Top 10 Best Old-School Outdoor Games

One person counts, the rest hide. The simplest and most fun game there is.

Run, tag and get away. There are dozens of variations, from freeze tag to chain tag.

Throw a ball against the curb and score points when it bounces back. A typical Dutch street game.

One team has to catch the others and put them in jail, but prisoners can be freed. Hours of fun.

Hop through the squares on one leg and pick up your stone. Drawn with sidewalk chalk.

In groups of three or on your own, with rhymes to go with it. A classic on every schoolyard.

Roll marbles into a little hole to win someone else's. Once a real craze.

Two kids hold the elastic while the third jumps. The elastic keeps going higher.

Sneak forward while the other person isn't looking, but freeze when they turn around. Exciting and funny.

Throw a knife or stick into the ground and conquer pieces of land. An old game you often saw on the street.