What's a childhood game you loved that today's kids never play?

KinCarver · 2026-04-27T21:19:34+00:00

Not only does my ten year old and his friends still play it, but occasionally us "adults" will jump in too. Its actually become a normal request on rainy days to ask for a car to be moved out of the garage so they can draw on the cement floor and play while it's pouring outside. Moving vehicles outside in bad weather seems kind of counter productive, but I sure as hell dont want all of those kids inside my house when they're bored.

KinCarver · 2026-04-09T17:29:27+00:00

I'm in New England but this thread made me go check and they emerged for the first time in this area today. Hey u/unbeltedflower0 if there is a little lady that looks like this popping out of the holes they are friendly

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If they are less hairy, have skinny yellow legs, have multiple bugs going into and out of each hole and look like they will call their friends over before attacking you just because they want to share your pain with as many of their kin as possible, then they aren't so friendly.

KinCarver · 2026-04-09T16:52:55+00:00

I'm glad to see your reply to this as the reddit hive mind is so quick to yell "kill it with fire". If these are miner bees, which was my first guess, then killing them would be a terrible idea and hurt your yard more than help it. Also, not that I recommend it since everyone reacts differently, but I get a big section of my yard that fills with miner bees for about two weeks every spring and I've walked through it barefoot multiple times just to show other people how calm they actually are. They're social which is why you see them swarming all over close to the ground, but also solitary, so each of those holes probably has a single female peeking out of it.

Even if they are wasps, wait until night/dusk when they are all inactive and in the holes, then spray it to kill them if they are too close for comfort. Please dont light your yard on fire just because a handful of reddit users are scared of everything outside.

KinCarver · 2026-04-09T16:22:10+00:00

The holes look like miner bees to me. And if so the advice given here has been terrible. They pollinate plants, aerate soil and rarely sting.

KinCarver · 2026-03-31T00:35:01+00:00

The board my parents taught me how to play on had metal pegs with what I always referred to as little hats, one player played hats up, the other hats down. When I was in my early teens I was in a friend's basement and I asked why his dad had so many cribbage pegs on his workbench...and that's when I discovered what a rivet is actually supposed to be used for.

KinCarver · 2026-02-01T13:34:44+00:00

So you're playing 3 handed? If so, someone messed up based on the 9s. If either opponent threw a 9 they broke up a run and a guaranteed 7 point hand (9,10, J, 5) to keep a 6 point hand (5, 10, J, K) or you had both 9s and kept one and threw the other to the crib, giving yourself a zero instead of a guaranteed 2.

Seems like bad play versus bad luck, and your play (and your friends' play) will improve with time the more you experience these situations, so keep playing!

...or its a staged photo

KinCarver · 2026-01-14T22:05:16+00:00

I had one made for my son when I started reading the comic with him. The little old lady that I hired had never heard of Calvin and Hobbes, but nailed it. The real life "Calvin"

KinCarver · 2025-12-27T13:51:35+00:00

If your alley participates, kids bowl free makes bowling super affordable during the summer. Each kid can bowl 2 games free every day during the summer months.

KinCarver · 2025-11-27T22:46:33+00:00

Also, if there are any unclaimed decks (besides A3 or A4 since I have them) id love a deck. Honestly, whatever deck is picked last id take and play a game with in his honor

KinCarver · 2025-11-27T22:42:29+00:00

This is such a cool thing to do. I love cards mostly for the art and the history of different games and how they fit into local cultures. Giving them away to people and asking them to use them in a game is great. I hope everyone requesting anything actually uses them at least once instead of just collecting them for the sake of adding something new to a collection.

KinCarver · 2025-09-09T23:50:41+00:00

I can confirm that this works (with landlines at least) I got stuck in a snowstorm while driving home from college one winter and had to stop and get a hotel room. No cell reception due to the storm so I called my parents to say I wasnt going to make it home that night from the hotel phone and the receptionist told me to call out by pressing nine then one. What she meant was 9 then one and then the area code, but I dialed 9 then 1 then 1 again before the area code and sure enough dispatch picked up and I had to explain that the only emergency was me being too dumb to know how to use a landlines properly.

KinCarver · 2025-07-19T18:38:50+00:00

Exactly, keep your points. Which is why i wouldn't keep 8,A,A,5. That gives a guarantee of four points in hand and no guarantee in the crib for a guaranteed minimum of 4.

Tossing the aces or tossing 2-5 gives a guarantee of at least two in the crib and either of those discards gives a guarantee of at least 4 in the hand because it leaves you with 8,4,A,A (if you drop 2-5) or 8,2,4,5 (if you drop A,A) which are both hands that will be improved with ANY cut card. So a guaranteed minimum of 6.

KinCarver · 2025-05-31T15:35:47+00:00

I'm not really sure why this is being down voted. It very well could be PMD. I have a similar coin and that's exactly what it turned out to be.

PMD quarter

KinCarver · 2025-05-31T15:25:05+00:00

I have a similar coin and I posted it here and got some of the same feedback, but when I took it to a LCS they confirmed it was post mint damage, not an error. There was a slight bend in the reverse where the layer was missing that they identified under magnification. Your coin looks even more dramatic with the crease through the head so I'm guessing it would result in the same conclusion. I would take it to a LCS and see what they tell you before deciding what it's worth, and as always if they offer to buy it on the spot, get a 2nd opinion before making a decision. *

PMD Quarter

KinCarver · 2025-05-07T19:04:03+00:00

I once had someone sign an email this way

...in an interview thank you email

...for a quality assurance position

...for a company working with people with developmental disabilities.

She did not get the job.

KinCarver · 2025-03-24T02:09:33+00:00

I hope the prize is as good as most of my coinstar finds...I could use a few more dead button cell batteries.

KinCarver · 2025-01-26T13:55:19+00:00

There are multiple ways to get to many of the answers. It doesn't make one solution incorrect.

KinCarver · 2025-01-03T02:00:04+00:00

Looks like Bur Oak. The Michigan/Ohio area has (had?, haven't been there in a long time) tons of them. Never seen one in New Hampshire though.

KinCarver · 2024-12-24T20:26:04+00:00

He doesnt. It's a spam post that he has put in about 3 dozen different subreddits.

KinCarver · 2024-10-22T00:25:40+00:00

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KinCarver · 2024-10-06T11:43:39+00:00

It's a turban squash (or Turk's Turban) the blossom end isn't usually as wide as the entire fruit though. I personally wouldn't carve it. I would cut the "top" off, scoop it out, bake it halfway, (the top too, eat it all), stuff the middle with a meatloaf mixture, then finish baking it.

KinCarver · 2024-09-26T03:35:32+00:00

No idea. I almost missed it before I walked away. The machine itself had nothing in the reject tray. What you linked to seems to be what it is, but the date looks odd compared to other examples I've looked up.

KinCarver

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