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Share this article via comment Share this article via facebook Share this article via twitter. More Stories. Today's Best Discounts. Get us in your feed Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter. Knock on the door and stand in the garden as if you were gnomes and stay still, and the first person to run has to knock on the next door Posted by Anon Tie fishing line to the knocker run and hide and pull the line and watch the person come out then pull it again if you dare.

You can tie three knockers at a time and hide then pull so three doors knock at the same time. Posted by Anon And the perpetual motion version where you tie two knockers together and knock on the first door, when they close their door the other knocker knocks ad infinitum.

Posted by David - Essex Tie cotton or fishing rope to a door knocker and hide behind the car or bush and pull about 15 times and they come to the door like "wtf" and your sitting there laughing your head off.

Back around I lived on a large council estate in Sheffield where we used to refer to 'knock-and-run' as 'Thunder and Lightning' - we'd knock like thunder and run like lightening. My mate, Andy, came up with a more sinister version where he would steal eggs from his mother's pantry. One of our number, a foolhardy young lad called Jim, would be persuaded to knock on someone's door then hide in their garden.

When the 'victim' came to the door we would pelt them with eggs - then run. Jim would make good his escape when things quietened down.

This version didn't last too long as Andy's mother read the riot act about the disappearing eggs - if kids did that to me I'd have a siezure. Jw We use to tie cotton thread to the door knocker and then tie the other end to the front door on the opposite side of the road. Wait for a car drive past and break the cotton and then laugh in hysterics when both owners open the door and look at each other.

Andy I grew up in Southampton and everyone referred to it as 'knock and run'. I've since moved to Hertfordshire for work and everyone says it's called 'knock down ginger' and are confused by the name I give it! Knock and run explains the entire premise, knock down ginger makes no sense.

Cool dude Me and my freind play it lots. We call it knock n nash. We choose doors with door bells because it is louder and then we hide as close to the door as possible. Just dont get caught. Anyone who would hurt kids for playing this is a muppet. We certainly weren't 'Chavs'. We were just kids. And it's a totally harmless game.

Jake Me n my mates were playin last night at like half 8 n my mate calls it gardern noming coz he just lays on the grass wen we nok n the person at the door goes crazy lol Sue from London Knock Down Ginger was the funniest game ever when I was a kid - I loved it!

One person was blindfolded and than led to a front door, of course you were led to the door of the angriest person you knew, you were placed in front of the door with your back to it, then your mates would hide usually around the corner and shout "white horse kick", you had to kick the door a hard as you could, rip off the blindfold and run like hell.

Another was to tie two knockers together and watch them struggle to open the door, the scary bit was to get your strings back as quick as you could because they would be waiting behind the door, as you can guess most of my contemporaries were very good athletes in the following years. The Font My grandad born in told me he and his mates used to tie a thread from one door-knocker to the next in a zigzag pattern down the street.

Then they'd knock on the first door. When that was opened it would pull the next knocker, breaking the thread and knocking on the second door. This would continue all the way down the street. It's great thinking back on all the things we used to get up to. Although we were probably annoying little pests to the homeowners, at least we weren't hurting anybody or taking drugs. I wish I could go back and do it all over again.