What Do You Call The Game Where You Knock On Someone's Door And Run Away?

Alvin Flummux wrote:Knock and nash.

The less successful follow up to "Crosby, Stills and Nash"

I've updated the thread with a poll and added what I think is basically every suggestion received so far so get voting and lets settle this!

You can pick multiple options as some people have recognised multiple names for the game.

It's known as Knock Down Ginger here.

Did you lot ever play Hot Rice?

Saint of Killers wrote:Did you lot ever play Hot Rice?

Is that like sticky biscuit?

Did you play that one with Uncle Ben?

Moggy wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:Did you lot ever play Hot Rice?

Is that like sticky biscuit?

FFS I Googled that.

Jenuall wrote:Did you play that one with Uncle Ben?

Start by selecting one person to be 'on' - all stand in a circle with legs apart and feet against adjacent player. Bounce ball in middle, it exits between one players legs - he's 'on'. First player has ball, counts to an agreed number to allow other players to scatter, and the game proper starts.

The first player 'on' can run with the ball. He chases down a suitable quarry and throws the ball at them aiming to hit them with it thereby making them also 'on'.

With two or more players 'on', the 'on' players are not allowed to run with the ball. A stationary 'on' player with the ball passes to a moving 'on' player who tries to hit other players himself or passes to another 'on' player.

Gradually all the players are picked off and become 'on'. The last person 'on' is the first person 'on' in the next game.

Hits to the head or back of the hands don't count.

Players who are not yet 'on' can pick up a loose ball between two knuckles and punch it away, but if touched by an 'on' player become 'on' themselves.

Has to be played in an agreed defined space, players going outside it are out of the game.

'on'

The variation we played with was you could "pinball" the ball away from you and at another player when in the circle at the start.

Yodel

Oh it was blates called Knock-a-door run in Wallasey.

Rubix wrote:
Moggy wrote:Knock Out Ginger

Yes Moggy

Yep, Moggy knows where it's at!

captain red dog wrote:
Rubix wrote:
Moggy wrote:Knock Out Ginger

Yes Moggy

Yep, Moggy knows where it's at!

Bristol united 8-)

I never played this and no idea what it was called so I voted for Death to all Ginger Bastards.

That was one of the better joke options to vote for, well done!

I think we called it "knock and ginger", or maybe "knock-a-ginger".

This thread has served to raise awareness of the deep-rooted gingerism that plagues our society.

The question is, will Jenuall use his platform to promote more violence and hatred against our soulless friends or will he finally answer the call for justice?

Maybe ginger was used for the term ginger. As in the verb ginger. It makes sense.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:This thread has served to raise awareness of the deep-rooted gingerism that plagues our society.

The question is, will Jenuall use his platform to promote more violence and hatred against our soulless friends or will he finally answer the call for justice?

Pedz wrote:Maybe ginger was used for the term ginger. As in the verb ginger. It makes sense.

I wasn't aware of its use as a verb before, but somehow I can't see 8 year olds coming up with the term "to impart piquancy or spirit to" the premise of knocking on someone's door :lol:

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It's 'knock-a-door run' and I refuse to accept any alternatives!

Knock and run, like any sane person. :capnscotty:

I don't think I ever played it though - surely one of the worst 'games' ever devised.

https://www.ourdialects.uk/maps/prank/

Confirmation that this ginger nonsense is a haughty southerner thing

I think paedogeddon has put a stop to it in the last decade or two. It was big in the 80s though.

What Do You Call The Game Where You Knock On Someone's Door And Run Away?

What Do You Call The Game Where You Knock On Someone's Door And Run Away?

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