Marble Playing Terms

A players term for a large marble see boulder.

Marble playing terms.

Ducksare the marbles to be shot at. Shot using your thumb to launch the shooter from your hand. Aside from the obvious all the marbles there s knuckle down and play for keeps here s a rundown of more popular terms used by marbles players and a brief description of the many games people play with marbles. Also known as chasing plumpers and scores of other names.

Ring the circle marking the playing field shooter a larger marble used to shoot the other marbles lagging shooting your shooter marble to see who goes first. To explain how to play marbles you should know the terminology. A surprising number of terms in the american lexicon come from marbles. Shooter or taw a larger marble used to shoot at the marbles.

An alley can be a marble made of alabaster but it can also be another term for a shooter or taw the large marble used to knock around the smaller ones which are sometimes called mibs or. The taw line or tie line or scratch as it is often called is the line drawn for a starting point in games like the long ring. General term for marbles games in which shooters follow each other as they move from one location to another. Ring the playing field.

A glossary of marble terms. Marbles regular sized marbles. I have defined some of the most basic terms below. Keepsies the player keeps all the marbles he she wins.