To ask if you've ever played blind man's buff?

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The classic party game in which one player is blindfolded, and tries to find one of the others, who are moving about, and sometimes has to guess who they have found by feel, or hearing them speak in a disguised voice. The game is often referenced in old fiction, as something children would do for a bit of impromptu fun. "Let's play blind man's buff while we wait for supper!"

I think it's become a forgotten game, in this age of safety, or people think of it as belonging to the era of Charles Dickens. When I was recently discussing party games with some people in their thirties, none of them had heard of it. It's probably been banned from playgrounds, like conkers, and British Bulldog.

Did you ever play it? I don't think I did as a child, but I remember playing it as a teenager once, abroad on a school trip, while we had a dull moment outside in the cold, and this was to the bemusement of passing tourists.
YANBU - I played it
YABU - I never played it

Yes, I threw a little tea party for my niece's birthday last weekend and that was one of the games we played. I'm late 30s for reference.

Yes we used to play it all the time. My kids also played it with their cousins, friends who were over or the three of them. They are 21 and teens. Also used to play red rover and what's the time Mr wolf.

Edit to say I'm 40.

It’s Blind Man’s Bluff not buff!

Aka blind man’s bluff. Also musical chairs or bumps and pass the parcel. I liked postman’s knock the best though 😘

It seems to be "bluff" in the USA; "buff" is the original British spelling.

We always called it blind man's bluff. Never heard it call 'buff'

I'm in my 40s and I only ever read about it in books.

Always been Bluff where i'm from......thought it was a rude version you were referring to at first!!!

We also did the hats, scarves and gloves on to cut up a Mars bar!!

I always thought it was "bluff" because you were trying to bluff the blindfolded person into thinking you were someone else who was playing to avoid being "out"? It was a party staple when I was small (50s)

Always been Bluff where i'm from......thought it was a rude version you were referring to at first!!!

We also did the hats, scarves and gloves on to cut up a Mars bar!!

No, buff isn't the British spelling! That means something else altogether!

We used to play it when we were kids. I'm in my 60s. My children have never played it, though.

I'm in my 50s. We played Blind Man's Buff at every party for years.

Buff means to bump or jostle; buff in slang means physically fit or naked.

We never played it growing up in 80s/90s. We knew all about it - they were always playing it in books, stories etc - but I think we tried it once or twice and didn’t find it much fun really! Preferred Sardines, ticky scarecrow, hide and seek, musical chairs, colour corners etc.

We played it as children, and squeak piggy, squeak. Remarkably similar, where one person was blindfolded and sat on a child, said squeak piggy squeak and the child made a noise and had to be guessed who is was.

Yes I played it as a child and I’m in my 30s now

We played it as a child. Also, wink murder.

Yes played it as a child in the 80s.

Yes, played it at childrens' parties in 1950s and 60s. We all called it Blindman's Buff (London). Also pass the parcel, danced the hokey-cokey, etc. I think there were treasure hunts in the garden. Also that game when you all run round a line of chairs and when the music stops have to sit down in one fast as there will be one less each round and someone will be "out" each time.The good old days when you didn't have to invite all your classmates (there were 47 in mine) and nearly all parties were at our homes with only birthday child's parents in attendance (all other parents dropped off their child and collected them at the end. Never expected to stay with you once you were school age.) Birthday child got sensibly priced little present from each guest and the guest children went home with a jamboree bag each - anyone remember those? I think they cost about 3d each but not sure.

Please explain wink murder to me!

I think i did at birthday parties ,along with musical chairs ,pin the tail on the donkey
And my mums all time favourire to calm the excited children down sleeping lions

Used to be an absolute standard at children's parties, along with Musical Bumps, Pass the Parcel, Pin the Tail on the Donkey, Musical Statues etc.
Back in the olden days, when you invited 10 to 15 friends to your house for a birthday party.

Samuel Pepys refers to it as Buff in 1664 Google tells me. But it seems to not know why buff is the word.

Oh I loved this game, and "squeak piggy squeak" which involved going round blindfolded with a cushion in hand, and plonking it on the nearest lap, sitting on it and guessing who the owner of the lap was by asking them to squeak (or grunt) 😆😆 that may be frowned upon now!

I hated it as when blindfolded I used to worry that everyone had left the room and I was just wandering round on my own. Similarly sleeping lions, that it was a joke that I was the butt of and they were all up and doing something in another room. I was quite an anxious and paranoid child !!