Ever Play Mumbledy Peg?

[Ken Cook]

I saw something in another thread that made me think of this.

I don't know if kids today still play the game, but I suspect it's probably not much competition for PlayStation.

I haven't played the game in years, but now that it occurs to me, I think I'm going to try and talk some buddies into it this weekend!

I'm kind of hesitant to describe the rules of the game here. The last thing I need is to be sued by the irate parent of a kid with a hole in his foot and splinters in his teeth.

But I was wondering how many other "Mumbledy Peg Veterans" we have at BFC?

Give your age and the last time you played too!
(If you can remember that far back!)

 

[OwenM]

I'm 30, and it's probably been at least 15 years (maybe 20?) since I played it.
Still have all my toes...'course now I have a Playstation

 

[J. MacDonald]

Sorry, but I always dodged out of this game and "Chicken". I was always a go for broke kind of kid (many scars to illustrate the point) but even at 10 couldn't se my way clear to try this one. That was back when I still believed that any knife, with the right technique, could be a throwing knife. Even a Thrifty Drug Store stockman. Couldn't understand why they became loose or bent. Afterall, they were made of Steel right???

Mumbledy Peg seems to me like the arrow in the apple on your son's head from across the yard kind of thing. William Tell? It might work, but the odds are against you.

My opinion again,

jmx

 

[nifrand]

Played many,many times.1948-1955?????
Case stockman,knife of choice.

 

[JamesA]

I've got a feeling I'm going to be a bit out of place...

I'm nineteen. Last time I played was seven years ago.

 

[fudo]

I played many times, back in the '60's

 

[david allen]

Yes back in early to mid sixties. im 48 and yes i missed the target a couple of times my foot can attest to it !. some of the dumb things we do as kids AMAZING!!!!!!./

 

[GigOne]

Went around the neighborhood, recently, bangin' on screen doors in a attempt to get some of the neighborhood guys (ya know. . .no girls can play mumbley peg) to come out and play a round or 2. . .

How disheartening. . .to be told, by all their wives, that their husbands were too busy to come out and play right now. Several even got nasty. . .asked me if, "my Mom knew that I was out playin' games with sharp pointy things !"

Man, I didn't know that you could poke someone's eye out while playin' mumbley peg !

I'm now restricted. . .to the back yard

 

[hardheart]

Could someone lend me a quarter, I need to buy a clue.

 

[nifrand]

Yes those were the bygone days? We live in F/U times.Really bothers me about young people not being raised with knives in their lives.

 

[komondor]

I didn't know mumbldypeg had anything to do with the feet. I thought mumbldypeg was that game where you spread the fingers of your hand out as far as they go, on a table or bar, and then proceed to stab the table, going in between each finger. As you proceed, you keep going faster and faster.

I've played this a few times.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

As a kid my friends and I played mumbley peg almost every day. I took great pride in the fact that I won most of the time. That game taught you to be very skillful with a knife and helped me when I later got into throwing knives.

 

[PhilL]

Originally posted by komondor
I didn't know mumbldypeg had anything to do with the feet. I thought mumbldypeg was that game where you spread the fingers of your hand out as far as they go, on a table or bar, and then proceed to stab the table, going in between each finger. As you proceed, you keep going faster and faster.

I've played this a few times.

That's not Mumbley Peg, that's Chicken...This is Mumbley Peg.

http://www.kudu.net/outdoor/summer/games/mumbly_peg.htm

I haven't played in 40 years and looking back it all seems kind of Huck Finn or like the Little Rascals now, but those were great times. My Mom would send me out the door after breakfast and not want to see me again until dinner, (lunch was optional). None of this organized or supervised activities for kids. No helmets for bikes or baseball, or any safety equipment come to think of it. It was like a way of culling from the herd the terminally stupid or really uncoordinated. I think we go to far too much trouble to protect kids today. Oh well so much for the survival of the fittest.

 

[J. MacDonald]

I was guilty of playing Chicken even if I didn't play Mumbldey Peg and I think we coddle the kids today a bit too much.

jmx

 

[DBH]

Now, I am 29, and I played Mumbldey peg about seven years ago as well. Now with Chicken , I have been stupid since I played this a few months ago. Not very fast, but it brought back a bad memory. My older brother (who is a doctor now ) when we were much younger held my hand under ac utting board after watching "Aliens" and proceeded to play chicken. The knife went through the side of his middle finger, and went through the side of my middle finger all the way to the cutting board. Now, I was bleeding, he was bleeding, and my mom was yelling after she gothome from the grocery. Now, that was stupid and painful (the scar is apleasant reminder). But, did I play it since? Yes. Lust with my hand only.

 

[one2gofst]

Played with my friend Ben about 5 years ago. Playing anything Ben wants to play should have been my first warning since Ben is crazier than anyone I know. But, we played and it ended OK. KNife of choice, a Keen Kutter stockman that was dull as hell and older than me. It threw well though. Probably a good thing I did not get hit since Ben was playing with a Buck 110 style knife, but bigger. This things blade had to be 5 inches and weigh a couple pounds.

 

[david allen]

Sorry for the screwup guys. It was Chicken that i played, had those old high top basketball tennis shoes on when i didnt move out of the way fast enough! Also played mumbley peg just got them mixed up thanks David

 

[Walt2]

Just about all the boys played mumbly peg when I was a kid. I'm 64 and the last time I played it was probably when I was around 15 or 16 yrs. old.

 

[samhell]

I never played Mumbledy Peg but when I was in 2nd to 7th grade we would play stretch(sometimes called splits) during recess. Teachers never showed any concern over us playing and I can't remember any major injuries. This was at a small N.E. Texas school(k-12 less than 200 students) during the late 70's to early 80's. I believe I used some kind of barlow knife and later a buck 110 during these games. Good times. Things sure have changed for kids in such a short time.

 

[TorzJohnson]

We played what we called Mumbley Peg but it was a completely bastardized game that involved nothing more than throwing knives at each other's feet and seeing who could stick it closest to the other guy's foot without hitting it.

Bear in mind we were at that age where we blew up model tanks with firecrackers, lit army men on fire with glue, shot lizards (and each other) with bb guns and made bottle rockets in the back yard.

Nowadays if a soccer mom sees a kid walking down to the levee with a bb gun, she'd be on the phone to the police.