hist-games: Mumbly Peg

[Bob O'Neill]

At 10:33 AM 9/2/97 -0500, Heather Garvey wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 bjm10 at cornell.edu wrote:
>
>>M--[whatever] peg, as I played it whilst in grade school had two 
>>versions...
>>The sane version...
>	Umm, the one I learned was a little crazier. You knelt on the
>ground (or I suppose you can stand...) and then balanced the knife on 
>its point on your finger, trying to flip it into the ground point first. 
>If you did, you got to move on to the wrist, the elbow, the shoulder, the 
>chin, and back down the other side. If you didn't stick, your turn was 
>over. First one to get up one side and down the other won. 

In Brooklyn in the 1940's there were two versions: 
	1) The lead-in game (grade school) was the balance and flip game (Finger,
wrist, elbow, shoulder, etc.)
	2) The REAL game (high school) got your foot involved - whoever got the
knife closer to their own foot won.
(Of course, we had "sturdy" shoes in those days!!)
Bob


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