As a kid, you accept the games around the house, mainly ones your parents thought would be acceptable time passers. Trouble, Connect Four, or Checkers were probably three of the more common place board games. Mousetrap and Chutes and Ladders also had a place in the house.

Then there were the games you thought were fun but when looked back upon bring up quite a few questions. Don’t Wake Daddy gets the nod in today’s Pastime of the Day. For a few reasons, one being that this game was awesome. Two is that you never really questioned why you didn’t want to wake daddy except that you lose. Was daddy just home from the bar, drunk, and needed his rest? If you woke him was he going to beat mommy? Was he going to make you do your homework? I believe the creator of this infamous game had a dad that did not want to be woken, for if he did wake his dad, he ended up with a black eye, before being shipped off to military school. Oh but, he got his revenge! This game became a multi-million dollar hit! Now, if only they made a sequal with a spring releasing fist to make the loser truly walk away the loser.