[Cz-L] emigrating games

Hardy and Bruce et al,

Even as a young girl I too used to play that game, at summer camp, in
the late 40's and early 50's. It was exciting to handle a knife,
propelling it in somersaults from hand or fist or off your fingers,
then marking off your territory and securing it by scratching your
initials into the dirt in the section you'd claimed by throwing the
knife so it would land with its point down. My parents would never
let me have a knife at home, but maybe if my father had seen me
playing what we called "mumbledypeg" he would have recognized it and
shared something of his own childhood experiences (something he never
did)! Also, Hardy, the earlier game you described, Buttons, has been
played in the U.S. for years but known by the name of "Tiddly Winks".
Unfortunately we never had the creative experience you did, as our
game came already in a box, and was all made of thin plastic colored
circles. The largest one is used like your special one, to flip the
small ones, but into a plastic cup. So again, games from the past
morph into the future and somehow they circle the globe, but like so
many other modern versions of things, everything is pre-made,
regulated in size and shape, the rules are written inside the box,
and although there is fun still, there is neither "romance" or the
thrill that comes from using one's imagination. Thanks for your memories!

Jessica Falikman Attiyeh,
San Diego, California

>Subject: [Cz-L] Re: Messerlech
>From: ajs1pres_at_aol.com
>Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:37:07 -0500
>X-Message-Number: 1
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>Hardy et al,
>
>The game you describe with the small knives is a game I used to play as
>a boy in the 1950's. We called it "territory". Now hearing your
>description, I wonder if it was brought here by ancestors; my
>grandfather Harry DORF. But alas, we can no longer ask him.
>
>Bruce WExler
>Jackson, NJ
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