With sacrament meetings starting up, I was reminiscing about games we played in sacrament meeting to pass the time, especially when they were 90 minutes long.

We played

Connect the dots
Tic tac toe
Hang man

Even did homework when the meetings were separate and sacrament was as late as 6 pm meaning we got home around 8 pm

I still remember how to make a "flea catcher" out of the sacrament program. One of the few things I remember from boring sacrament meetings.

We would turn the hymn books into scavenger hunts by writing instructions to keep turning to specified pages. Yes, we wrote in the hymn books.

Snicker. I did that too.

but I loved it if I got a hymn book that been written in with a game in it.

We played hangman and tic tac toe if we thought to bring a pen or pencil or maybe our mom had one.

BORING!

I went to a MC disService once, as an adult, and couldn't STAND the BS (boring speaker/ spiel), a steak conference, and was glad to play a new game MANY a member/ attendee wish to learn of or play: HEADPHONES!

It was GREAT! I couldn't hear a thing. The MUSIC was Worlds Better! The people behind me gave me the stink eye (I?)/ guilty-jealous-mad-envious/ I wish I could do that looks.

Might have been my looks.
I cooked the books.
I banned them...
After I burned them.

I always tried to sit in a pew behind the family or couple where the man was leaning forward with his head in his hands. Usually the wife would rest her hand on his shoulder.

Being the stinker, I would tap the man's shoulder and it would cause a stir. He would become animated and question what she wanted. She was naturally clueless and would protest her innocence. Sometimes they would be arguing with each other as soon as the closing prayer was finished.

I could do this several times during SM and boy did it make the time pass by quickly!

I also engaged in other juvenile mischief such as spitballs during primary programs on the stand and throwing paper balls at people who were pricks as ph leaders (only during the opening prayer so they would not cause a "scene").

Don't worry. I was spanked many a times at church for all my irreverence in the chapel.

My partner in crime discovered that if he leaned forward in the pew, he could swing his shoes at the bottom of the hymnbook holders and kick the bottom of the holder. A good enough kick would launch a dark blue hymnal airborne! A good game for naughty 6 year olds.

We only played this game during the singing because it drowned the obvious kicking sounds. My Mom finally caught me and slugged my legs~ her signal to cut it out. I persisted and got dragged out of SM when the song stopped.

My buddy also got dragged out by his mom too. Being the organist on the stand, she watched him misbehaving and had to wait for her to walk down and grab his wrist to go into the women's restroom for a good spanking.

I hated SM..almost as much as I hated F&T.

Staying awake was one helluva game

Writing “in bed” after every hymn title:
PRAISE TO THE MAN...in bed.
COME COME YE SAINTS...in bed.

You look through the hymn book and after the title of each hymn, you add "...in the bathtub."

Spare a thought for the kids who have merely had to tolerate a Zoom SM over the past year. Imagine how they are going to feel when they are back in the meetinghouse. Off-topic I joined a Zoom SM last Sunday. One of the older members of the ward had tuned in, had muted the sound but not the camera. She had a great time during the meeting... watching TV. I guess she will be taken to task by the ministering brethren!