{"id":58115,"date":"2019-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/58115\/8-games-you-love-from-your-lebanese-childhood"},"modified":"2019-07-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T00:00:00","slug":"8-games-you-love-from-your-lebanese-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/58115\/8-games-you-love-from-your-lebanese-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Games You Love From Your Lebanese Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s throwback time and we\u2019re remembering our favorite games from our Lebanese childhood. Do these ring a bell?<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbs.gfycat.com\/GloomyRipeCondor-small.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b> 1. Ghamida<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  It\u2019s the game your cousins beg you to play now. The count is to 30 and you\u2019ll always end up in your closet or in the bathtub in the last seconds.<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 2. Thief Police (police voleur)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leofugazza.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/7201.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  It was the typical game during long recesses and everyone got to class late and all sweaty. Which team were you on?<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 3. Black Room (chambre noire)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  We still suffer from PTSD from this crazy ass game.<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 4. Beit Byout<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Oh, the fantasy of one day owning a house embodied in this game (like it&#8217;s ever going to happen)<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 5. Doctor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbs.gfycat.com\/AcrobaticAfraidIvorybackedwoodswallow-small.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  That\u2019s low-key the creepiest game ever.<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 6. Ensan hayawen chay2<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  We bet you still can\u2019t find an animal that starts with N. <\/p>\n<p>  <b> 7. Singstar for Karaoke<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/ni7uQ7e0m4A92\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Yes, we proudly sang our hearts out to Britney Spears\u2019 Toxic when we were 12. No big deal.<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 8. Harb<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  The card game that never really ends but also the perfect outlet to kill some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s throwback time and we\u2019re remembering our favorite games from our Lebanese childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":439573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-58115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[108],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>8 Games You Love From Your Lebanese Childhood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s throwback time and we\u2019re remembering our favorite games from our 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