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Used to do that a lot when I was a kid, with any kind of pocket knife. "Traditionals" were the only ones we had, lol.
We'd try to come closest to a point in the ground.
We'd throw the knife first with one hand and then the other. Then we'd balance it on different parts of the body before sticking it the ground including off the wrist, elbows, knees, shoulders, top of the head - even the nose and chin using either hand.
If it didn't stick, it was the next guy's turn.
Closest to the target, least misses off a body part determined the winner.
Lot of fun. Wonder if kids still do it?
Probably not, it would get in the way of video games and some adult would probably say it was unsafe.
 
My Dad showed me one, you start facing each other, 5-6 feet apart, feet together. You throw the knife at the other guys foot, but 2-4 inches to the side. More than a handspan you loose. You then move your foot to touch the knife. Repeat, with your feet getting wider and wider apart. Which increases the difficulty by being in an awkward position, plus balance becomes harder. First person that can't move his feet any further apart( your doing a split) or falls or throws wide, looses. There's always something on the line, usually your knife, or sack of marbles. Can't remember any rule on if you stick it in the other guys foot, probably one heck of a fist fight. I've played it, but found very few of my generation that would give it a try.
Edit: oh and if you chicken out and move your foot when the other guy throws you loose
 
That's right. I forgot about moving the feet to the knife. In the pic above, looks like the guy is aiming towards the other guy's foot who has his eyes closed to prevent flinching. Now I remember, if you flinched you lost. We played you couldn't close your eyes or you lost. CHICKEN!!
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
My Dad showed me one, you start facing each other, 5-6 feet apart, feet together. You throw the knife at the other guys foot, but 2-4 inches to the side. More than a handspan you loose. You then move your foot to touch the knife. Repeat, with your feet getting wider and wider apart. Which increases the difficulty by being in an awkward position, plus balance becomes harder. First person that can't move his feet any further apart( your doing a split) or falls or throws wide, looses. There's always something on the line, usually your knife, or sack of marbles. Can't remember any rule on if you stick it in the other guys foot, probably one heck of a fist fight. I've played it, but found very few of my generation that would give it a try.
Edit: oh and if you chicken out and move your foot when the other guy throws you loose
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That's how we played too.

A bad throw (between your feet - seldom happened) you could move your feet back closer together or you could choose two throws.

If someone put a knife into your foot, you got to keep their knife.

Summer Fun! :D

- Del
 
Crap,I keep remembering bits and pieces. I think I remember that I played it both ways.
Seems to me that I started off doing the off the parts of the body thing and I kinda remember my Dad showing me that way.
Me, Dickie Erickson and Stanley Farrell did that for a while.
Then somebody's bigger brother (must have been Dickie's older brother-Gilmore) said that was the "sissy" way and showed us the way you guys are talking about.
Man, that was a long while ago. Like over 65 years or so. WHEW!!
 
I was never in scouts so I hadn’t heard of this game. Funny though, my brother and I would throw the 3-tine pitch forks next to each other’s feet when we were supposed to be working. Grandpa always knew we were messing around when we were in the hay-mow lol.
 
Stropping Young Lad said:
I think I remember hearing about a rule where as punishment for a sissy throw, the offender had his knife pounded into the dirt, and could only use his mouth/teeth to pull it out. Thus the name of the game.
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That makes sense.
"Oh thou shalt gnaw thy tender sheets no more! A husband thou shalt have to mumble now." (King Arthur to Princess Huncamunca in Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies, or Tom Thumb the Great.) I'll repeat myself in case somebody steals my idea without giving me a cut: somebody should perform the annotated version in the style of Rocky Horror.
 
scrteened porch said:
That makes sense.
"Oh thou shalt gnaw thy tender sheets no more! A husband thou shalt have to mumble now." (King Arthur to Princess Huncamunca in Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies, or Tom Thumb the Great.) I'll repeat myself in case somebody steals my idea without giving me a cut: somebody should perform the annotated version in the style of Rocky Horror.
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You’re on record!

Actually now that I’m waking up more, I think the punishment in mumbly peg was for flinching.
 
OLd_gUY said:
Used to do that a lot when I was a kid, with any kind of pocket knife. "Traditionals" were the only ones we had, lol.
We'd try to come closest to a point in the ground.
We'd throw the knife first with one hand and then the other. Then we'd balance it on different parts of the body before sticking it the ground including off the wrist, elbows, knees, shoulders, top of the head - even the nose and chin using either hand.
If it didn't stick, it was the next guy's turn.
Closest to the target, least misses off a body part determined the winner.
Lot of fun. Wonder if kids still do it?
Probably not, it would get in the way of video games and some adult would probably say it was unsafe.
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If they still play Mumblypeg it would be on PlayStation or XBoxo_O
 
We would play it all the time and the rules changed constantly as we saw fit. Our favorite was throwing between the other person's feet and if you stuck the knife then the other guy had to move his feet closer together. If you flinch... you lost.
 
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