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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI still have my marbles,
used to play on the Bobtown School playground!
Winning in Marbles
The player with the most marbles at the end of the game is the winner.
Other options/rules:
If a player knocks the other player's shooter from the circle, then the shooter wins all the player's marbles they have won so far and that player is out of the game.
You can choose to play where the shooter marble is removed from the circle at the end of each turn.
Marble terminology
Taw - shooter marble. It's usually a heavier marble than the ones in the center so it can knock them out of the circle.
Mibs or Kimmies - the marbles in the center of the circle.
Friendlies - games where the marbles are returned to the original owner at the end.
Bombing - when marbles are dropped onto other marbles rather than shot.
Lagging - shooting or rolling the marble to a line to determine who gets to go first.
Mibster - marble player
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I still have my marbles, (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Jun 2019
OP
I see you've got catseyes, aggies, clearies, milkies and calicos but no steelies.
TygrBright
Jun 2019
#2
I had a steelie shooter that won me a lotta marbles... those were the days. n/t
TygrBright
Jun 2019
#5
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. Nice. Used to have a nice collection fron circa 1920.
TygrBright
(20,763 posts)2. I see you've got catseyes, aggies, clearies, milkies and calicos but no steelies.
Of course, SOME players say steelies are cheating.
But not me.
reminiscently,
Bright
kentuck
(111,104 posts)4. Unless the "steelies" were the size of a baseball...
TygrBright
(20,763 posts)5. I had a steelie shooter that won me a lotta marbles... those were the days. n/t
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)6. "no steelies."
rust!
kentuck
(111,104 posts)3. Which one was your "taw"?
We used to put marbles in a square (called a fattie) and played by the same rules except your taw had to stay outside the "fattie".