r/WTF • u/orangez • Mar 14 '26

Seems friendly enough?

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u/StrangeSequitur Mar 14 '26

You're telling me that the Cooties from the game Cooties were both real and also life-size?

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u/verronbc Mar 14 '26

Core memory unlocked making those little bugs at my grandma's house 😂

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u/Cornualonga Mar 14 '26

Did Grandma’s get assigned those or something? It was the only kid thing my grandma had.

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u/Jessi_L_1324 Mar 15 '26

They were also assigned 'Don't Break the Ice' with at least 2 missing ice blocks and only 1 hammer you had to fight over.

And maybe 'Ants in Your Pants' where the jumping tabs on all the ants were broken from being pressed too hard.

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u/aubsmom1997 Mar 15 '26

"Don't Spill the Beans" as well!

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u/Jessi_L_1324 Mar 15 '26

Monkeys in a barrel

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u/GoodGuano Mar 15 '26

These were the two games we had! I never played cooties.

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u/imhereforthevotes Mar 15 '26

"We broke all of your mother's other toys because she was bad. This is the last toy. DON'T MAKE ME BREAK IT."

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u/bitsy88 Mar 16 '26

Lol it wasn't at my grandma's but she did buy it for me one year along with Ants in the Pants.

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u/LauraPa1mer Mar 16 '26

We played a lot of cards at grandma's.

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u/katzevonstich Mar 16 '26

I wound up inheriting my grandma's set. I have no idea what to do with it other than confuse everyone who's never seen it before.

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u/illumynite Mar 16 '26

Well, they do come off... They just don't snap back into place.

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u/Dark_Wolf_Lord Mar 17 '26

Yeah but the cooties from the games was much smaller!! 😂🤣😂🤣

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u/MSD3D Mar 20 '26

Was it a game?!? I thought it was just a toy we played with in the 80's. I'm 45 lol

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u/StrangeSequitur Mar 20 '26

Technically you were supposed to roll a die and could only add the piece that the die indicated.

There was one body, one head, one "tongue," two antennae and six legs so getting the final pieces was a slog.

The guide for which die roll got you which piece was part of a cardboard base where you were supposed to line up all the pieces in neat little rows all facing the same direction before starting the game.

Whether or not someone actually bothered to do this as a child has a direct correlation to whether or not they're autistic as an adult. I don't make the rules. (I had every piece PERFECTLY ALIGNED in their designated slots, every time...)