Seeing the post about UK school games got me thinking…What school crazes did you all have?

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1. Yo-Yos, scooters, power rangers, pogs.

2. Pogs, Gogos, yoyos, Tazos, my PE teacher’s penis, conkers, think I just missed out Pokemon cards in primary school by a year or two, as was already in senior school by then.

3. Pokemon cards, yu-gi-ohs, beyblades, tamagotchis, scoubi-dous, those weird aliens in eggs with slime stuff that people swore would grow a baby if you put two together…

4. Nintendo Game & Watch (the originals, not the new ones)

5. tamagotchi and beyblades

6. Garbage pail kids cards, football stickers, yo-yo’s

7. You could have a good game of ‘Guess the year I was born’ based on the answers so far

8. Fingering

9. Fidget Spinners.

   Those things you put your finger in and spin

10. Transformers and He-Man toys.

11. clackers and broken wrists.

12. Pogs was the big one, the entire playground would be full of circles of kids just playing pogs.

    Tamagotchis were pretty big too, though we weren’t allowed them in school

13. Game & Watch; Rubik’s Cubes; Weird-Doh; making streams of saliva eject from under your tongue; flicking drips of saliva from the bottom of your mouth with the tip of your tongue; Scalps (pulling hair by putting your palms on their forehead and pulling backwards.

14. Yo-yos were big for a good couple of years, mid 90s some time. Everyone had one doing some really decent tricks around the playground. Surprised they haven’t come back really, they are cheap and can do impressive stuff. Considering people went mad for fidget spinners and even stuff as dull as chucking a bottle in the air to make it land upright.

15. Scoobies, those collectable little dog toys that came with happy meals, pokemon cards, those aliens in eggs and double double this this

16. Marbles, played on the drains in the playground.

    A thing we called scoobidoo, but when I googled it just got results for Scooby Doo… but spelling it scoubidou got me the correct thing, but in Dutch 🤷🏻‍♀️

17. Pokémon cards are currently on an upswing and are tearing through my kids primary school, to the point that they haven’t been outright banned but are “all trades final/no backsies” to stop any arguments and make the kids think about what they are giving away.

18. Setting fires.

19. Tamagotchi, Yo-Yos (pretty sure this was a giant Coca-Cola marketing attempt at our school), skipping (where everyone tied their ropes together to make giant ropes), pokemon, gameboys

    Edit: forgot millennium babies (jelly aliens) and crazy bones!

20. Monster in my pocket

21. Micro machines, tamagotchis, pogs and tazos

22. Pokemon and goo aliens are the two I remember.

    I was in high school by the time scoobies came along.

23. Top trumps. Lunchtime football with ends but no sides… despite taking corners.

24. marbles, old maid cards, comics.

25. Boglins!

26. Crazy bones, magnets, match attax, sticker books, bey blades. I’m sure there was wrestling dog tags that were popular for a while too

27. K’nex and the knock off K’nex for a while but that was probably because of the spoon commercial

28. Adidas jackets vs. Kappa jackets.

    Like Montagues vs. Capulets.