Ten on Tuesday

Ten Favorite Games from my Childhood
This one takes me way back, which is of course the idea.

1. Hide and seek. Does anyone play this any more? I can hardly remember a month when I didn't play it, starting at age five.
   
2. Jump rope. Same question. We mostly played a game called donuts, don't ask me why, which involved various feats of jumping one-footed, eyes shut, fast and slow.
   
3. Life, the board game. My friend Nelie and I played at her house at least once a week. Several times I ended up with six or more kids. I'm glad this was not a sign of things to come.
   
4. Go Fish, the first card game I ever learned, and still a good one.
   
5. Chinese jump rope. The "rope" was essentially a very long rubber band that went around two players' ankles, and a third player between them had to tangle her feet in it and then extract them in various ways.
   
6. Qubic, three-dimensional tic-tac-toe.
   
7. Sorry, Trouble, Aggravation, Parcheesi. I've probably forgotten a few of its names.
   
8. Canasta. My grandmother taught me her favorite version when I was about nine.
   
9. Tantalizer. This game was in the back of my fifth-grade classroom, and I only got to play it once or twice. It involved doing tasks like putting small rings onto hooks — but you had to do it all while looking in a mirror. I've never seen it since.
   
10. Ghost. My favorite for long car rides, but I've played it in other places as well.