Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 22, 2019

I guess Mom took the responsibility for making the mess and let Calvin go out.

Hopefully Calvin makes it to 37th base before Hobbes tags him.

Do you even know the names of the games, Calvin?

No fair, Calvin’s cheating! I’m gonna tell my mom!

I like Calvin and Hobbes version better than I like the regular one.

Is it until next year or so Calvinball gets introduced?

A banker, i see!

If they are both having fun, it doesn’t matter whether they understand it or not.

It’s how new games are invented.

That does seem like more fun than real croquet.

Such is Life.

It’s a variation on Calvinball.

Yes, those are the best games, I remember playing those with my brothers

Using all that energy that was stored up in “cleaning his room”…

He missed a wicket! This is like slalom croquet. No snow required.

Guess that would make rugby my favorite game.

Well, I was really hoping I could be here before someone called this Calvinball (which it is, but it isn’t), but I guess not.

Must be Aussie rules football.

Nobody understands cricket. I believe the English invented it to confuse their enemies.

And this was the beginning of Calvinball.

By kids called that game, “Bangy Balls.” “Just don’t hit your brother with the mallet.”

When I was a kid in the early 1950s this game (approximately) was called either “Cowboys and Indians” or “Good guys and Nazis” (Also, occasionally, “Blue-coats and Grey-coats”). The object of the game was to run around madly, calling out “Bang bang I shot you!” on the one hand or “You missed! Bang bang, I shot you!” on the other, all the while toting whatever gun-like thing you could get hold of. My mother was very firm that no actual BB guns or anything more potentially lethal would be used, and when playing “Indian” you were not allowed to use a real bow, nor arrows without suction cups.

Then we’d all go inside for cookies and milk, or in the summer, for Kool-aid popsicles made in the ice-tray.

Soon they’re gonna play football, who ever tackles the other person first wins

Don’t say “No Goal” to a Buffalo Sabres fan.

Years ago, before the adults took charge, we used to play whatever game however we wanted. Sometimes there were kerfuffles over the rules, but generally we just had good, healthy fun.