Kid's games in Glasgow?

[Dennis]

Hi:),

Does anybody remember a game, using marbles I think, possibly called 'bools' ?


maybe I;m losing mine:) dennis

[Falkyrn]

Marbles themselves used to be called Bools in my neck of the woods and there were a number of games involving them - mainly trying to knock your opponents marbles out of a circle

[WilmaM]

or knock them off the holes in a square stank.

I can't remember the rules now but I did play that until our friend's mum stopped as it was 'unhygenic'!

[Russell]

I'm an east coaster and we played with 'Jauries' and 'Steelies' trying to get closest to the centre of a circle drawn in the earth or dust.
Another game involved putting your best 'jaurie' into the circle and your oponents tried to knock it out of the circle shooting their marbles using their thumb to propel them. You had the advantage as your best marble was usually the biggest one you had and they had to use the smaller, more common variety.
Jauries were originally the round, glass stoppers in the neck of carbonated drinks bottles and were plain glass but by my young days in the 1940's decorative 'proper' marbles were available.
Steelies were steel ball bearings.
Russell

[johnniegarve]

There was a game called moshie, but I forget the script!

[paddyscar]

Here's a description:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/393637/moshie

And other games
http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/mlgames.htm

Frances

[johnniegarve]

Wee done paddyscar, the holes were dug with somebody's Maws spoon as I recall!