What games did you play in study hall?

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In High School we played endless games ofhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_football. When we were younger we playedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(game). I remember that I was supposed to marry Donnie Wahlberg, live in a condo, have three children and drive a Vespa.

Games I played included unskilled chess and unsubtle flirting. :)

https://www.google.ca/search?q=cootie+catchers&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=zlq&tbo=u&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=To71UI-OH8GQ2AWQvoC4Cg&ved=0CDEQsAQ&biw=1348&bih=660 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_book https://www.google.ca/search?q=slam+books&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Anq&tbo=u&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=l471UM7kE63y2gXhsoHgBg&ved=0CD0QsAQ&biw=1348&bih=660 http://www.instructables.com/id/Finger-Hockey-1/?ALLSTEPS (but in my day, that was carving or erasing enough away to get ahttps://www.google.ca/search?q=pink+pearl+eraser&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=iCW&tbo=u&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=xI_1UKe0CuSi2wXLl4GIDw&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1348&bih=660 to fit on the end of a pencil to make the hockey stick (damn kids these days can buy them http://www.shindigz.com/Party/Hockey-Stick-Pencil.cfm), and the net was your fingers making the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns flat on the edge of the table and the puck was a tinfoil ball from someone's lunch.) And then there'shttp://www.wikihow.com/Play-3-Coin-Hockey

What do you call that game where you hold your thumb and forefinger in a circle, and then if you get someone unsuspecting to look at your hand, you get to punch them in the arm?

At my day camp we always had an hour or so of downtime. We sat on the floor played so much http://www.pagat.com/patience/spit.html that my back was constantly aching but damnit I was not going to give up!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pencil%20Pop&defid=3573180.

http://www.gamegardens.com/gardens/view_game.wm?gameid=13The concept of the game was simple: 1) Take a piece of paper and fold it an half 2) Each person sketches a number of little tank icons on his side 3) To play your turn, draw a dot on your side of the paper 4) Fold the paper an half again so that the two drawn sides are touching 5) Rub the other side of the dot you drew so that it transfers to your enemy's side 6) If the dot touches a unit on your enemy's side, it is destroyed 7) Person to destroy all of enemy's units wins.(though we called it Tank War, I think). Note that it requires pencils, not pens. Anyway, that page describes it exactly as I remember it.

More on the football simulation... Once you had your grid with your play results, each person used a sheet of notebook paper and play by play wrote their play number (offense or defense), one play per line. Then you checked the grid and noted the results of the play. Some plays had variable results. For example, a screen pass against a blitz may result in 5, 15, or 24 yards. The way we resolved that was the offensive player wrote down a number 1-3, the defensive player wrote down a modifier (+1,-1, 0)and then you did the math to determine if result 1, 2 or 3 applied. Field goals we also resolved on the semi-random number idea. So a 25 yard field goal might be good on a result of 2-10 while a 50 yard field goal was only good on 9-10. When you got to the bottom of your sheet of notebook paper (roughly 25 plays) that was the end of the quarter. Timeouts let you reuse a line. There were maybe 5 or 6 of us that were into it, and we each constantly were tinkering with our grids trying to maximize the realism of the simulation. This was 80-82 (8th and 9th grade), so had any of us had the foresight to take our rudimentary BASIC skills and computerize the game who knows what where we could have taken it.