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

@Thistooshallpsss We played "the big ship sails on the Ally Ally O" at school, with its complicated movements. Somehow, we always got it right.

I never played Squeak Piggy Squeak, but at school, we often played at guessing who was speaking in a funny voice. On one occasion, the teacher asked "can you see?", and just for fun, I said "yes". There was a bemused silence, and we played anyway. I learned afterwards that the teacher had waved her hand in front of my blindfold, and I had not reacted. The person chosen to speak then said "how many fingers am I holding up?"

Whenever our church had a raffle, a few children would be chosen to pull out the winning tickets, and they were always blindfolded. I was sad that I never got chosen to do this!

We used to play the big ship sails on the Alley alley oh
At primary school ,i cant remember the details but i remember the whole play ground joined in.

Yes. I remember The Big Ship Sails and Oranges and Lemons being playground games rather than party games. We played both at my primary school
in the 1960s.

We played Blind Man’s Buff and Squeak Piggy Squeak at home, along with hide and seek and sardines, but for some reason just with family - not parties.

At family gatherings when I was small we would play "murder in the dark" - I wonder @Bbq1 if that is the same as "wink murder"? Someone was the detective, someone the murderer and of course someone the victim. Lights were turned off. Someone would fall to the floor with a groan. Lights on again. Everyone else had to work out whodunnit. I don't think my family really knew the rules of the game as it always started off a bit chaotic and then just petered out to nothing.

It’s either. Buff is the traditional name. Bumping into one another is buffing.

I am in my thirties and know of it but my 10yo probably won't

I used to play it when at kids parties, I’m 59. My dc also know it, as we’ve played it too, they’re 24&20.

I gave my kids traditional parties with all of the old party games when they were young (they are now in their 20s), so Blind Man’s Buff, musical chairs, musical bumps, musical statues, dead lions, etc etc. They were always very popular and we always used to end up with more children than invited as siblings wanted to come too. We had a traditional tea, too, with cheese and pineapple on sticks, cocktail sausages, fairy cakes etc. It made a change from soft play,

Definitely played it! As well as all manner of other games both "real" and invented by us. It helped probably that we had a huge playroom, didn't have a TV and were a family of 5 children who often had friends or cousins over.

Yes, we played it and it was buff.

i played Blind Man’s Bluff as a kid (now in my 40s)

My dc and I still play the chocolate game! Hats, scarfs and gloves - roll a 6 and try to cut up a giant dairy milk chocolate bar 😂

That sounds great. What games did you invent?

Yes but a long time ago

Yes I played it, in fact I played it last year with my family. I'm 50! It was hilarious!

Our parents loved games where we had to imagine that something was happening. One Easter Sunday, we children were told that the Bunny would hide our eggs in the garden in front of us. We couldn't see a thing because we were blindfolded, and had to keep very silent and listen for him moving about with a little bell, and he talked to us in a squeaky voice, telling us we had to find some eggs on the lawn before we were allowed to take our blindfolds off. We knew it was pretend, but we loved these games!

Yes, we did as kids in the 60s and 70s. My own kids played it too, and hopefully they'll pass it on when/if they have their own.
It IS correctly called 'buff' (a search shows it refers to how the blindfolded person would be gently 'buffed' or shoved/jostled etc at the start of the game.)
Probably will get re-packaged as 'searching game for the visually compromised' 😏

Definitely ‘buff’ when I was growing up, Scotland, 1950s. Never heard it called ‘bluff’ before.