Padiddle, perdiddle, padoodle, and even wilder variants all belong to the same car game: spot a vehicle with one headlight out and claim the point, slap the ceiling, or, in older versions, collect a kiss. Kurt from Philadelphia grew up with one...
Caitlin from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grew up calling the children’s message-passing game Whisper Down the Lane, but classmates knew it as Whisper Down the Alley, Telephone, or Broken Telephone. No firm U.S. regional boundary is known, although...