Just to let you know, my four square wasn't nearly as friendly. *visions of children screaming and fighting over one another as they debate whether the ball hit the line or if snake eyes really exists.*
Yea and people team up and theirs this one girl who never gets out her friends but gets other people out and she said that people team up and the kids she gets out all look at her like "really"
bruh it was war LOL but good memories (even the arguments). Idk why i remember it being played differently at my school like i think we used to over hand it as well.
I get this this was a learning exercise, but still. Watching it felt like one of those things where everybody gets a participation trophy. You are given a soft bouncy ball for a reason. It is the same ball used in dodgeball. And that is what 4 square is. It is dodgeball with different rules. And I swear I would break out more of a sweat just going to get the paper from the copier down the hall then what these people are doing.
For us we could use one hand, and we called spiking: slamming. We did this as hard as we could and it made the game more fun. There was also a tactic where you guide the ball past someone else's line and then slam backwards to make it harder to get
I remember feeling like a thug when we played this game. Our rules must've been different or we were just crazier. We took this game so fckn serious lmao. Glad to see it's still a thing tho hopefully kids are still playing!
My church plays this all the time I’m hella good I’m always getting king square then letting myself get out unless they hit it at my legs 🤦♂️ But we play where we can hit harder and if it hits the middle line then we redo it
There must have been a crap ton of people waiting then. In that case, they should just have another (or even a few) different games going on at the same time.
Yes, we also got people out by smacking them hard with the ball, basically like dodgeball... that was the best, send those nwewbies crying to back of the line. Also fun was when everyone ganged up on the king because he was obviously starting to get too high and mighty.
In my school in Chile we called this game ‘Toi’, but it was somewhat different. We upped it a bit by requiring the players to make the ball bounce exactly once on their square before crossing to any other square, unless the player returned an incoming ball with its head, in which case he could hit it straight into the square of anybody else. Also, moving into other player’s squares was allowed as a means to interfere with their play, but any player on an opponent’s square could only hit the ball with its head. If he was hit anywhere else by the player currently in that square or any other, he or she would leave the game and get into the end of the queue. Serves also required a first bounce into one’s square first. It was very cool, because players would start hitting lower and lower bounces, until the pros would engage in ball-skimming duels. We always played with inflatable balls made with thin plastic, very bouncy, light and safe to hit with an open palm. Also, the lines were wider. I graduated school at 18, now I’m 24 and just finding out this is a thing in the US. It was a game I loved dearly and I always wondered why it wasn’t a fully-fledged sport. I want to play again
In my school we had the same rule of needing it to bounce once in your square when you hit it before it goes to the next square. We called it sockout. We had some ridiculous forms for hitting it.
We called it boxball in my community, l was the 7th grade champ. Hadn’t played since until I saw three kids with a ball looking bored. I taught them the game was excited and happy playing it. I’m surprised that I never played this with my kids when they were children. What good memories!!
I have fond memories of playing this! We always labelled the squares jack, queen, king, and ace. It was always such an honor to get to ace... But always so difficult
How wonderful to see Foursquare again. We used to play with a lot more gusto in LA in the 60s. And the line was soo long, if you got on the court before recess was over you were doing well! Nothing like that in London.
one handed and it has to bounce in your own square once before entering someone elses. If it bounces twice in your square your out and if it bounces twice in your opponents square then same applies to them if it bounces twice in their square they are out. If you hit the ball outside of all 4 squares then you are out, same applies to your opponent. If you get someone out you move from these tiers of squares dunce, jack, queen and king I Queen I King I I Jack I Dunce I At the start of a match the king can start the game or they can designate the queen to be the one to begin the games if they wish and they can also choose the rules. This is how we used to play back in primary and secondary school.
do you guys have slugs/lowballs like australia do? in aussie, slug is when you fking slap the ball with twice the strength you even have (idk how its possible but it is) and then you gotta slap it even harder. Also our ball is 10 cm diameter and its hard. Also you gotta hit ur square first
"When someone gets a 'good job, nice try'..." Okay, I get that you're trying to be cheerful and positive. And I love that vibe. But when I was a kid, we'd rip half the skin off our arm trying to keep that ball in bounds. This game gets heated. When a good volley ends in someone getting out, there's no "good job, nice try", it's high energy screaming and spitting in eachothers face. Good times
I remember alot more aggressive and competitive atmosphere in playing four square even some dirty moves to get certain people out 😑 but I still love the game it was fun but kids back then was mean as hell
BRO MY SCHOOL SOMEHOW MANAGED TO CURVE THE BALLS, AND THE 3 PEOPLE WHO KNEW HOW TO CURVE IT MADE A TRUCE TO ALWAYS DISQUALIFY THE PERSON IN THE FIRST BOX
In South Africa we play it a little different. It's usually played with a tennis ball and the ball has to bounce in your court first before it goes to another player's. If you hit it into another court without it bouncing in your court first that " direct " and you are out to join the line. There's King, Queen, Jack , Dunt / Toilet ( depending where you are from 😂 ). If you go out in any position other than King, you go join the line. King gets to move to Dunt if he fouls. King also serves the ball, but if he fouls on his serve he will be considered out and have to move to Dunt. You can play 4 blocks in a square or even 1 vs 1 if you don't have a lot have a lot people. Greatest playground game ever!! 😂🤣
Thanks for sharing Siphiwe! We love hearing about how recess games like Foursquare are played in different ways around the world. And we agree, it IS a pretty great game!
You guys are playing a seriously tame version of this game. When I played this in middle school, we used to dribble the ball up in the air (3 dribbles allowed) and do slam dunks, put spin on the ball, shoot it between our legs, double fisted hammers, fakes, etc. Every kid had their own signature move.
Saw a video on that on "HowToDad" and was not aware of the existence of this game. So if I understand it correctly you yourself can also stand behind the lines of your square when you serve the ball? Or do you have to remain inside the square? Thank you for explaining. It is pretty good.
I remember we would do things like cherry bomb and tornado to make things even crazier during the game. Even without calling these techniques it would still be a heated game. Also arguing whether or not the ball hit the line was quite common!
We allowed overhand throws....we used to sling it then hit them with a hard curve across 2 other squares, bounce in "A" curved hard into a one bounce in "B" is an auto out for "A".
I am high school right now and still play hand ball, it is amazing when your good at game. They were allies and rivalry and lots of swearing. Never have I thought I would sweat playing the game.
In Philadelphia, PA, this game is called King Ball. And when the kids play it (ahem, or adults) it is vicious. the line to get the game can be 10 kids deep. In this version if you hit a line, miss a ball or hit a "bad-ball" you get a letter K-I-N-G. After G your told be a chorus of kids that "You're Out!" And it's nothing worse than getting OUT when the "King" serves you a spiked ball or one with back-spin. These kids take this game serious!
Everyone on that court is resisting the urge to smack the ball 1 basket ball court away. I would know, we play four square on a basket ball court and called it 6 square
ours was ALOT less friendly. The vision they put of four square in the video is completely wrong, imagine this. Screaming kids, "THAT WAS OWN SQUARE DUMBASS!", "IMPROPER SERVE!" "ARE YOU BLIND THAT WAS LINEY!"
You missed the “Cherry bomb” technique. You know, the one where you grab the ball and slam it as hard as you could on an opposition square. Ahh, good times.
Me and my friends played something called Ultimate Foursquare, we would use a playing area the size of a two car driveway witch each slab of concrete being one player's square, instead of a large rubber ball, we used a hollow super ball, about the size of an orange, and used our hands to whack it as hard as we could.
Uh... no. We never hit under hand. We always hit with our palms face down. We always debate whether or not the ball hit line or not. We don’t give out high fives if someone gets out. We always push them about it, making fun of them (we only do it with good friends). Some of us argued about spiking or snake eyes. Me and my friends (sort of?) invented something called smashes (for our school anyway). Me and a friend name ours after US States/major cities. I have one called Carolina, and it’s basically a spike with a jump to add more force. It’s a 90% guaranteed out. Everyone always aims to get me out immediately, cause they think i’m gonna use Caroline. I also have one called Detroit, where I raise my hand and slam with all my might into the other persons square. It’s got a 70% chance of getting someone out, and a 30% chance they’ll hit it back. My friend has one called Meteor Smash (not a city or state, but it’s his idea i don’t really care). He only uses it when he’s needs saving (about to be out). He hits the ball with his palm and spins it, then smashes it into the corner of someone’s square.
In the late 90s, we would make fun of the people that lost. We would also get calluses on our wrists from hitting the ball so hard and landing the infamous curve ball skimmers. What you know about that?
I read a lot of comments saying this game was more lethal or the players were cruel. In the four square at my school, 1, 2, 3, and 4 are regarded as peasant, knight, queen, and king, respectively. King, may add gameplay modifiers like "Double-taps", "Back-stops", and such. King serves across instead of adjacent. The taps are way more lenient in my games as you can have hand to ball contact for some split-seconds, as long as a "yeet" charge-up isn't too long or someone doesn't grab the ball. In the case that the ball hits the line and neither of the squares connected by it "claims" the ball, a redo is offered. In other words, in my foursquare, you don't get out on line, and also on serves. If knight (person who gets served) fails to make an adequate pass after being served, they may get 2 more tries. Terminology- Double taps- players can legally touch the ball twice before it touches the next persons square. Back-stops- Airball the ball into your square and then hit it into someone else's Yeet- An aggressively longitudinal tap TLDR?- my fouresquare is very different.
Yeah sure that happens 1:05 In MY school if you get someone out they drop kick the ball and the person that got them out has to run after it. Its NEVER good job goodbye! ATLEAST YOU GET A HIGHFIVE.
When I was in school in the 80s in Australia we called the squares Ace, Queen, Jack and Dunce. And we used a tennis ball, never even imagined it played with something the size of a basketball lol
I used to play this at school. It got serious, when people got out they were pissed. Once i got out, i got the ball and slammed it against the ground and the teacher on supervision duty gave me detention.
in my school we call it champ so some of the rules is 1. You cant double touch when the ball comes to your box 2. if you get out on the first serve the game starts again and your safe (we just shout "first serve" and that person doesnt get out) 3. You cant continue so if someone gets out like double touching or the ball goes in their box and they dont get it but you play on, your out and that person is safe 4. you cant slam, so if you bounce the ball and it goes over the persons height or you slam and its impossible to get, then your out (you can only do this on the first serve in the middle) 5. if the ball goes on the lines then the game redos and your safe 6. you can only use on hand 7. you can redo if you feel like you got out unfair (tbh i abuse these rules bc i bought the ball and i can do whatever i want but i still keep it fair) 8. if you are no.1 (champ) you serve first 9. you are allowed to hold the ball but only with one hand so you can do some cool tricks if someone tries to get you out 10. dont get into an argument this game can be toxic or really sweaty 11. if it hits your legs the game redos like it hit lines 12. if the ball goes to your box and you miss the persons box you were trying to hit (it goes out) then your out unless it hits lines 13. play the game have fun
In our school, you have to bounce into your square and then on others. If u bounce on ur square twice it's double bounce and also means your out. If u didnt bounce in your square before bouncing into others then its a lob and also means your out. If its the line then its a liner means anyone can surf from the line but they cant surf it to their self. The number 4 square is known as ace and the ace can make rules such as the amount of time you get to hold the ball. You are also not allowed to touch the ball twice or with two hands. We played the game for so long we actually did it over, we do things like brutal hard passes which goes very low and quickly but then since most of us are good at this, we actually got the ball (one hand) and reflected back until one of us loses control. We do different tricks over the legs either back or front. We like to play peacefully or else everyone just gets you out after you came in.
Hey William! Great question. If you're on a playground, a standard Four Square court is 10 feet by 10 feet divided into four smaller squares (which are 5 feet by 5 feet each). Hope that helps!
Usually we bounce it into our square before letting it bounce into the opponents square. It becomes to op to bounce the ball straight into the opponents square. I mean like it bounces in your square once, then you hit it into your square then opponents.
I remember in my primary school we used to play a similar game called 'handball'. It was basically the same except with a high-bounce rubber ball about the size of a tennis ball. The kids, especially the older kids would get vicious with this game and hit the ball extremely hard, low to the ground, or into the corner of the court (or all three). The sore losers would sometimes bounce the ball extremely high.
Lisa Simpson: We were playing Four Square and I called no double tab, but Ralph double tabs. I said "you're out!" Then he says "I can do a sum-ber-salt" which has nothing to do with anything!
i remember back in middleschool we used to play this game but it was called boxball where we could only use one hand and if it hit you box twice youre out and you never rotate
Wow! This is so different. I play four square atm, and I play with roles like king, queen, etc. Plus if we hit line, we consider it a "redo" but that varies for different people. Also, I’ve always wondered, if player 1 hits the ball and it hits player 2 who is standing outside of the boundary, is player 1 out for hitting it out of bounds, or is player 2 out for getting hit even though they were outside the lines!
One more rule in this game is snake.i it isn’t a rule but it’s a game mode. If your number 4 and your playing snake.i then you can pass it to anyone with first serve and btw 2 bad serves=out. If your playing regularly then u have to pass it to square number two first.
In junior high we ended up implementing a rule that ended up being school wide and super popular. You play the game with your feet. This pretty much solved all arguments because it's almost impossible to purposefully chicken feet someone, cherry bomb, or accidentally hit a line. Maybe we had some disputes about lines but if you could cherry bomb, good on you bud, that's skill lol. And chicken feet doesnt matter because well... You're playing with your feet so it actually helps the opponent if you throw the ball towards their feet
Not how we played it. We have to hit in in our square before it hits another one. We use small ball can can use one hand. We have to tap it. If it hits the line we don't count in as anything. If i does, then bounces out, we do whichever square was closest to ball.
Good job nice try?????? WRONG! It's you messed up. Your out. Go to the back of the line. Stop coddling our kids. Failure is an important part of life and it must not be sugared over.
I was going to say the same thing. "Oh you got a good job nice try" what? If saying "you're out" in 4 square causes you to cry, then you need MORE reality checks, not fewer. Pretty soon everything is going to be so coddled that people will no longer say murderers and criminals but "meanie pants oopsy poopsies" and we'll no longer die but instead "move on to the magical sugar cane forest of happiness and love". It's so gross how our gutless/spineless society stoops so low, even with something as trivial as 4 square.
I remember this back at school with cheap tennis rackets and a plastic ball, We called it champ cause instead of a server then the person in 1 would serve, making him the "champ" And whoever was sitting out when he got in he would be in 4 and would have to try to get others out until he can become 1. We also had some other rules like 1 couldnt shoot towards 3 when they served and whatnot. Needless to say, when you equip competitive kids with tennis rackets and plastic balls, the result is half the year having black eyes and bruises on their cheeks. Good times.
*at my school, we have a strict p.e coach that makes the most stupid rules. you have to serve to the first square. you can't hit the ball with one hand. if it goes close the centerline then you are out. if it goes close the place that is close to the centerline then you don't have to hit the ball. the list goes on and on.*
Does anyone know the name of the game that uses those painted circles? They are at literally every outdoor court but I can’t find anything online about it
Take some of their rules, but here’s what to do instead. 1. Do *NOT* be nice. Treat it like a battlefield. 2. Argue if it hit line or not. Line also isn’t out
This ain't how we play at my school, the rules at my school are: Square one must serve at all times to square 3, if the ball hits a inner line(the ones that overlap) we re do the serve/ start over the round, if it hits an outer line(the square on the outside) then the person whose line it hit is out, if the ball goes out and it touched your square and you didn't hit it your out, we don't all rotate if someone gets out only if the person infront of you does. If someone infront of you, you and the person behind you move up a square each and a new player joins, if you hit your own square with the ball your out
I used to LOVE playing this game in elementary school!!😁😁😁🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾
Me too!
Same
Never heard of this game until like 4 years ago.
im in secondary and i still play it
For real BRO same
Great memories of everyone fighting each other because someone said the ball hit the line and someone refusing to get out
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Dark Void Ikrr their so annoying
Just to let you know, my four square wasn't nearly as friendly.
*visions of children screaming and fighting over one another as they debate whether the ball hit the line or if snake eyes really exists.*
and yet, four-square is still going at my school, in most grades
Sorryごめんなさい EXACTLY LMAO ITS NOT FRIENDLY LMAO.
I agree. So many people lost their friends because of this game. Everyone turned on each other, you'd think we were playing monopoly. 😂
Yea and people team up and theirs this one girl who never gets out her friends but gets other people out and she said that people team up and the kids she gets out all look at her like "really"
Sorryごめんなさい same with my school me and my friends were chill and diddent argue but everyone else was pretty mad
I remember it being way more intense than this. Also, no one ever said "good bye, nice try"
No high fives were given =(
I swear some people were foaming at the mouth when getting out.
bruh it was war LOL but good memories (even the arguments). Idk why i remember it being played differently at my school like i think we used to over hand it as well.
People instead just bullied the guy who got out
More like "REDO"
Oh please, no one plays that slow.
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Ikr people go full throttle
I get this this was a learning exercise, but still. Watching it felt like one of those things where everybody gets a participation trophy. You are given a soft bouncy ball for a reason. It is the same ball used in dodgeball. And that is what 4 square is. It is dodgeball with different rules. And I swear I would break out more of a sweat just going to get the paper from the copier down the hall then what these people are doing.
My school had these people come over to help us play foursquare but we already know how to play foursquare
Be lucky if you get to even blink
We used to spike the ball as hard as we could almost like volleyball without a net. This game brings back really fond memories of gradeschool.
At my school we ruled out cherry bombing becuz the game doesn’t progress
Cherry bombs are a disgrace to four square because it’s basically a kid version of spike
Destructed all of the kids >:)
Spiking , absolutely! Goodbye nice try? Are you kidding me?
For us we could use one hand, and we called spiking: slamming.
We did this as hard as we could and it made the game more fun.
There was also a tactic where you guide the ball past someone else's line and then slam backwards to make it harder to get
"Or number A." Yeah I love that number.
Yes
Killgrl P0werhead be quiet
@@killgrlp0werhead31 i know you posted that 2 years ago but..............fuck you
@@killgrlp0werhead31 quit talkin about bein smart, I bet u have -51 brain cells so be quiet
@@kevinng7403 I bet $51 you can't even count to -51.
"Good job, nice try"
That is just too wholesome. 😁
It seems nice and calming until someone says
*"No it didn't touch the line"*
Our games were never this slow or friendly lol.
0:41 she said number A 😂😂
yeah I got confused and had to rewind a few times. Now I know why.
Ella dijo número A
0:33 the way that guy went into the square tho 😂
I remember feeling like a thug when we played this game. Our rules must've been different or we were just crazier. We took this game so fckn serious lmao. Glad to see it's still a thing tho hopefully kids are still playing!
Yeah we still are too this day lmfao
My church plays this all the time
I’m hella good I’m always getting king square then letting myself get out unless they hit it at my legs 🤦♂️
But we play where we can hit harder and if it hits the middle line then we redo it
@@lucidstrikerx7180 Yesss I love to hear that man have fun!
Yh
naw , they’re all on their electronics now 😓
0:43 Are we all just gonna let that slip by😂
"bro i swear the ball didn't hit the line!"
our rules was, if it hit an internal line, it was up for grabs between the adjacent players.
**chalk smudges on ground and ball”
@@blahuhm6782 for us it would just be a redo if nobody was really sure
Source: just trust me bro
“At least you get a high five.”
My school:
“HA GET WRECKED IMAGINE GETTING OUT LOLOLOLOL”
I’ve wasted many recesses waiting in line for my turn. Can’t say that I’ve ever made it to a square
There must have been a crap ton of people waiting then. In that case, they should just have another (or even a few) different games going on at the same time.
I use to Hadouken the hell out of the foursquare ball. Had a serious single-hand palm-strike too. Man this brings back memories.
These people are too nice to each other. My friends and I used to get super competitive over foresquare. Great times
1:07 "but at least you get a high five."
*NAHHH*
Smh, you get spinnied on or someone hits you with the cherry bomb and it's all over
cherry bombs were illegal in our courts
@@siltant9458 Unfortunate
1:02, in my school we dont give high fives
Instead we give punches if a person refuses to get out.
Yes, we also got people out by smacking them hard with the ball, basically like dodgeball... that was the best, send those nwewbies crying to back of the line. Also fun was when everyone ganged up on the king because he was obviously starting to get too high and mighty.
@@blahuhm6782 😂😂true.
Obstruction blast!
I stopped watching after she said "number A"
It's king loafer,worker and Prince/queen
Same lol
4 square. Not A square :(
for me its king queen jacks dunce
@@blackbed5108 That's the way we did it and it's the only way. Gotta let the scrubs know who they are, never a King.
In my school in Chile we called this game ‘Toi’, but it was somewhat different. We upped it a bit by requiring the players to make the ball bounce exactly once on their square before crossing to any other square, unless the player returned an incoming ball with its head, in which case he could hit it straight into the square of anybody else. Also, moving into other player’s squares was allowed as a means to interfere with their play, but any player on an opponent’s square could only hit the ball with its head. If he was hit anywhere else by the player currently in that square or any other, he or she would leave the game and get into the end of the queue. Serves also required a first bounce into one’s square first. It was very cool, because players would start hitting lower and lower bounces, until the pros would engage in ball-skimming duels. We always played with inflatable balls made with thin plastic, very bouncy, light and safe to hit with an open palm. Also, the lines were wider. I graduated school at 18, now I’m 24 and just finding out this is a thing in the US. It was a game I loved dearly and I always wondered why it wasn’t a fully-fledged sport. I want to play again
In my school we had the same rule of needing it to bounce once in your square when you hit it before it goes to the next square. We called it sockout. We had some ridiculous forms for hitting it.
We called it boxball in my community, l was the 7th grade champ. Hadn’t played since until I saw three kids with a ball looking bored. I taught them the game was excited and happy playing it. I’m surprised that I never played this with my kids when they were children. What good memories!!
Glad this game brought back some good memories! Thanks for sharing KAM :)
I think we can all agree this game is lacking violence. There needs to be way more violence.
I have fond memories of playing this! We always labelled the squares jack, queen, king, and ace. It was always such an honor to get to ace... But always so difficult
How wonderful to see Foursquare again. We used to play with a lot more gusto in LA in the 60s. And the line was soo long, if you got on the court before recess was over you were doing well! Nothing like that in London.
“Good job nice try” 😂. Underhand two handed throw 😂. That’s not how to play 4 square
Facts
No one says good job in 4 square
@@sylodui8896 yeah it's more like "lol you're shit get out ffs"
one handed and it has to bounce in your own square once before entering someone elses.
If it bounces twice in your square your out and if it bounces twice in your opponents square then same applies to them if it bounces twice in their square they are out.
If you hit the ball outside of all 4 squares then you are out, same applies to your opponent.
If you get someone out you move from these tiers of squares dunce, jack, queen and king
I Queen I King I
I Jack I Dunce I
At the start of a match the king can start the game or they can designate the queen to be the one to begin the games if they wish and they can also choose the rules.
This is how we used to play back in primary and secondary school.
Who the frick plays like this
0:46
Geoff I want to know
it's like they're playing "hot potato" or something... that shit wouldn't fly where I'm from
This is not how we do it in South Africa
Lol we used to do spin balls, behind the back, cherry bombs, psyche outs, all kinds of shit
do you guys have slugs/lowballs like australia do?
in aussie, slug is when you fking slap the ball with twice the strength you even have (idk how its possible but it is) and then you gotta slap it even harder. Also our ball is 10 cm diameter and its hard. Also you gotta hit ur square first
I loved this game as a kid! We used to make up our own moves.
"When someone gets a 'good job, nice try'..."
Okay, I get that you're trying to be cheerful and positive. And I love that vibe.
But when I was a kid, we'd rip half the skin off our arm trying to keep that ball in bounds. This game gets heated. When a good volley ends in someone getting out, there's no "good job, nice try", it's high energy screaming and spitting in eachothers face.
Good times
A serves in our school and we don't do high fives
Same
We punch you
I remember alot more aggressive and competitive atmosphere in playing four square even some dirty moves to get certain people out 😑 but I still love the game it was fun but kids back then was mean as hell
Vivid memories of the ball being smashed into the ground on purpose
BRO MY SCHOOL SOMEHOW MANAGED TO CURVE THE BALLS, AND THE 3 PEOPLE WHO KNEW HOW TO CURVE IT MADE A TRUCE TO ALWAYS DISQUALIFY THE PERSON IN THE FIRST BOX
@@HugoRBLX I mean it's true
I remember everyone going crazy in this like barely touching the ball in the other square or hitting in the corner
Kids beat the crap out of each other cause we did “butter scotch”
(Hit the edge of the inside of the square...nearly impossible to counter or do.)
Back in the day, we stayed in our own square and didn't give out high fives.
In South Africa we play it a little different. It's usually played with a tennis ball and the ball has to bounce in your court first before it goes to another player's. If you hit it into another court without it bouncing in your court first that " direct " and you are out to join the line. There's King, Queen, Jack , Dunt / Toilet ( depending where you are from 😂 ). If you go out in any position other than King, you go join the line. King gets to move to Dunt if he fouls. King also serves the ball, but if he fouls on his serve he will be considered out and have to move to Dunt.
You can play 4 blocks in a square or even 1 vs 1 if you don't have a lot have a lot people.
Greatest playground game ever!! 😂🤣
Thanks for sharing Siphiwe! We love hearing about how recess games like Foursquare are played in different ways around the world. And we agree, it IS a pretty great game!
Growing up in the 70's and early 80's we would play this game for hours.
So much memories. 😭
You guys are playing a seriously tame version of this game. When I played this in middle school, we used to dribble the ball up in the air (3 dribbles allowed) and do slam dunks, put spin on the ball, shoot it between our legs, double fisted hammers, fakes, etc. Every kid had their own signature move.
Saw a video on that on "HowToDad" and was not aware of the existence of this game. So if I understand it correctly you yourself can also stand behind the lines of your square when you serve the ball? Or do you have to remain inside the square? Thank you for explaining. It is pretty good.
I remember we would do things like cherry bomb and tornado to make things even crazier during the game. Even without calling these techniques it would still be a heated game. Also arguing whether or not the ball hit the line was quite common!
One of the most violent games of the 90s generation!
I also miss playing tether ball!
We allowed overhand throws....we used to sling it then hit them with a hard curve across 2 other squares, bounce in "A" curved hard into a one bounce in "B" is an auto out for "A".
I am high school right now and still play hand ball, it is amazing when your good at game. They were allies and rivalry and lots of swearing. Never have I thought I would sweat playing the game.
thats how we play when the boys are mocking the girls for wanting to play friendly
they go SUPER slow and dont use slams or two touches
Thanks! I will try it here in the US. I come from Colombia and it's a new experience for me!
Camilo Esteban Vélez Marín this game changed my life. I was ten but still
Told my kids about this game the other day told them I was the best and started to teach them brings back good memories
In Philadelphia, PA, this game is called King Ball. And when the kids play it (ahem, or adults) it is vicious. the line to get the game can be 10 kids deep. In this version if you hit a line, miss a ball or hit a "bad-ball" you get a letter K-I-N-G. After G your told be a chorus of kids that "You're Out!" And it's nothing worse than getting OUT when the "King" serves you a spiked ball or one with back-spin. These kids take this game serious!
Everyone on that court is resisting the urge to smack the ball 1 basket ball court away. I would know, we play four square on a basket ball court and called it 6 square
ours was ALOT less friendly. The vision they put of four square in the video is completely wrong, imagine this. Screaming kids, "THAT WAS OWN SQUARE DUMBASS!",
"IMPROPER SERVE!" "ARE YOU BLIND THAT WAS LINEY!"
You missed the “Cherry bomb” technique. You know, the one where you grab the ball and slam it as hard as you could on an opposition square.
Ahh, good times.
Me and my friends played something called Ultimate Foursquare, we would use a playing area the size of a two car driveway witch each slab of concrete being one player's square, instead of a large rubber ball, we used a hollow super ball, about the size of an orange, and used our hands to whack it as hard as we could.
The were no high fives in this game... Instead, there were high stakes. Friendships lost, friendships made, tears, and crowns.
Uh... no. We never hit under hand. We always hit with our palms face down. We always debate whether or not the ball hit line or not. We don’t give out high fives if someone gets out. We always push them about it, making fun of them (we only do it with good friends). Some of us argued about spiking or snake eyes. Me and my friends (sort of?) invented something called smashes (for our school anyway). Me and a friend name ours after US States/major cities. I have one called Carolina, and it’s basically a spike with a jump to add more force. It’s a 90% guaranteed out. Everyone always aims to get me out immediately, cause they think i’m gonna use Caroline. I also have one called Detroit, where I raise my hand and slam with all my might into the other persons square. It’s got a 70% chance of getting someone out, and a 30% chance they’ll hit it back. My friend has one called Meteor Smash (not a city or state, but it’s his idea i don’t really care). He only uses it when he’s needs saving (about to be out). He hits the ball with his palm and spins it, then smashes it into the corner of someone’s square.
In the late 90s, we would make fun of the people that lost. We would also get calluses on our wrists from hitting the ball so hard and landing the infamous curve ball skimmers. What you know about that?
I remember how hard kids would hit it and I’d have to run out of square to make sure it didn’t touch outside after it hit my square last
I read a lot of comments saying this game was more lethal or the players were cruel. In the four square at my school, 1, 2, 3, and 4 are regarded as peasant, knight, queen, and king, respectively. King, may add gameplay modifiers like "Double-taps", "Back-stops", and such. King serves across instead of adjacent. The taps are way more lenient in my games as you can have hand to ball contact for some split-seconds, as long as a "yeet" charge-up isn't too long or someone doesn't grab the ball. In the case that the ball hits the line and neither of the squares connected by it "claims" the ball, a redo is offered. In other words, in my foursquare, you don't get out on line, and also on serves. If knight (person who gets served) fails to make an adequate pass after being served, they may get 2 more tries.
Terminology-
Double taps- players can legally touch the ball twice before it touches the next persons square.
Back-stops- Airball the ball into your square and then hit it into someone else's
Yeet- An aggressively longitudinal tap
TLDR?- my fouresquare is very different.
In the UK we called this King Ball, square No.4 was King - we use to have a line of twenty people waiting to play.
Yes bro same!
I am 17 and don't know how to play, so thanks for this
Yeah sure that happens 1:05
In MY school if you get someone out they drop kick the ball and the person that got them out has to run after it. Its NEVER good job goodbye! ATLEAST YOU GET A HIGHFIVE.
When I was in school in the 80s in Australia we called the squares Ace, Queen, Jack and Dunce. And we used a tennis ball, never even imagined it played with something the size of a basketball lol
Forgotten memory lmao. In elementary school we did murder shots. Also allowed bobbling which was basically juggling the ball.
My #1 favourite in elementary
I used to play this at school. It got serious, when people got out they were pissed. Once i got out, i got the ball and slammed it against the ground and the teacher on supervision duty gave me detention.
in my school we call it champ
so some of the rules is 1. You cant double touch when the ball comes to your box
2. if you get out on the first serve the game starts again and your safe (we just shout "first serve" and that person doesnt get out)
3. You cant continue so if someone gets out like double touching or the ball goes in their box and they dont get it but you play on, your out and that person is safe
4. you cant slam, so if you bounce the ball and it goes over the persons height or you slam and its impossible to get, then your out (you can only do this on the first serve in the middle)
5. if the ball goes on the lines then the game redos and your safe
6. you can only use on hand
7. you can redo if you feel like you got out unfair (tbh i abuse these rules bc i bought the ball and i can do whatever i want but i still keep it fair)
8. if you are no.1 (champ) you serve first
9. you are allowed to hold the ball but only with one hand so you can do some cool tricks if someone tries to get you out
10. dont get into an argument this game can be toxic or really sweaty
11. if it hits your legs the game redos like it hit lines
12. if the ball goes to your box and you miss the persons box you were trying to hit (it goes out) then your out unless it hits lines
13. play the game have fun
In our school, you have to bounce into your square and then on others. If u bounce on ur square twice it's double bounce and also means your out. If u didnt bounce in your square before bouncing into others then its a lob and also means your out. If its the line then its a liner means anyone can surf from the line but they cant surf it to their self. The number 4 square is known as ace and the ace can make rules such as the amount of time you get to hold the ball. You are also not allowed to touch the ball twice or with two hands. We played the game for so long we actually did it over, we do things like brutal hard passes which goes very low and quickly but then since most of us are good at this, we actually got the ball (one hand) and reflected back until one of us loses control. We do different tricks over the legs either back or front. We like to play peacefully or else everyone just gets you out after you came in.
Wonderful video it’s too bad they didn’t tell you what the dimensions of the court
Hey William! Great question. If you're on a playground, a standard Four Square court is 10 feet by 10 feet divided into four smaller squares (which are 5 feet by 5 feet each). Hope that helps!
Back in my day you would show your dominance using a basketball
Usually we bounce it into our square before letting it bounce into the opponents square. It becomes to op to bounce the ball straight into the opponents square. I mean like it bounces in your square once, then you hit it into your square then opponents.
As an Australian, this game look like a scuffed version of handball, on the wiki courtyard handball.
I remember in my primary school we used to play a similar game called 'handball'. It was basically the same except with a high-bounce rubber ball about the size of a tennis ball. The kids, especially the older kids would get vicious with this game and hit the ball extremely hard, low to the ground, or into the corner of the court (or all three). The sore losers would sometimes bounce the ball extremely high.
Lisa Simpson: We were playing Four Square and I called no double tab, but Ralph double tabs. I said "you're out!" Then he says "I can do a sum-ber-salt" which has nothing to do with anything!
Heard this game mentioned on THIS IS US! I've never seen this before and I'm 74! ☺️
Me and my friends used to play a harder version of it. You couldn't use your hands, only your legs.
Never hear of this till I was watching an old tv series. I imagine it got quite heated. 😆
i remember back in middleschool we used to play this game but it was called boxball where we could only use one hand and if it hit you box twice youre out and you never rotate
Up in Mass we use to do play this all the time as a kid haha. Good memories!
Wow! This is so different. I play four square atm, and I play with roles like king, queen, etc. Plus if we hit line, we consider it a "redo" but that varies for different people. Also, I’ve always wondered, if player 1 hits the ball and it hits player 2 who is standing outside of the boundary, is player 1 out for hitting it out of bounds, or is player 2 out for getting hit even though they were outside the lines!
exactly
This is how I wish four square is, people never play fair :(
I used to play this at school but using a tennis ball.
I never heard of this until now
One more rule in this game is snake.i it isn’t a rule but it’s a game mode. If your number 4 and your playing snake.i then you can pass it to anyone with first serve and btw 2 bad serves=out. If your playing regularly then u have to pass it to square number two first.
I remember I would punch the ball as hard as I can and get someone out. Nowadays, People change the rules every second.
There's usually fighting when I play this game, I still love it though.
Me:pfft this is kids play!
Also me: *sees adults play* nvm these are "big" kids
😏
Man why are the volunteers so happy
I honestly love this game
Foursqare is one of my favorite games
In junior high we ended up implementing a rule that ended up being school wide and super popular. You play the game with your feet. This pretty much solved all arguments because it's almost impossible to purposefully chicken feet someone, cherry bomb, or accidentally hit a line. Maybe we had some disputes about lines but if you could cherry bomb, good on you bud, that's skill lol. And chicken feet doesnt matter because well... You're playing with your feet so it actually helps the opponent if you throw the ball towards their feet
Not how we played it. We have to hit in in our square before it hits another one. We use small ball can can use one hand. We have to tap it. If it hits the line we don't count in as anything. If i does, then
bounces out, we do whichever square was closest to ball.
Lol I like how they said everyone gets a “high five” I think my friends and I were a little more aggressive then that. Haha 😂
I've literally never heard of this game before. Is this only in America or Europe?
Good job nice try?????? WRONG! It's you messed up. Your out. Go to the back of the line. Stop coddling our kids. Failure is an important part of life and it must not be sugared over.
I was going to say the same thing. "Oh you got a good job nice try" what? If saying "you're out" in 4 square causes you to cry, then you need MORE reality checks, not fewer. Pretty soon everything is going to be so coddled that people will no longer say murderers and criminals but "meanie pants oopsy poopsies" and we'll no longer die but instead "move on to the magical sugar cane forest of happiness and love". It's so gross how our gutless/spineless society stoops so low, even with something as trivial as 4 square.
I remember this back at school with cheap tennis rackets and a plastic ball, We called it champ cause instead of a server then the person in 1 would serve, making him the "champ" And whoever was sitting out when he got in he would be in 4 and would have to try to get others out until he can become 1. We also had some other rules like 1 couldnt shoot towards 3 when they served and whatnot. Needless to say, when you equip competitive kids with tennis rackets and plastic balls, the result is half the year having black eyes and bruises on their cheeks. Good times.
*at my school, we have a strict p.e coach that makes the most stupid rules. you have to serve to the first square. you can't hit the ball with one hand. if it goes close the centerline then you are out. if it goes close the place that is close to the centerline then you don't have to hit the ball. the list goes on and on.*
Does anyone know the name of the game that uses those painted circles? They are at literally every outdoor court but I can’t find anything online about it
Thanks you get a good job nice try. Can you palm the ball?
Thank You! Tomorrow I am having a four square match at school
Take some of their rules, but here’s what to do instead.
1. Do *NOT* be nice. Treat it like a battlefield.
2. Argue if it hit line or not. Line also isn’t out
This ain't how we play at my school, the rules at my school are: Square one must serve at all times to square 3, if the ball hits a inner line(the ones that overlap) we re do the serve/ start over the round, if it hits an outer line(the square on the outside) then the person whose line it hit is out, if the ball goes out and it touched your square and you didn't hit it your out, we don't all rotate if someone gets out only if the person infront of you does. If someone infront of you, you and the person behind you move up a square each and a new player joins, if you hit your own square with the ball your out