Playground games: Did anyone ever play "colored eggs"?

Question

This game might have had other names, but everyone was a family and each player was a color. Someone played the big bad wolf and would knock on the door and call out a color. That person would run and get chased by the wolf and try to make it home w/out getting caught...

There was also a "family color" where everyone would run.

Cool. I like hearing about different variations of this game.

Answer 1

HAHA! YES!

We played Colored Eggs too!

The beginning went "Knock Knock." ... "Who's there?" ... "Big Bad Wolf" ... "What do you want?" .... "Colored eggs" ... "What color?" ... and then he'd start guessing. We had the family color too.

I feel wierd - like you must have lived in my neighborhood.

The twist on ours (or - the only thing you didn't mention) was that the main time we played this game was when there was snow. We'd go to someone's house (usually mine) who had a big backyard. Then we'd scoot around and make paths all over the place in the snow and those were the only places you were allowed to run. Seems like some years we couldn't wait and we'd try to make the paths in the fall leaves too.

Then whoever the wolf caught was the new wolf.

Was this regional? I lived in a suburb of DC. Where did others who played this live?

Answer 2

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Playground games: Did anyone ever play "colored eggs"?
This game might have had other names, but everyone was a family and each player was a color. Someone played the big bad wolf and would knock on the door and call out a color. That person would run and get chased by the wolf and try to make it home w/out getting caught...

There was also a...

Answer 3

Colored Eggs Game

Answer 4

We did. We would stay on base and the wolf would say "knock knock" and we would say "who's there?" and he would say "the big bad wolf" and we would say "what do you want?" and he would say "colored eggs" and we would say "what color?" and then he would guess and if he guessed our color we would have to run all the way to our neighbors porch and back w/o getting caught by the wolf or we would become the wolf. We knew we were getting to old to play when we started picking colors like "chartuce" (sp?) so he wouldn't guess our color!!
How bout red rover red rover? remember that one?

Answer 5

Definitely, Dougal. That's not right! I've never played it myself, I prefer nice simple games like magnetic fishing and happy families is a good card game =]

Answer 6

For us it was slightly different it was called, erm........ 'whats the time Mr Wolf', the wolf would stand, face to the wall, and the rest of us would stand far away from him, (but so we could still hear him), we would say, 'whats the time Mr wolf?',he/she would say the time, we would walk the number of steps that corresponded with the time, i.e. 5 O'clock, = 5 steps, then when we were close enough, he would say in response to our question, 'dinner time' and chase us, whoever got caught would have to be the wolf, or was 'out.'

Answer 7

For me it was call "Red Light Green Light"

Answer 8

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Lol they saw you coming Father - what cheapskates putting cards all the same in!!! They must have seen me coming too cos I have played that and the same thing happened to me :-(

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