Starting Your Marble Collection

Alley - Is Your best marble. It will most likely be your mosr expensive marble.

Aggie - Marble Made from Agate

Cat's Eyes - Glass marbles made with an injection of color added to them. If done right, they actually look like a cat's eye.

Marrididdles - Clay Marbles made by hand at home. These were made by kids many years ago. They are not made often now that you can buy marbles very cheaply.

Shooter - Larger Marble, the one you used to shoot with.

Taw - Is you best Shooter. This is the one you have becoe friends with because it has won you many games. This is the one you will probably make the rule in the game that you will not give up to you opponent. You will gladly give them another marble in it's place. This rule has to be stated before the game begins to keep things fair.

They way we always played the game of marbles was to draw a circle. Then we placed all our common marbles into the circle We usually just let them drop and land where they wanted to. If any fell out of the circle, we would pick them up and drop them back in.)

Then we would choose who would go first by eith flipping a coin or shooting a marble towards the rind. Whoever got closest to the ring without going over went first.

We would take turns trying to shoot the common marbles out of the ring. When we shot one out of the ring, we kept it. Then the next person went. (Sometimes we used the rule if you got one out, you got a second turn. This would give the person with the better skills an advantage.)

When all the marbles were hit out of the ring, whoever had the most won the game. Usually when we played, we were using only one person's marbles, so we didn'y play for keeps. I have heard of people bringing their own marbles and leaving with the marbles they hit out of the rind. If they left with more marbles than they came with, that was the gamble made when you play marbles.