Aren’t all children secret Hitlers or something…
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It’s English???
Car travel game we used to play as kids was ‘Legs’. Essentially it’s left side of the car Vs right. Every time you pass a pub/inn you get points for the number of legs the name of the pub has. E.g. King William = 2, Dog and Duck = 4 + 2 = 6, Queen’s Head = 0. If there is any doubt over number of legs to count (e.g. Fox and Hounds) then the picture on the pub should be used as a guide. (NB: the picture doesn’t have to include the legs themselves, just indicate how many “things” legs you need to include.)
Obviously doesn’t work well on motorways, A-roads and below only, not great on very frequently travelled routes either. 
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That’s very amusing to me. That is a game that is the default card game in certain pockets of the midwest but completely unheard of everywhere else. Is it common over with you?
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As a kid we played Mahjong in our family. Its a chinese tile game pretty similar to generic rummy in concept but obviously played differently. It needs 4 players and has 3 suits rather than the 4 of a deck of cards - character, bamboo, and circles. Each number in a suit has 4 tiles and so the idea is to build a hand containing set of either 3 or 4 of a kind, or of runs of 3 within a suit. See here for the character tiles
A few years ago I found myself making up the numbers as the 4th seat in a game played among a group of Chinese “aunties”. The sneaky fuckers didn’t tell me their old school version of the tiles didn’t have numbers on the tiles so I had to try to play using just my memory of what the character symbols meant. They took a lot of money from me that afternoon.
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Heads of school academies are.
I play Mah Jong with family and friends. There are a fair few rule variants but we learned BMJA (British Mah Jong Association) rules first and have stuck with them. It’s reasonably close to the Chinese rules as far as I understand and has a nice set of special hands that make sense. It’s a really nice game to play, very tacticle with the tiles and you can gets some really nice sets too.
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Yeah I have played a couple of times with Americans and their version was meaingfully different than the version I was used to so I was surprised by how close my version was to the version I played with the Aunties. The main difference was scoring and payment, and I think they also used slightly stricter rules on the ways you can take from the middle out of turn to win a game.
I agree with you about the sensory nature of it. It is what made me upgrade my set a few years ago as the set I was replacing felt a bit light in your hand and cheap and I replaced it with something a lot more substantial. Something that made a nicer noise when you bang them all together in the communal shuffle.
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Makes quite the din too.
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