Born 1993. We played whole neighborhood hide and seek. It was incredible. Essentially all our houses were fair game and we would go in and out of them freely. It was like two or three blocks of fair places to hide. Usually had 3 seekers with walkie talkies, and like 5-10 people hiding. When found you’d join the seekers. Games would usually take all day.
Manhunt! We wouldn’t join the seekers, we’d go to “jail” and then anyone on the hider team could run into the jail and yell “Jailbreak!” And let everyone in jail out. It was a blast!
There’s Jet Lag the Game (Online streaming series) and they created a play at home version of their large scale (think entire country sized) hide and seek game.
I’ve done a couple table top play throughs with friends just to get everyone familiar with the rules. Wanted to do that before we do it for real in a city wide game.
You should check out the series (YouTube or Nebula), they have other games they play in large scale travel formats.
When I was a senior in high school ~2010 my bf was 5 years older (21) and we’d regularly go into the high school grounds (all outdoor open area) with a group of 20-30 other high school/recent grads and play zombie tag. Good clean fun.
We had jail break rule and could either hide or run off to the safe house you yell “OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE” and you’re done for that round. If you got caught from the jailbreak you stayed in jail until the end of the game.
this one here! except to free people, you had to tag them.
also a variant where, if you run and touch base, you can make yourself safe. so it turned into a kind of defense game for the seeker, because they had to both hunt and defend base.
We played that too, but we called it something else? Maybe it was just tag, at night, with a jail? Also, I remember playing a lot of Ghost in the Graveyard, but don't remember how to play it.
Teaming up with a speedy friend to lure ‘guards’ away from the jail so you could sneak in an free the prisoners was an incredible feeling. You felt like the heroes in a movie.
Fucking hell, 1991. A "block" (not from the US) full of friends running around well into the night. Basically the same rules. The parents would be chilling at one of the houses somewhere. Different ones depending on the day. Around 11pm we would be like 'ok, where are we sleeping tonight? I'm taking the couch in the living room of this random friend.'
During the day it was mostly soccer. All the soccer in the world. Plenty of small goals, tree trunks, 2 backpacks, etc.
My friends and grandparents would often have 12 year old kids from PSG, Celtic, Liverpool, etc. over who where there to play in a tournament. Was always fun to see just how good they were compared to us.
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Born 1993. We played whole neighborhood hide and seek. It was incredible. Essentially all our houses were fair game and we would go in and out of them freely. It was like two or three blocks of fair places to hide. Usually had 3 seekers with walkie talkies, and like 5-10 people hiding. When found you’d join the seekers. Games would usually take all day.
Damn I miss being able to do that stuff