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nubers of players, as many…

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Original author: assan [e-mail]
 

nubers of players, as many as you could get together. all players were at one side of the street/sidewalk and up against the building/wall, one person (the one who got tagged) had to be in the middle of the street and bend over at the waist facing away from the players, he was the “polar bear”, the person who was the bear, became the chaser, he had to place his hand on the back of bear and circle the new bear three times and run to the oppsite side (across the street) of the street and tagged the wall/building and catch anyone of the other kids who had to run up to the “bear” and swat him on his rearend and make it back to base and not get tagged. All players had to leave the wall and run to the middle of street and swat the bear at least once. the chaser had to tag anyone he could before they made it back to base. the person who got tagged then beame the new polar bear.

I just wanted to say Thank…

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Original author: Ammie805 [e-mail]
 

I just wanted to say Thank you for this website! I played Skelsie growing up in Ridgewood (bordering Bklyn)and it was so much fun! Now that my boys are at the age I started playing it, I wanted to show them how but for the life of me couldn’t remember how to the board was layed out. Someone sent me this link and reading it brought back so many great memories. Thank you Ann Marie

Yeah Scully!I still have…

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Original author: LindaSpend [e-mail]
 

Yeah Scully!I still have my bottlecaps from the 70’s!!! We used to melt crayons into the caps..which was one of my favorite parts of being a scully player. Played with my cousins in Deer Park, NY(Long Island). I’ve always thought about Scully…miss it…and always longed to play again…LOVE YOUR WEBSITE! THANKS for the memories and encouraging the reemergence of SCULLY!!

Today I tought some of the…

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Original author: Naz [e-mail]
 

Today I tought some of the niegborhood kids how to play skelzee (that was what we called it where i grew up in the early `80s downtown Brooklyn) anyway i was amazed that they never heard of the game before and not suprised at how much thet enjoyed playing it. 3 hours later thier still out there

Skully is known by many…

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Original author: Hugh M. McNally (hmcnally) [e-mail]
 

Skully is known by many names–the similar sounding variations generally vary by neighborhood, though I certainly heard “skelly” as well as “skully” in the Bronx. I think that the sing-song quality of “skelzee/skelzies” is extended from the original “skully/skelly” in much the same way as people shooting for the the 2-box would proclaim they were “going for twosies.” As Snoop Dogg would say, “by any name, skelzizzle is off the hizzle for shizzle, dizzle.”

I played skelly as a youngster…

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Original author: Party Marty [e-mail]
 

I played skelly as a youngster growing up in Baltimore. We used to play on a painted box in the street. We used to use plastic tops from gallons of milk. We would fill them w/ hot asphallt from the street. It was hard sometimes looking for fresh oil spots in the street to dig up the asphalt. However, it was a necessity b/c this made the asphalt soft enough to dig up with an icecream stick :-). I spent many mornings underneath parked cars looking for oil leaks! -Moe

In Colonie, a suburb of…

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Original author: Sandra Paratory Andi [e-mail]
 

In Colonie, a suburb of Albany, NY the Statues we played was a variation of Tag. The game was played with approximately four to six players. The person who was “it,” chose a category (most beautiful, funniest, ugliest, most frightening, etc.) of statues before playing started. All players then began running. When the “it” person caught a player, he swung the player around and let him go. The player froze in the landing position, becoming a statue. When all players had been caught and turned into statues, the “it” person chose the best statue in the selected category. The player chosen best statue was then “it” and playing resumed.

Just found this site and…

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Original author: SIkid (sikid) [e-mail]
 

Just found this site and noticed that most of the posts were from Brooklyn and the Bronx. I grew up on Staten Island in the ’60’s and early 70’s in the Stapleton Houses, and spent many days playing skully in the park. We had skully boards already painted on the park grounds by the housing management.Bright yellow! In reading the postings I noticed the names of other games we used to play:Hot peas and butter, red light-green light, etc. Brought back some good memories. One game I haven’t seen was called black tar, or cau cau, I think. I was only about 8 at the time. Anyway, thanks for a great site.