Our cat is basically fearless and gets bored easily. We like closing doors in our house upstairs to keep the temperature of the house more stable. Naturally when she is in one of those rooms we don’t want to lock her in so we try to get her out. She made that into a game of chase combined with hide and seek. Eventually that grew into a game she’d initialize throughout the whole house where she’d randomly fake-lunge at us and then sprint off. Or she’d hide behind a corner to ambush us. Sometimes we’d chase her. At other times we’d run away and hide and she’d come to find us and once she found us she’d run away again.

Problem is we’d be done playing after 5 minutes. She’d want to go on for 30 minutes at least. Anyway, she doesn’t initialize anymore since we got her a kitty friend. Now she plays a similar game with him that will sometimes go on for an hour at a time.

My cat will bring a toy down the stairs to us and stare and meow until we play with her. It’s absolutely heart melting and impossible to refuse. She also (at 7 lbs) will bring slippers, toques, huge rolls of yarn, and toys up to the bedroom at night. Unfortunately for her we do not play since we are sleeping.

One of my cats, despite being an extreme clinger, absolutely will not tolerate being picked up under any circumstance.

Lone exception? If there’s a bug she wants but can’t reach, she will meow until I come lift her up to catch it. One hand under her hind legs, one under her stomach - so she has both front paws free to pin the bug with. Fortunately, she’ll let me summon her too, so whenever there’s a moth or something hanging out on the ceiling, I yell “bug” and the cat comes running to catch it for me.

Right ol’ on-demand vacuum cleaner, that one.

My bathroom was right at the top of a long staircase. When I’d be putting makeup on in the morning, Gilligan would bring me one of the small sponge balls from the living room and drop it just inside the door. I’d flick it down the stairs and he’d leap down 2-3 stairs at a time, find the ball and bring it back for the next round. He’d do it over and over again, every day. Miss that boy. Great post!

My cat loves to play red light green light. This is something he started on his own and it’s exactly like how we played as kids.

We could be watching TV or doing anything really, he’ll peek around the doorway waiting until we notice him, sometimes “chirping” a little if we don’t notice, we turn and look away, look back, he’s moved a little closer holding completely still and staring at us, this goes on until he finally reaches us and lets out a playful meow and plops to the ground for belly rubs.

We can also start the game ourselves if we make eye contact with him and start looking away back and forth to get it started.

I taught my boi to meow at me when I come around a corner or pop out from behind a door frame. Kinda like our version of peekaboo.

If my cat is chilling somewhere and I walk by I’ll do a fist bump and he will head butt my knuckles.

Open hand pays no attention

Not a game per se, “Hugs and Kisses.” My cat had to go on a special diet for a few months. I put down her morning food, and she balked at the change. I was leaving for work and feeling like I should stick with her for the day. So I grabbed her, gave her a kiss on the head and, in a silly voice, said “Hugs and kisses, HUGS AND KISSES!” I put her down and she ate her food.

From that point forward, she wouldn’t eat her food unless I did the hugs and kisses thing. It had to be the full dance, the same voice, or she wouldn’t eat.

I think my cat knows it’s a game when I put my hand under the blanket and swish around on the sheets. He especially likes it when the hand reaches over the side of the bed and he can see it move partially and hears that sound of hand swishes across a sheet.

His eyes widen up and he slouches down in attack mode and waits for the kill. But he’s gentle when he goes in for the kill, only grabbing on and then letting go. I give him some scratches and grab him up to hug him close as I scratch him all over his head as a reward.

My cat and I play tag. She’ll run up to me and just as she grazes me, turns around and bolts the other way. Then she hides behind a curtain or her tunnel until I chase her down and play with her

My cat likes to jump onto my balls while I am fast asleep at 4am and then walk up my body to meow directly in my face before she shakes her head violently and gets little cold droplets of drool all over me.

It’s just lovely.

I’ve started “trapping” her under the blanket and wrapping my body around her. She enjoys it for a few minutes before she’s trying to escape at which point she leaves me alone until my alarm goes off.

Me and my cat like to bring each other the successful kills from our hunts, but unlike my cat I stick to my species…

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I think one of the more funny spontaneous games that I have seen someone come up with their cat was they found out their cat loves to bat around wine corks on their wooden floor, so they got a big jar of wine corks and occasionally would throw one onto the floor and the cat would launch off like a rocket, batting at it and bouncing it off the walls.

I have seen that kind of thing before with a cat batting an object and chasing it as it richoted across a room, but the wine corks just worked SO well and this cat really really really loved chasing them.

Ohhh, we play the bathrobe rope tie too! He likes to play fetch with crumbled receipts, hide my slippers, and sometimes work on adobe audition although sometimes it gets boring.

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