Daily Idea #304: Marbles

For today’s old school daily idea, we are learning how to play marbles! I was given a small set of marbles as a kid and never understood how to play. I knew they were pretty and loved looking at the colors inside but that’s as far as I got. Anyway, here’s the basics:

Draw a circle about 3-4 feet in diameter on the ground (you can use chalk, tape, or even yarn to set the circle boundaries). Set up the marbles you will be shooting, know as the tibs, in a X formation in the middle of the circle. Players take turns using the largest marble, also known as the the taw, to shoot the marbles in the middle out of the circle. Take the taw in the crook of your index finger and shoot it into the circle with your thumb aiming to knock out as many of the tibs from the circle as you can. Any marbles knocked out of the circle are a point to that player. Continue that turn until the taw (the shooter marble) goes outside of the boundaries of the circle.

For more rules and different ways to play, writtenreality.com/kickin-old-school-marbles has a “cheat sheet” that I am attaching below.