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[Night Rider]

I remember the game well JohnDF and I was very good at it too. I had found a chinese lock blade junior high football game that I could get to stick 9 out of 10 times at a distance of 4 to 5 feet, perfect for the game and after I got my first pair of work boots I was fearless and no one wanted to play any more. Now just imagine if some millennials son came home today and explained this new game their friend showed them that involves tossing a knife at each others feet. I think his friends parents would receive a visit from the local PD. PS I still have that knife and I bet I could get it to stick on the first try. Thats it on top and it use to have a little folding hand guard but that got knocked off pretty fast. All I know about it was that it was call a loin lock blade but there was one other knife a boy owned in the neighborhood called an Elephant lock blade because as you probably could figure out, it had an elephant on it. Memories of innocent youth, it's to bad youth is wasted on the young.

 

[joeradza]

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.

That's the way I remember it also. Closer, closer, closer......@#$%

 

[Stropping Young Lad]

That's the way I remember it also. Closer, closer, closer......@#$%

That’s how I had the rules explained to me, I think.

 

[JohnDF]

That's the way I remember it also. Closer, closer, closer......@#$%

That’s how I had the rules explained to me, I think.

The thing is, we were all a bunch of cow kids and we all wore heavy leather cowboy boots. It was pretty difficult to stick a little jack knife into someone's foot. Mostly, the knife would just bounce off. But there was always the chance...

 

[joeradza]

The thing is, we were all a bunch of cow kids and we all wore heavy leather cowboy boots. It was pretty difficult to stick a little jack knife into someone's foot. Mostly, the knife would just bounce off. But there was always the chance...

Not me. Those days I was a city kid or a little ways out in someone's backyard. Hahaha, no real damage.

 

[Drum4fun]

My mumblypeg story... (an example in poor parenting ! ).

A buddy of mine and I took my young son to a swap meet. (he was probably 10 years old).
My buddy bought a large Bowie (pretty to look at , not much quality). He explains the game to
my son and starts with the first knife toss. At first ground impact the Bowie completely disintegrates.
We all laughed so hard there was barely any oxygen exchange ! A hilarious event that my son , now 26
still remembers. I wish you could have heard his expletive filled commentary while laughing so
hard. I laugh just thinking about it.

Mumblypeg...a right of passage in my household....all five brothers participated.... I'd like to say
we never flinched, but that would be a lie... loser mowed the lawn, did the dishes, did the chores etc. .
Good times ...probably politically incorrect in the current era !

Charles

 

[315]

I never ever played it. But in Scouts we would do other stupid things with our knives, hoping the Scoutmaster wouldn’t catch us. One summer at camp my buddy and I were dropping our knives straight down on the wooden platform the tents were on. My Uncle Henry 127UH hit at an angle and the weight of it caused the tip to bend. In my infinite wisdom I tried to bend it back, only to break it off. I carried it for years like that until I took it to a hand crank grinder and SLOWLY put a point on it again.

 

[JohnDF]

My mumblypeg story... (an example in poor parenting ! ).

A buddy of mine and I took my young son to a swap meet. (he was probably 10 years old).
My buddy bought a large Bowie (pretty to look at , not much quality). He explains the game to
my son and starts with the first knife toss. At first ground impact the Bowie completely disintegrates.
We all laughed so hard there was barely any oxygen exchange ! A hilarious event that my son , now 26
still remembers. I wish you could have heard his expletive filled commentary while laughing so
hard. I laugh just thinking about it.

Mumblypeg...a right of passage in my household....all five brothers participated.... I'd like to say
we never flinched, but that would be a lie... loser mowed the lawn, did the dishes, did the chores etc. .
Good times ...probably politically incorrect in the current era !

Charles

Great story. Thanks.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

This has me thinking about striking up a game at my sister's Christmas, my Dad will be there and my nephew, who's 20. As long as my Dad promises not to use the Boker I plan to give him, and ain't no way I'll let my nephew chuck the 110 I'm going to give him at my footUnless I had a pair of sabatons and grieves

 

[mugwump867]

I learned to play mumblety-peg from my then 88 year old great aunt and matriarch of a very upstanding family. She saw us kids fooling around with our pocket knives and flew out into the yard to show us how it was done. All the money and schooling in the world hadn't quite erased what had been a hard-scrabble childhood as a first generation Irish-American. Needless to say her daughter was aghast at such behavior but we kids loved it.

 

[Jack Black]

Sorry!

 

[Jack Black]

In the good old days, all Scouts carried knives (no toting chip). The game is usually known as Splits here, as it is in some parts of the US. My mother taught me to play (and we wore Woolthorth's plastic sandals then!)!

 

[Stropping Young Lad]

In the good old days, all Scouts carried knives (no toting chip). The game is usually known as Splits here, as it is in some parts of the US. My mother taught me to play (and we wore Woolthorth's plastic sandals then!)!

Great rules sheet! Thanks for posting, Jack.

 

[pa knifeguy]

There's a great scene in Lonesome Dove where Deets, Pea eye and Newt are playing mumbleypeg

 

[meako]

Never played it ....barefoot most of the time.
That plus the lads I hung out with would have had an extra round where the knife had to hit you in the face or heart....
It just doesnt sound safe at all....mind you in all fairness neither is hours of goggling at screens shooting everything.
At least pain is real.

 

[colin.p]

Never heard of it and so had to search Youtube to see what it's all about.

 

[chuck4570]

In the good old days, all Scouts carried knives (no toting chip). The game is usually known as Splits here, as it is in some parts of the US. My mother taught me to play (and we wore Woolthorth's plastic sandals then!)!

This how I remember playing, I don’t think we ever got past the forehead throw and just like any game we added throws like laying it on our foot and flipping it and another one was standing on one leg with the other bent and flipping from our ankle. I’m sure there’s many more variations out there but we’re all getting to old to remember.
Chuck

 

[315]

Sometimes life is ironic, the Post Office delivered a 75th Anniversary Boy Scout Knife today and the seller threw in a “Totin’ Chip”. I won’t be tossing it into the ground though....don’t want to loose my Chip

 

[JohnDF]

Sometimes life is ironic, the Post Office delivered a 75th Anniversary Boy Scout Knife today and the seller threw in a “Totin’ Chip”. I won’t be tossing it into the ground though....don’t want to loose my Chip

You'll have to get a Scout Leader to sign it off for you.
I'm no longer a registered Scout Leader, I can't help.

 

[Jack Black]

Great rules sheet! Thanks for posting, Jack.

It was originally posted by another member some years back

Sometimes life is ironic, the Post Office delivered a 75th Anniversary Boy Scout Knife today and the seller threw in a “Totin’ Chip”. I won’t be tossing it into the ground though....don’t want to loose my Chip

That's cool