TRADITIONAL GAMES

PIGEON FLIES! I remember how my comrades used to tease me at our game of 'Pigeon flies!' All the children gather round a table and the leader calls out 'Pigeon flies! Hen flies! Crow flies! Bee flies!' and so on; and at each call we were supposed to raise our fingers. Sometimes, however, he would call out: 'Dog flies! Fox flies!' or some other like impossibility, to catch us. If any one raised a finger, he was made to pay a forfeit. Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side. — A. Santos-Dumont, 'My Air-Ships,' New York, The Century Company, 1904 Game rules discovered incidentally on a page called Great Aviation Quotes.

Hangman

Chess

Snakes and Ladders

Checkers/Draughts

Chinese Checkers

Backgammon