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It was a game?! I just put the bugs together. o_0 I vividly remember trying to get the legs to stick into the body segements with my not-so-fine moter skills.
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somewhere in the dark corners of my mind, I remember actually playing this game once maybe twice. The rest of my childhood was spent just putting the little bugs together and taking them apart.
That is not the original packaging! Mine didn’t have Mr. Potatohead faces like that. I think there were dice, and you rolled for body parts. The object was to get the bug built first. but getting enough legs was always a pain.
Weren’t all these games supposed to teach sharing and cooperation? I also remember playing Ants in the Pants.
I seem to remember that the faces were molded into the heads. But you had antennae that had to be attached.
Cooties is also supposed to help little ones work on their manual dexterity.
Yes, there were two antennae and the curly tongue. We always played this game for real except we lost too many pieces (mostly legs).
And we always played this in conjunction with Ants in the Pants, too!
They should have included a picture of the 80’s cooties game. I played that one a lot growing up and now play the current version (the one pictured) with my three year old. The 80’s version wasn’t so bulbous, the body piece tapered and the heads were ant like.
My brother still has these…and I might occasionally play with them. You know, for old times’ sake.
I remember the game, but then with a ladybird on a leaf, where you had to roll the dice to get all parts
They should try to find the “old school” bugs. It had a curly tongue, remember? It used to drive me nuts that half the legs would keep falling out…
Oh, that was a tongue? I thought it was supposed to be an antennae…guess that explains why I could never find the other one. *facepalm*
uhmmm.. what’s that?
*dies of shock*
I remember the old Cootie game!
Yeah, the new version is different. The pieces are all “kid-friendly and wacky-shaped”.
On my old game, the legs were just L-shaped, and the eyes were just circles, and it had a curly tonge, and hockey-stick antennae.
Victoria Miller is right: you had to roll the die to get the body parts. A different number for each type of part; body, head, legs, anennae, eyes, and tongue. Yeah, by the time it came to getting all 6 legs, I was frustrated and cranky!
I actually have the original cootie game (pre-patent) the game comes with a normal die.
Two to four players
you HAVE TO GET THE PIECES IN ORDER, NO SKIPPING FROM BODY TO ALL THE LEGS!
Step1-Roll the dice until you get a 1, then select a body. This will be the base of your cootie.
Step2-Take the die and roll a 2. This allows you to select one of the head pieces.
Step3-Try to roll two 3’s. Each roll will allow you to add an eye piece to your cootie.
Step4-Choose a nose for your cootie after you roll a 4.
Step5-Add an antenna to your cootie’s head after you roll a 5. Do this twice.
Step6-Get a 6 on your next roll, and add a leg to the body. Repeat this last step five times until your cootie is complete.
This sounds like the version we (my siblings and I) had as kids.
Except that instead of a cube-shaped die, ours had a six-sided top that you spun with your fingers.
My brother always constructed his Cooties with one back leg tipped up, like it was peeing. My brother has a weird sense of humor.
i too did this haha…my dad used to be a truck driver and we lived in iowa…fireworks except large special event ones were illegal…so hed go to missouri and when he came back we would go through all our old toys and see what blew up cool…cootie ALWAYS went out awesomely, parts everywhere…ooooh black cat firecrackers! now thats a win!
My sis had this game. I would play it with her. Good times….I want to play again.
This is the one I had as a kid.
Oops. Sorry about that. Here it is:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/253587
now i wanna play all these games. don’t break the ice, don’t spill the beans, cootie… man.
Yes, yes yes! I must have played Don’t Break The Ice a million times. (I even played it pass the age recomended-just for laughs)
I had Don’t Spill The Beans but I never played it right. The beans always ended up in my toy truck or my mouth.
I used to LOVE Don’t Break the Ice!!
My grandma and I just gave up with rolling dice and stuff and would just make an army of cootie-bugs for fun.
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sometimes we still do it. XD For old time’s sake.
My grandmother had a ton of games that my sister and I would play with whenever my mother got sick of us and dropped us off. This was a favorite. We also really enjoyed Monopoly and Parcheesi. Good times.
I played with them at my grandparents’ house too. I think SOMETIMES my sister and I actually played with the rules, but most of the time…*shrug*
Creepy toy.
Is anybody else here from DC? I remember the Giant Cootie from the Capital Children’s Museum there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyfaye/2516993040/
I put these all over my bike at Burning Man last year!!!
I remember telling my friends husband about cooties. He’d never heard of cooties before. He thought it was a kind of STD!
I lol’d my ass off at that.
OMG lost piece of my childhood uncovered. thank you.
I’m 14 and i remember that game!! i loved it sooo much. Like most people, i never really played by the rules. I also had an older sister to play with me, and we would fight over who got the girl eyes…