Whether called Iguni, Abhadho, Cincos Marias, or Huripapa, jacks is one of the oldest and most widespread games in the world. All jacks games share a strategy: toss a ball in the air and scoop up pieces before the ball bounces. In this game of skill, almost any collection of small objects will work—beans, rocks, stones, and even bones. Throughout history, kids in virtually every culture on the globe have sat cross-legged and played some version of the game. Cro-Magnon parents may have encouraged their children to play jacks on cave floors, to increase the eye-hand coordination vital to later success at hunting. Kids in ancient Egypt played “knucklebones” with sheep toe bones. The game of knucklebones led to dice games for boys, and jacks, usually played with a wooden ball, for girls. In modern times, kids followed a bouncing rubber ball. The game inspired popular children’s songs such as “This Old Man” (he played one, he played two, and so on). Classic American versions of jacks include Eggs in the Basket, Pigs in the Pen, Jacks on the Rooftop, Five Finger, and Challenge.
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Nothing's more fun than a game of marbles with friends. You can join in on this classic pastime as long as you have a friend, some chalk, and plenty of marbles to compete with. You can play a traditional game of marbles or try out a less-familiar variant, like Bulls Eye or Cherry Pit. High Low Jack, also known as Hi Low Jack and Pitch, is played with a standard 52-card deck. Partnership, the most commonly played version of the game, places players in teams of two that score points collectively. Varieties include Cutthroat, in which each player scores points individually, and Nine Card, which deals.
Twosies and threesies were okay, but if you really wanted to be named playground princess, sixies and sevensies were almost always required. What is the legal age to gamble.
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It’s said that Jacks have origins in ancient counting games, but they started to captivate American kids around the turn of the twentieth century. The balls weren’t rubber back then, but the object was still the same: pour the spiky jacks (usually ten, twelve or fourteen of them) out onto the ground, toss the ball in the air, then pick up as many jacks as you can before the ball touches back down on terra firma. If you’re playing with a red rubber ball, you have before that devilish bouncer touches down twice.
Oh, it wasn't as easy as it sounds—especially since all of this is done with one hand. And that, asphalt allies, was just round one. After everyone in your circle of friends had a turn picking up the jacks one at a time, the next step was to pick them up two at a time, then three at a a time, and so on. Depending on how tough the kids in the circle were feeling, if a player skipped a number or touched a jack that she didn’t pick up, her turn was over. And when it was her turn again, she may just have had to start back at the beginning, picking them up one at a time.
The rules varied, and in some games, it was necessary to yell the names of moves out mid-game, making Jacks not just a test of hand-eye coordination test, but of verbal skill as well. “Haystacks,” “Cart Before the Horse,” “Interference” and “Split Jack” were just some of them (and don’t ask us what they mean, ask the girls).
When the game was over, you put your Jacks (or your Jumbo Jacks—extra big for easier handling) in their pouch or their can and called it a day. Hopefully, the imaginary playground princess crown was yours, at least until the next match.
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