Marbles
Actually
I never can remember playing marbles although I did collect them for
a short while. I think marbles was basically a boy's game.
Marbles
were small round balls about 1” to 2 “ in diameter that had
started off in ancient times as little clay or mud balls that were
used to be played in all kinds of invented games. They even found
some in the pyramid tombs in Egypt.
By the time I collected them they
were usually made of pretty colored glass or even ceramics. Mike says
the most valuable ones were made of steel and were ball bearings and
were much to be desired when you were playing a game. I guess they
were that way because they were in short supply after the war.
The
games seem to be played in many different ways. One way a game is
played where the kids gather around a circle that is drawn on the
earth and a marble is placed in the middle and then turns are taken
to knock it out. The other way Mike says he played , was along the
gutters of the road usually on the way home from school. You would
again go in turns trying to knock the other players marble and I
guess if you did so you would win it.
” Onesis”
were 1inch marbles and so I guess “twosis” were 2inch marbles. I
am sure a lot of the fun was in collecting , exchanging and trading
marbles as well as playing the game for both boys and girls
I
think the girls liked them as they were really pretty especially the
big glass ones with the swirling patterns inside which makes me
wonder” whatever did happened to my marbles”.
The
phrase,” I think I've lost my marbles”. comes to mind.
I did
find one interesting marbles game you could play on a computer if you
want to try it.
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