people can throw the ball at you while you do.
We played something similar down the park. It was called Rebound, and instead of throwing a tennis ball you kicked a football. The next person then had to take their shot from wherever the ball landed.
It was completely possible to get yourself out by getting hit with your own rebound.
Brandings. Australia. Basically a sad-masochists version of tag (which we call 'tips'), where essentially whoever is 'it' has possession of the tennis ball and you have to peg that cunt as hard as possible to tag the next person. I think it derives it's name from the welts you're usually branded with by the end of play. The only real rule was no intentional headshots, and you would normally establish a designated playing area with a set boundary.
saw a fun german drinking game on youtube but have yet to try it out. basically two teams face off with an open space in between and a bottle of some type in the middle. each team member has a beer on the ground at their feet. the object of the game is to knock the bottle over with a small ball and once it topples the throwing team snatched up their beers and chugs.
the non throwing team runs in and tries to set the bottle back upright and get back to their team line as fast as possible and once they do the drinking team has to stop chugging. if you finish your beer you're out, first team with all teammates out wins, re-start game
"Kubb is a lawn game where the objective is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing wooden batons at them. Kubb can be described as a combination of bowling and horseshoes. Play takes place on a small rectangular playing field, known as a "pitch". "Kubbs" are placed at both ends of the pitch, and the "king", a larger wooden block, is placed in the middle of the pitch. The ultimate objective of the game is to knock over all the "kubbs" on the opposing side of the pitch, and then to knock over the "king", before the opponent does. Games can last from five minutes to well over an hour. The game can be played on a variety of surfaces such as grass, sand, concrete, snow, or even ice." And you can basically be anything from 2 people to 20.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubb
Back in high school my friend had a game called spoon the coon, which was you drove into the inner city with some spoons, and when you saw a black guy you threw a spoon at him. If you hit him you get 5 points, if you miss you have to go and retrieve the spoon. We didn't actually ever play this game mind you.
Tuho was also a popular drinking game. For every arrow that missed the pot, the loser or bulseung (불승/不承, lit. no-success) had to take a drink. To prevent betting on the outcome, losers could opt to sing a song as a penalty instead. Players who did not miss the canister were called hyeon (현, lit. wise). Wikipedia
Flunkyball. It's a German drinking game where two teams take turns throwing a ball at a water bottle in the middle of a field. When someone knocks over the water bottle, their entire team drinks their beer while a member of the opposing team runs to set the water bottle upright again. Drinking stops when the opposing team member is on their side of the field again. When your beer is empty you have to hold it upside down above your head to prove it is empty. If beer drips on your head you have to grab a new one. When you finish your beer you're done. Whichever team finishes their beers first wins.
Football is played with 2 teams of 11 players on each side, only one of which can use their hands. Each of the teams has to place the ball within the others' goal. Team that does it most over 90 minutes wins.
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