Four Square!

[Medical Dust]

I just played four square today for the first time in ten years, yay! Naturally I want to hear all y’alls four square and other playground stories.

I am also trying to desperately remember all the special rules, as I’m going to create a definitive list. Thanks!

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

What the heck is four square?

Seriously. No lie.

[Veno]

The Four Square with the bouncing ball? And what were you doing playing four square?

@Mod_Man- From what I remember, there's a box with 4 squares. You bounce it in the other persons square and just keep it going. There's different variations, as with most playground games.

[emwearz]

I use to love four square, with the 4 ranks, and if you were king and went out you had to start all over agian. I use to play this when I was young ALL the time at school, also with the kids on the block.

Some people call it downball I think.

[Dylan]

What the heck is four square?

Seriously. No lie.

You've really never played four square? It seemed so universal back in the day.

At any rate, the goal was to knock the ball into an opponents square after it landed in your own. If the ball lands in your square twice, if it lands in your square and goes out, or if you hit it and it goes out, then you're out and have to get back in line waiting to enter play. The squares rotate, you start in square 4 and if you get to square 1 then you get to serve (you move up squares by the players in them getting out). There were usually all kinds of rules about acceptable ways to hit the ball, for example it might be deemed that "over hands" (hitting the ball downwards) are not allowed.

Wow, that feels like a really long description for such a simple game.

[MrPopo]

I played that all the time in high school. I was the champ at spiking, especially since I'd let loose my war cry beforehand. What was fun was when I became the king's "enforcer". I'd get a nice easy lob and then totally take someone out.

[emwearz]

You guys played with balls that big? Pussy's use to play with tennis balls.

[Hobie-wan]

I've never played four square either. I do miss playing wall ball before school in 7th and 8th grade though.

[Medical Dust]

^
Wall ball needs a whole other topic of it's own.

[CaptainWeasel]

Four-square is the shit. Same with wallball. Both had their bans at my school though. Too many stupid kids getting railed in the face with a ball, I guess. Actually, no, it was those asshole kids that LIKED pegging in wallball. When you have a bunch of immature young teenagers trying to flex nuts by purposefully hitting people they wanted out the most, I guess a ban should be in place. Oh well. I feel like my generation destroyed fun for all of the rest of the following generations.