John’s Head-Butt Game (1976)
1976 was a magical time. The country was celebrating its 200th birthday. We elected a smiling peanut farmer from Georgia to guide us after scandal rocked the White House. And those pesky child endangerment laws weren’t on the books yet. Making John’s Head-Butt Game the perfect rainy-day activity for your hyperactive little tykes. The rules are simple enough: two children try to knock each other off their respective floor discs using only their heads. While wearing wrist restraints. So the little rascals can’t use their hands to cheat. Or break their unconscious fall. As Scott points out, “Sure it will be a little noisy at first, but within five or six minutes, the home will be as quiet as a coma.”
The Game of Blanket derserves a place here. And that game I heard youse played in Tollymore, where you took a drink and then punched someone. Genius!