Did you and your friends or siblings ever make up your own game with your own rules? How did it work?

B Natural answer

Yes, definitely. My friends and I invented a game that was part tag and part hide-and-seek. We started by choosing last kid standing as the winner, but you could only stay safe for ten seconds at a time. If someone caught you, you had to freeze until another player touched your shoulder and gave you a restart. We also let everyone call a timeout once per round if they were tired or needed water. Then we used the porch as home base, so the game always came back to that one spot. The rules were simple, but we spent a lot of time debating them before every game. That was honestly half the fun.

Key phrases in this answer

• last kid standing — the final player still left in the game“The last kid standing got to choose the next game.”
• call a timeout — pause briefly during a game or activity“We let everyone call a timeout if they needed water.”
• home base — the safe main spot you return to in a game“We used the porch as home base.”
• make up our own game — invent a game ourselves instead of using a real one“My brother and I used to make up our own game after school.”
• house rules — special rules a group adds for one game or place“We always argued about the house rules before we started.”
• kept score with stones — tracked points by using stones as markers“We kept score with stones after every round.”