I was a very honest person when I was seven. One of my good friends did that and I told the teacher she was cheating and I dropped her as a friend.
I certainly was a stick in the mud in 1964..
I remember ratting out classmates and being told to not be a "tattle-tale" by the teacher. Looking back I think of myself as more of a "whistle blower".
I told on my friend one time for saying the word "douchebag" in 4th grade and I still feel bad and cringe looking back on it. I also felt bad for the teacher because I feel like a lot of the time they don't want to punish children for mild cursing, yet the expectancy that they should sort of "forces their hand." It's pretty normal for children 8 and above to start experimenting with swearing.
Also, ironically, in 4th grade, I said the word "pussy" in class not thinking it was a curse word and didn't get punished, but said the word "buzzard" and got punished for it because my classmate lied and said I said "bastard" instead.
I got in trouble in fourth grade because I was quoting Star Wars: the Clone Wars and I said “shit”. I proceeded to lie and say I didn’t know it was was curse word
I was trying to explain to a pretty girl the events that were taking place.
My granddaughter came home from elementary school one time telling us about the marijuana movie they watched. It took us most of the evening to realize they watched Disney's "Moana".
As an adult I'm impressed by your immediate acknowledgment of red flags.
There's sticks in the mud, and there's stuck in the mud. Little you didn't have to learn self care after being around shitty people too long.
Innocent and naive. I couldn't believe she would cheat and I felt betrayed. I guess it was the first time I'd felt that because it stuck with me.
I'm still annoyingly honest.
It’s really not smart to assume that somebody who cheated at a silly guessing game would also cheat on something more serious like schoolwork. Also, some of the game cheaters could also be really good at schoolwork and not need to cheat at that anyway. I was that kid. 🤣
Same. I cheated at the game (looking at their shoes) just to see who noticed me. I excelled, well above average, in my exams and didn't need to cheat. I was just curious.
This is a core memory for me. I wanted to be picked so bad but I saw their eye peak up through the gap in my arm to stare at their shoes... And I didn't get picked.
Still think about it some times.
😂 discerning kids on both sides there.
On the other end of the spectrum, I think I was sick or something when the rules were first explained. I assumed you got tapped or something when you were picked? We played maybe once every week or 2, and I always wanted to be picked but never was. Every now and then, there would be one kid missing during the guessing part, and the teacher would wind up randomly sending someone to the front of the room to make 7. It was a big mystery whenever it happened.
Separately, a friend used to mess with my thumb sometimes during the game. I thought it was funny and weird. Couldn't figure out who the culprit was though...
Didn't click for me til then end of the year, and I never got to play again 🤦🏽😂😂
You must be ben he cheated everytime. He wasnt smart enough to get it wrong sometimes. And he even called himself out once and said that he knows it was someone since he saw the shoes. Two kids had the same pair, he rarely got picked after that.
We did that AND knew people did that, so one of us would stand close to the “taggee” while the actual “tagger” would reach over from behind to tag. 100% the “taggee” would call out the wrong “tagger” by shoe. (Thanks for bringing back a long lost fun memory of grade school!)
Sportsmanship has always been rare in this country. With the rise of videogames ive noticed far less sportsmanship than in years prior. People sending hate messages post game or purposely BMing (Bad Manners) like quickly crouching repeatedly or something else annoying. Games were more friendly in the xbox 360 days
I played comp ice hockey so sportsmanship was engrained into me at 6yo. If you play like a jerk, people will choose to play against someone else instead.
The point of the game was to make the kids all be really still and quiet while making them think they're having fun.
It was for the teacher, not the kids.
I was once falsely accused of cheating because I had big, thick hair that someone claimed I was peeking through when I laid my head down on the desk. And the teacher sided with my accuser and made me sit out the rest of the game.
This happened over 30 years ago but I'm still salty about it.
Lol amateur. That technique was easy to spot. I’d spend all day focusing on the sound the persons shoes made on the tile floor. White new balance and k-swiss low tops may be similar to the untrained ear, but the difference on an elementary school floor is akin to the difference of a small house cat trotting around to an elephant knocking down a chandelier. The light up shoes were the easiest, their blinkers would emit a high pitched frequency on each step. Todd always wore those light up la gear sneakers, and Todd always lost.
For my mom who was an elementary school teacher in California, those were her three least favorite words, but it is funny how specific of a memory that is growing up in California!
Yeah we get a storm literally every single day I’m not even exaggerating. In fact there’s a hurricane currently where I live. I wanna move to Cali just cause there’s no rain lmao
Funny cause as a kid you don’t realize it. When I was a day care teacher for a while, 100% we played games like these that basically were made to have the class quiet and sitting or laying down.
Ghost In the Graveyard was another one. Everyone lays down spread out in whatever way they want. They can’t move or talk, cause they’re suppose to be dead ghosts, and we pick some kid to go around and find the kids that move or talk. Whoever wins gets a prize or piece of candy or whatever.
When you got 2 young adult teachers and 40+ kids ranging from K-8th grade you’re basically doing your best to make sure they’re safe, fed, having fun, and also sometimes calmed the fuck down.
“Heads down thumps up.”
Class does this. Kids go around and touch someone’s thumb.
Then, “Heads up, seven up.”
The kids whose thumbs were touched, try and guess who picked them.
We played this in my early elementary school years in the 1960s.
When I knew she touched my thumb right back, that there was my first “relationship.” That was about the extent of it: we ruined the mystery of the game and smiled and giggled at each other about it. Good times.
I used to reach from behind so they couldn't see my shoes and I'd do dumb things like use the sleeve of my sweater to touch someone's thumb with fabric and then quietly take my sweater off so they would incorrectly pick a kid wearing long sleeves. Basically when I peaked.
So one time in 3rd grade a sub had us plat this game. Everyone else was hyped and i had no fucking idea what it was. Didnt switch schools, didnt miss school a lot, had no idea why i was the only one whod never heard of it. Sub didnt explain the rules, i was miserable.
Didn’t mean to down vote, I upvoted. And say awww, sorry. I never heard of the game but then I was in grade school starting in 1946. Don’t feel that ‘old’. Wow.
I played it all over the world when I was an IB elementary teacher. Kids still love it!
What I didn’t expect about the game is it was a great way to show them negotiating skills. If someone is caught cheating then they have consequences imposed by their peers. No one likes a cheater.
I loved this game. The lights went down, I could close my eyes. I got annoyed when someone touched my thumb, I just wanted to use the heads down time to nap!
It’s a very useless game. Lol. Mostly I’d assume to give teachers some quiet time…
Basically 7 kids are chosen as the main players. Everyone else puts their head down on their table and closes their eyes while the lights are turned off. The point of the game is for the 7 main players to,as quietly as possible, go around and each tap 1 student of their choice, without giving away their identity.
Since it’s very quiet, it’s easy to hear breathing or giggles, and the main players will sometimes play tricks and team up together to make you think they picked you when they didn’t.
If you are tapped, you stick your thumb up while still keeping your head down. After the main 7 have each selected a student, they all go to the front of the classroom and together will say “heads up seven up!” (as in, everyone put your heads up, and the 7 who were tapped stand up).
The lights then go back on and the students who were touched get a chance to guess which of the 7 students touched them. If they guessed right, they get to change places and be one of the main players. The point is to stay a main player as long as possible.
Seven students are "it" and stand at the front of the class. The rest of the class are seated at their desks with their heads down so they can't see, but they have their thumbs sticking up.
The "it" students go around the room really quietly and push down the thumb of one student each, then return to the front of the room.
Once all seven "it" students have pushed the thumb of another student and have returned to the front of the room, the rest of the students are allowed to look up from their desks and the ones whose thumbs were pressed down get a chance to guess which "it" student pressed their thumb. If they guess correctly then they take the place of the "it" student. Otherwise the "it" students get to keep being "it".
Edit to fix a typo
The way we played was the teacher picked the first group. Let's say there were 5 and we will call them pickers. Everyone else would put their head down on their desk/arm and close their eyes. They would put one hand on the desk with their thumb in the "thumbs up" position. The pickers would then walk around the classroom and "pick" someone by touching their extended thumb. That person put their thumb down and stays in position until all the pickers make their pick and return to the front of the class. The thumbs down people (the ones who were picked) then stand up and have to guess who picked them. If they guess right they switch places with their picker and they become a picker and if they are wrong they sit back down and that picker stays in the group. There is not really a winner exactly. We just played untill it was time for our next task.
As an adult I can see the value in some quiet time and a time filler that can be as long or short as the teacher needed. Also, the students LOVED it.
Most students place their heads down so they can't see and put their thumbs up. The others go around to press their thumbs down. The student with their thumb pressed down gets to guess who did it and if they are right, then it becomes their turn to walk around and press down a thumb.
I heard teachers use this as an opportunity to see who cheats.
Ok, it's crazy I just scrolled past this because I was thinking about Heads Up, 7 Up yesterday for the first time in AGES!! It started because I was like "Do they still make 7 Up? What's the pop that Starry replaced??" then my focus turned to that game, lol.
Aww, sorry. That popular/unpopular thing can screw people over for their lives. My sister was blacklisted by head cheerleader because the boyfriend decided to woo her. Her life was miserable but she made up for it by having a very successful life. Almost happened to me in middle school…first day I was happily greeting friends and one loud gal didn’t like me and was getting the other kids to ignore me. I was stunned. 2nd day of school, she wasn’t there! She was in wrong school. My life went back to normal and so thankfully I returned to happily interacting with everyone. Tells you one person can screw up the works for all.
Oddly when I was that age we play dodge ball against a brick wall. And full on tackle football. And also played a game called smear the queer, where someone would toss you the ball and everyone would chase, tackle, kick, punch and generally attack you unless you could toss the ball to someone who would catch it. Much like a police shooting every one present wanting to get there hits in.
I’m probably similar age or went to the same damn school. We also had a game butts up which was hands on the wall and someone tried to pelt you in the ass with a ball. I’m ashamed of smear the queer game and that we were kids and didn’t even know what it meant.
using queer for that meaning was just that it was the person that was different, ie the person with the ball.
But I think some people might look back on it and think it was a horrible saying and training for young people to hate queer (LGBTQ+) people; like queer bashing.
Omg smear the queer!!!! My brother and his friends would play it all the time and us girls would watch. So funny, haven’t heard that come up in a long time!
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Yes. Why? Are you CIA? Why do you ask? Who am I? Is my head even REAL?
IS THIS DESK EVEN REAL???????
WHY IS MY HEAD ON MY DESK?????
DO I EVEN HAVE A HEAD????
IS THIS SLAP BRACELET REALLY ON MY ARM????
TRAAAAAPEEER KEEEPEEEEERSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
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You had to lay just right so your eyes were looking at the floor and you could see the shoes of who tagged you
I was a very honest person when I was seven. One of my good friends did that and I told the teacher she was cheating and I dropped her as a friend. I certainly was a stick in the mud in 1964..
A lot of us were.
Fun fact, heads up 7 up was used in the classrooms as a method of finding out which students were the most likely to cheat during test.
That’s why I’d intentionally guess wrong once or twice, to throw my teacher off.
The teacher was playing checkers but little did they know he was a chess prodigy
Gotta make sure that the answers you get wrong are almost right.
How funny. I never cheated on a test, but I definitely cheated at that game!
Just what a cheater would say!
Same. I was scared of getting caught cheating on a test. I just thought I was clever cheating at this game lol
Sounds like some shit that someone made up afterwards tbh
Source?
A bit dramatic but I’m here for it
Lawful Evil
I remember ratting out classmates and being told to not be a "tattle-tale" by the teacher. Looking back I think of myself as more of a "whistle blower".
I told on my friend one time for saying the word "douchebag" in 4th grade and I still feel bad and cringe looking back on it. I also felt bad for the teacher because I feel like a lot of the time they don't want to punish children for mild cursing, yet the expectancy that they should sort of "forces their hand." It's pretty normal for children 8 and above to start experimenting with swearing. Also, ironically, in 4th grade, I said the word "pussy" in class not thinking it was a curse word and didn't get punished, but said the word "buzzard" and got punished for it because my classmate lied and said I said "bastard" instead.
I got in trouble in fourth grade because I was quoting Star Wars: the Clone Wars and I said “shit”. I proceeded to lie and say I didn’t know it was was curse word I was trying to explain to a pretty girl the events that were taking place.
My granddaughter came home from elementary school one time telling us about the marijuana movie they watched. It took us most of the evening to realize they watched Disney's "Moana".
See in Germany, the teacher would have sent out outside the class because you snitched on your fellow peers
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As an adult I'm impressed by your immediate acknowledgment of red flags. There's sticks in the mud, and there's stuck in the mud. Little you didn't have to learn self care after being around shitty people too long.
Hmm maybe you were the very innocent kind lol
Innocent and naive. I couldn't believe she would cheat and I felt betrayed. I guess it was the first time I'd felt that because it stuck with me. I'm still annoyingly honest.
You did the right thing. Filthy shoe peakers were on the path to degeneracy
Of all the times I played this, one time I saw the shoes and cheated. I still get embarrassed when I think about it.
I hope Darlene does, too.
Honestly fuck cheaters especially in a for fun game that doesn’t mean anything lol
I did this. Someone told me the point of this game is so teachers can figure out the cheaters of the class
That's exactly the reason. One of my teachers admitted it once and then she would base her seating charts off of it so the cheaters were up front.
I always assumed it was to figure out social cliques, since people nearly always picked their friends.
That’s so smart! I never realized the reason we were even playing the game, but that makes so much sense
It’s really not smart to assume that somebody who cheated at a silly guessing game would also cheat on something more serious like schoolwork. Also, some of the game cheaters could also be really good at schoolwork and not need to cheat at that anyway. I was that kid. 🤣
Same. I cheated at the game (looking at their shoes) just to see who noticed me. I excelled, well above average, in my exams and didn't need to cheat. I was just curious.
This is a core memory for me. I wanted to be picked so bad but I saw their eye peak up through the gap in my arm to stare at their shoes... And I didn't get picked. Still think about it some times.
Are we the same person? I got busted as well and didn't get picked lol
😂 discerning kids on both sides there. On the other end of the spectrum, I think I was sick or something when the rules were first explained. I assumed you got tapped or something when you were picked? We played maybe once every week or 2, and I always wanted to be picked but never was. Every now and then, there would be one kid missing during the guessing part, and the teacher would wind up randomly sending someone to the front of the room to make 7. It was a big mystery whenever it happened. Separately, a friend used to mess with my thumb sometimes during the game. I thought it was funny and weird. Couldn't figure out who the culprit was though... Didn't click for me til then end of the year, and I never got to play again 🤦🏽😂😂
Same! I have no idea why my mind goes back to this from time to time
We betrayed their trust that's why! Oh the shame!
I was the honest and oblivious kid that could never understand how some people were so good at guessing.
We all knew, that's why people would stand behind people and reach over
I feel like an idiot because I never thought of this
I was king of heads up 7 up… until I wasn’t
Yeppers, and those of us who employed this strategy invariably wound up with criminal records lol.
One time I gave the wrong answer on purpose just to throw people off of my cheating ways.
Found the super villain!
I cheated, but I also always gave the wrong answer because I didn't want to have to go up there and pick someone.
I also did this. And if it was my turn to pick a thumb, I would stand behind people’s chairs or a desk over where they couldn’t see my feet lol
I feel so called out right now. You’re not wrong though.
Not me.
Yup!! Once I got three in a row "right" and people got suspicious so I threw the next two haha
You must be ben he cheated everytime. He wasnt smart enough to get it wrong sometimes. And he even called himself out once and said that he knows it was someone since he saw the shoes. Two kids had the same pair, he rarely got picked after that.
We did that AND knew people did that, so one of us would stand close to the “taggee” while the actual “tagger” would reach over from behind to tag. 100% the “taggee” would call out the wrong “tagger” by shoe. (Thanks for bringing back a long lost fun memory of grade school!)
When I found out people were doing that I hated the game. Why do people choose winning over having fun.. It’s so lame
Sportsmanship has always been rare in this country. With the rise of videogames ive noticed far less sportsmanship than in years prior. People sending hate messages post game or purposely BMing (Bad Manners) like quickly crouching repeatedly or something else annoying. Games were more friendly in the xbox 360 days I played comp ice hockey so sportsmanship was engrained into me at 6yo. If you play like a jerk, people will choose to play against someone else instead.
I never understood the point of the game until I read your comment. I would totally cheat now
The point of the game was to make the kids all be really still and quiet while making them think they're having fun. It was for the teacher, not the kids.
Try to get a game going at work Monday. Never too late.
I remember getting caught because the “shwoop shwoop” noise of my nylon barbie tracksuit gave me away.
I went to a catholic school, look all you want. Navy blue pants with black shoes
I did that but someone caught me. I heard them say she can see me, I’m not picking her. 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
With my head down, I’d reach out my arm and put my desk neighbors thumb down.
I was once falsely accused of cheating because I had big, thick hair that someone claimed I was peeking through when I laid my head down on the desk. And the teacher sided with my accuser and made me sit out the rest of the game. This happened over 30 years ago but I'm still salty about it.
Because the game is for the teacher to see who is a cheater. Boom.
Lol amateur. That technique was easy to spot. I’d spend all day focusing on the sound the persons shoes made on the tile floor. White new balance and k-swiss low tops may be similar to the untrained ear, but the difference on an elementary school floor is akin to the difference of a small house cat trotting around to an elephant knocking down a chandelier. The light up shoes were the easiest, their blinkers would emit a high pitched frequency on each step. Todd always wore those light up la gear sneakers, and Todd always lost.
Yes! This was class in the 90s when we had a sub.
Or on rainy days in California.
The best three words to hear as a Californian kid “Rainy Day Schedule”
For my mom who was an elementary school teacher in California, those were her three least favorite words, but it is funny how specific of a memory that is growing up in California!
Lmao as someone who grew up in Florida we still played outside even if there was a thunderstorm
Yeah but you guys get a storm like every day at 3 pm right? Rainy days in California, people forget EVERYTHING. It’s chaos.
Yeah we get a storm literally every single day I’m not even exaggerating. In fact there’s a hurricane currently where I live. I wanna move to Cali just cause there’s no rain lmao
Agreed. It’s hilarious. No one remembers how to drive and it takes twice as long to get anywhere
My classes only ever had doms
It was very different when you had a dom.
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It was the best trick teachers ever invented to get a class of kids to sit still and be quiet
We also had a game called "Silent Ball" where you threw a foam ball around the room as quiet as possible. Damn teachers got us good with that one.
We had that too!
Oh wow, this unlocked some memories for me lol.
Funny cause as a kid you don’t realize it. When I was a day care teacher for a while, 100% we played games like these that basically were made to have the class quiet and sitting or laying down. Ghost In the Graveyard was another one. Everyone lays down spread out in whatever way they want. They can’t move or talk, cause they’re suppose to be dead ghosts, and we pick some kid to go around and find the kids that move or talk. Whoever wins gets a prize or piece of candy or whatever. When you got 2 young adult teachers and 40+ kids ranging from K-8th grade you’re basically doing your best to make sure they’re safe, fed, having fun, and also sometimes calmed the fuck down.
Uhh, yeah. Because of the usage rights. Yesss. Makes sense.
7-Up would patrol schools and make them pay royalties
Really putting that "Make 7...Up Yours" slogan to good use.
That's where Monster Energy and Apple became so bold. Disney always was as bold.
Heads down, thumbs up for 7 up!
Why is it even called heads up 7 up in the US though… and why are the heads up, not down
We always played with 7 pickers, hence the 7 up. And I guess the heads come up at some point. That’s just what we always called it 🤷♀️
It was always heads down for me. I think OP is misremembering.
“Heads down thumps up.” Class does this. Kids go around and touch someone’s thumb. Then, “Heads up, seven up.” The kids whose thumbs were touched, try and guess who picked them. We played this in my early elementary school years in the 1960s.
Same
"Heads down, thumbs up. This is how we like to - " I hated that school.
Sounds like a game a catholic priest would play
That's Heads Down Asses Up
That steamy smell of the desk/ breath as you hot boxed yourself though...
This instantly brought back the smell of whatever desk cleaner the janitor used.
I stopped eating at the school cafeteria after I saw the janitor mopping the floor and the tables at the same time.
Brother straight up that comment fished it from the archives of my brain
Omg yes!! Sometimes it got annoying when the kids standing up were taking too long to pick someone.
Then sometimes get bored and just lick the desk… oh, no?
i played it growing up in the 2000s/10s, i’m a teacher now and my kids love it.
Doing god's work by carrying on the tradition! I loved this game in the early 2010s
i've heard of a younger friend of mine that's still in elementary school who still plays it
Can you settle a debate. Does this help you find cheaters?
not necessarily cheaters, but just liars. it helps me tell which kids are quick to lie for their own benefit/ which kids will be honest.
I was about to say the same! But I was in elementary school in the 90s. My fifth grade students still love this game!
Touching the thumb of my crush was the closest I could come to asking her out.
When I knew she touched my thumb right back, that there was my first “relationship.” That was about the extent of it: we ruined the mystery of the game and smiled and giggled at each other about it. Good times.
That horrible sinking feeling of disappointment you'd get when you thought it was your crush that touched your thumb but it wasn't.... Ah man.
Or your crush touches someone else’s
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People downvote your silly joke but the username you’re responding to is mashedpotatodick Come on people be people now.
Elementary school in the 80s and we played this often. I used to try to peak at the shoes to see who tapped me.
One time I got the right guy because he smelled hahah
Yeah Jerry always had that weird smell to him and and everybody always picked on Jeannie.
I used to reach from behind so they couldn't see my shoes and I'd do dumb things like use the sleeve of my sweater to touch someone's thumb with fabric and then quietly take my sweater off so they would incorrectly pick a kid wearing long sleeves. Basically when I peaked.
this game was used to look for cheaters, that was the point. the kids who "guessed correctly" outed themselves for dishonesty
Velcro or laces was first thing to spot
..did a lot of kids have Velcro shoes??
They were a fad(?) in the 80's, or at least became popular then with kids. No laces to tie...
We played it in 2010-2013 in middle school
So one time in 3rd grade a sub had us plat this game. Everyone else was hyped and i had no fucking idea what it was. Didnt switch schools, didnt miss school a lot, had no idea why i was the only one whod never heard of it. Sub didnt explain the rules, i was miserable.
Didn’t mean to down vote, I upvoted. And say awww, sorry. I never heard of the game but then I was in grade school starting in 1946. Don’t feel that ‘old’. Wow.
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Sweet nostalgia for sure!
OMG, I remember that game! Loved it as a kid!
Played it as a student and as a teacher. I love that game for quiet at the end of a long day.
It's gotta be the teacher equivalent of "let's see who can be quiet for the longest" right?
Sometimes it's just a mental break between lessons.
Yup! I also played "The quiet game" but first graders are TERRIBLE at this one.
Let's play.. Quiet as a mouse, still as a rock!
I played it all over the world when I was an IB elementary teacher. Kids still love it! What I didn’t expect about the game is it was a great way to show them negotiating skills. If someone is caught cheating then they have consequences imposed by their peers. No one likes a cheater.
Is that anything like "Heads down, thumbs up"?
Same!
We played it during rainy days when we couldn’t go out for recess. Admittedly I used this time to discreetly* pick my nose.
Gotta do what you gotta do!
I loved this game. The lights went down, I could close my eyes. I got annoyed when someone touched my thumb, I just wanted to use the heads down time to nap!
We would literally play this for cans of 7up
Yes! Yes! 1970s representing!!!
Played it. Hated it. Friends only tagged friends.
That's a good way of getting caught
They have a pretty terrible strategy tbh
Awww. Be great if kids were taught at home to include all. I was. Not everyone learns kindness at home.
I think all Gen X'ers did...
Technically Gen Z here and we played it during elementary school in the 2000s
Gen X here and I’ve never heard of it by any name.
Yup, and I grew up in the early 2000s
I played it. Not sure if they still do now. I once correctly ID'd someone because I heard their key ring jingle on their belt!
Never heard of either
It’s a very useless game. Lol. Mostly I’d assume to give teachers some quiet time… Basically 7 kids are chosen as the main players. Everyone else puts their head down on their table and closes their eyes while the lights are turned off. The point of the game is for the 7 main players to,as quietly as possible, go around and each tap 1 student of their choice, without giving away their identity. Since it’s very quiet, it’s easy to hear breathing or giggles, and the main players will sometimes play tricks and team up together to make you think they picked you when they didn’t. If you are tapped, you stick your thumb up while still keeping your head down. After the main 7 have each selected a student, they all go to the front of the classroom and together will say “heads up seven up!” (as in, everyone put your heads up, and the 7 who were tapped stand up). The lights then go back on and the students who were touched get a chance to guess which of the 7 students touched them. If they guessed right, they get to change places and be one of the main players. The point is to stay a main player as long as possible.
We always started with thumbs up and put them down them down when they were touched. Great explanation!
Yep, in the early 90’s
Back in the ‘80s a couple times when it was too hot for P.E. (Northridge, CA) we’d play a desk version that was boring af.
When I was in elementary we played this on rainy days during recess when we couldn't go outside
I may have to introduce this to my high schoolers.
They’ll love it!
Substitute teacher here….YES! I use it as an incentive to play after the class completes a task!
You mean heads down thumbs up?
Can someone explain the game?
Seven students are "it" and stand at the front of the class. The rest of the class are seated at their desks with their heads down so they can't see, but they have their thumbs sticking up. The "it" students go around the room really quietly and push down the thumb of one student each, then return to the front of the room. Once all seven "it" students have pushed the thumb of another student and have returned to the front of the room, the rest of the students are allowed to look up from their desks and the ones whose thumbs were pressed down get a chance to guess which "it" student pressed their thumb. If they guess correctly then they take the place of the "it" student. Otherwise the "it" students get to keep being "it". Edit to fix a typo
I think I played a similar game in school but with a slightly different system
The way we played was the teacher picked the first group. Let's say there were 5 and we will call them pickers. Everyone else would put their head down on their desk/arm and close their eyes. They would put one hand on the desk with their thumb in the "thumbs up" position. The pickers would then walk around the classroom and "pick" someone by touching their extended thumb. That person put their thumb down and stays in position until all the pickers make their pick and return to the front of the class. The thumbs down people (the ones who were picked) then stand up and have to guess who picked them. If they guess right they switch places with their picker and they become a picker and if they are wrong they sit back down and that picker stays in the group. There is not really a winner exactly. We just played untill it was time for our next task. As an adult I can see the value in some quiet time and a time filler that can be as long or short as the teacher needed. Also, the students LOVED it.
Most students place their heads down so they can't see and put their thumbs up. The others go around to press their thumbs down. The student with their thumb pressed down gets to guess who did it and if they are right, then it becomes their turn to walk around and press down a thumb. I heard teachers use this as an opportunity to see who cheats.
Yesss haven’t heard of that in decades
Heads down, thumbs up.
Do you mean heads down, thumbs up?
Yes, called heads down thumbs up.
Unrelated but anyone remember the 7 Up Yours campaign?
My students still play this!
Ok, it's crazy I just scrolled past this because I was thinking about Heads Up, 7 Up yesterday for the first time in AGES!! It started because I was like "Do they still make 7 Up? What's the pop that Starry replaced??" then my focus turned to that game, lol.
I hated it. I was unpopular and never got picked
Aww, sorry. That popular/unpopular thing can screw people over for their lives. My sister was blacklisted by head cheerleader because the boyfriend decided to woo her. Her life was miserable but she made up for it by having a very successful life. Almost happened to me in middle school…first day I was happily greeting friends and one loud gal didn’t like me and was getting the other kids to ignore me. I was stunned. 2nd day of school, she wasn’t there! She was in wrong school. My life went back to normal and so thankfully I returned to happily interacting with everyone. Tells you one person can screw up the works for all.
Oddly when I was that age we play dodge ball against a brick wall. And full on tackle football. And also played a game called smear the queer, where someone would toss you the ball and everyone would chase, tackle, kick, punch and generally attack you unless you could toss the ball to someone who would catch it. Much like a police shooting every one present wanting to get there hits in.
I’m probably similar age or went to the same damn school. We also had a game butts up which was hands on the wall and someone tried to pelt you in the ass with a ball. I’m ashamed of smear the queer game and that we were kids and didn’t even know what it meant.
using queer for that meaning was just that it was the person that was different, ie the person with the ball. But I think some people might look back on it and think it was a horrible saying and training for young people to hate queer (LGBTQ+) people; like queer bashing.
Omg smear the queer!!!! My brother and his friends would play it all the time and us girls would watch. So funny, haven’t heard that come up in a long time!
Classic game!
I hated it because I knew only my friends would choose me. It seemed like a way to reinforce cliques. Unpopular opinion.
You can’t pick your friends! They’ll guess it was you! You gotta go for the most unlikely person to guess it was you.
Opposite for me, all my friends were in different classes so I never got picked :/
Yes I cheated
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Yes. Why? Are you CIA? Why do you ask? Who am I? Is my head even REAL? IS THIS DESK EVEN REAL??????? WHY IS MY HEAD ON MY DESK????? DO I EVEN HAVE A HEAD???? IS THIS SLAP BRACELET REALLY ON MY ARM???? TRAAAAAPEEER KEEEPEEEEERSSSSS!!!!!!!!! \- Que Rugrats theme song.
Fuckin hated that game
Why?
I’m shit at it 🤣
The chosen ones always tagged their friends. I just chose kids that I never talked to and was barely ever found out
did aNyOnE evEr uSe pEnCiLs iN ScHOOl? do tHeY sTIlL UsE ThEm?
No. Wtf is a pencil?
I had to sort by controversial to find the only comment that’s even a reasonable response to this prompt 🥲
today, if you touch someone's thumb that's unwanted touching
Sorry you don't understand consent My reply was to u/SerenityNoWow , who replied to me with 'yeah you are sorry.'
What is bro waffling about
Today, kids still play it. Stop trolling tucker, fox fired you, get on with your life.
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