edit: HANDBALL!

[timepiececlock]

Did anyone ever play that game when you're a kid with the large rubber balls that's basically like four-square, except you play against a wall wiht only two people, maybe 3 tops?

And you had to bounce it once before it hit the wall and it could only bounce once coming back before you hit it-- if it bounced twice or just went past you entirely you lost a point. And it was really hard-core with little tournaments and play-offs and stuff. And there were rules like "no cross-country" (i.e. no deliberately bouncing it to the opposite corner of the wall so your opponent would have to run the length of the wall to get to it and probably hit it out) and other stuff.

And then teachers or other people come out and yell at you to stop banging against their walls. Anyone else play that? What was it called anyway?

Edit: I jsut spent about 20 minutes on google trying to find a name for this game or even a description, and I've found nothing. The closest seems to be rules on Foursquare and rules about dodgeball with people lined up against the wall (which we played too, but to a lesser extent as it was somewhat violent.)

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[slacker-97.livejournal.com]

I did play that, and I played it poorly. Or maybe everyone always cheated. Yeah that's it, they cheated. Those cheaters!

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

Sounds like wally-ball. Or at least, that's what my PE teacher called it. he was a big fan.

[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

Wall Ball! But we played it with a tennis ball and like 15 kids and one of the lunch aids stood out of the way and umpired. Because we were hard core. We had outs -- if the ball touched you coming off the wall and you didn't catch it, or if you threw the ball and it missed the wall, you had to run up and touch the wall before whoever did catch it could hit the wall with the ball again. If the ball beat you to the wall 3 times, you were out of the game. It was when the games was down to a few people that "no cross-country" got yelled at a lot -- I'd actually forgotten that rule, but when I read it in your post I heard like 5 kids scream it in my head. Good times, man.

[vrya.livejournal.com]

I think we called it handball. We never had the compaint issue because we played against the cinderblock walls surrounding the dumpsters rather than walls of occupied buildings. Of course, that brought up the whole dumpster-diving issue when a ball went astray...

[evemac.livejournal.com]

ACEBALL.

I think Aceball was the Bay Area name.

Wallyball is some strange east coast thing.

Or I could be going crazy.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

We called that "handball". There was a "no waterfalls" rule (if it hit the top of the wall and came straight down, it was out), something about "no babies" (no mini-bounces), and a lot of other complicated stuff. I remember everyone would like up to play it before school started, and the rubber balls would make wet marks on the walls.

I dunno if it has any relation to the "team handball" they play at the Olympics - from what I've seen and read, the only thing they share is a name.

[nessie-cakes.livejournal.com]

We called it "Su-y" kinda like the sound a pig makes, which is how it also got its other name: Piggy.

Same concept, slightly different rules. If they missed the ball, we pegged them with it. Generally a tennis ball was used, and there wasn't a point system. I rocked at that game, but man, those kids did not hold back when they pegged others. Used to hurt like Hell.