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> We just gave everyone 6…

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> We just gave everyone 6 boxus/advances if you knocked someone out of the skull. > Our start was also much further from box # 1. I will note these regional differences upon the next revision of the rules. The bonus given for the skull can really vary! When we played, we make one of the skull boxes a “K” (you became a killer instantly) and a “*” (you reversed yor direction in play–if your were going for 5 forwards, getting this bonus put you going for 5 backwards). http://www.westnet.com/~hmcnally/skully/skullyrules.pdf Keep those comments coming, folks!

Okay, here’s a suggestion….

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Okay, here’s a suggestion. Problem is, it’s not tongue in cheek, and technically it’s not losing money, more like giving it away. If you’re all about street games, take the money to the streets! Start with New York since that seems to be where many of our roots are. Have a city-wide street games tournament and exhibition – give prizes and award money! Get sponsors – that way they can lose their money too! Maybe make it an annual thing. Imagine streets of the City closed off to punchball games, stickball games, skelly (or skully depending on where you were from), jacks, jump rope, etc. If it loses enough money in New York, you can take the show on the road and lose money in other urban areas.

Thought of another one called:…

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Thought of another one called: Round Up. This was a variation of tag and not quite Ringalivio/man hunt. One person was it. If they tagged/caught someone, they were both it. The idea was to catch everone eventually. To tag someone you had to grab them and say “Round Up Round Up 123” just like Ringalevio

How about “Hot peas and…

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How about “Hot peas and Butter”. In this game you hid a belt in the bushes, everyone would look for it as you said colder/warmer/hotter to signefy how close they were. When someone found the belt, they proceeded to swing and wip wildly until everyone ran back to the base

I grew up on the Lower east…

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I grew up on the Lower east Side and played skulley throughout the late seventies/early eighties. I just read your rules document, and it seems complete. We had prepainted boards that did not have numbers in the skull except 13 of course. We just gave everyone 6 boxus/advances if you knocked someone out of the skull. If you knocked them from skull section to skull section it was treated as a standard hit. Our start was also much further from box # 1. Usually on the oposite side of the board, so beginers often found themself in the skull on turn one. We often switched caps when we became killers and used blasters. My favorite was the libby caps (about the size of todays snapple caps)

I grew up in the lower east…

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I grew up in the lower east side, being only 34 that wasn’t long ago. We played the same game but called it ‘Man hunt’….We usually played in the street, but had an apartment version where we played in the building and the staircases…someone always cheated and hid in their own apartment

Hey there Sean… I didn’t…

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Hey there Sean… I didn’t see that you had the last Message… Thanks for sending me the link to this site… It’s very cool… By the way… For all the rest of you, I am from Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn… Maurice again…

Great site is right… The…

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Great site is right… The way we used to play skulley (Though we used to call it Skelley). You had to go up the numbers and down the numbers and then you were a SHARK. You then had to hit the other players 3 times. Then you win. We also had the rule that is your cap started to roll on it’s side you could kick it as far the hell away from the board as you could kick… Great game, great site… Maurice