Inventing Games

I find it interesting that more families don't do this very thing. I am working at my PC and outside I can hear my older children playing the game we invented called Freeze-Go, which when played correctly and with some pizazz is a ton of fun, and it makes me wonder how many of the 'other' children playing outside will pass this game along to their children someday. My point however isn't the game itself, but the concept. Most of our games are intellectual these days, though not all of them have been, a few were created purely for the fun of it! Freeze-go is the most frequently played. I've also invented games for when they were little as ways to get my children to mind me, games such as the Quiet game and Stay-in-Your-Square for when we were out in public. In the car on long rides we play Tell-the-Truth, I-Spy, Spell-It, or mental math games. In a living room it's the Pick-a-Letter-Name game. Not all of these games have actual names, the only one we refer to is Freeze-Go. All the rest are usually made up on the fly, creating rules where necessary.