4-square is a game with infinite possible options of rules and special modes. What were some you grew up with?

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    8 days ago

    long game - for the first 3 hits, you weren’t allowed to cherry bomb

    long game forevermore - can’t cherry bomb this round

    no bobbling - bobbling is where you would repeatedly “juggle” the ball with one hand since holding the ball wasn’t allowed

    nice and easy - nothing resembling a hard hit allowed

    I’m sure there was more that I’m not remembering. It was up to the king to declare which special rules they wanted to play with that round before they served. “Long game forevermore and all that crap” was used to declare a standard set of special rules most of us would use, but you had to pay attention since it wasn’t always declared. Rule breaking was a regular thing, but would slide if it was done in a funny way or if the other 3 didn’t like the person who got out.