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I am a teacher of English…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 16, 2012 by Streetplay DiscussionsJanuary 16, 2012
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I am a teacher of English from Poland (in Europe ) and I teach in a primary school. In a coursebook for 11-year-olds there is a short article about “Street Games” in the USA and one of them is skully! In Poland we have similar game where beer caps and chalk are used (I played it as a child). It is a kind of a simple race and you also try to finish the route (a long narrow chalk “road”) as first and eliminate your opponents. Anyway, I wanted to find out more about skully and noticed this site. It is fantastic! And I am going to wait until spring and then teach my pupils to play skully! I do hope they like it Thanks a lot! Dorota

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I was the Killer of Killers…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 26, 2011 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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I was the Killer of Killers in Skelly for a bunch of years growing up in East New York. Ruleed from Miller Ave to Essex St. along Fulton Ave. There is still a carved Skelly board that we called home field on Van Siclen Ave. between Fulton St. and Atlantic Ave. Check it out. We carved that Skelly board in the 70’s. Still there!

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Mr. J — Several smaller…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 25, 2011 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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Mr. J — Several smaller courts should be made with teams of 5-8 kids. Otherwise, a single game would take forever. And trust me, it’s skellzies. I played this in the early seventies in the South Bronx. Oh, and if it becomes popular, keep an eye out for kids using the coasters from school chairs as skellzie caps. They can be cut out, and then the rubber is dug out. They make perfect caps; heavy and slick. We used to take bottle caps, and then rub them on smooth concrete to a polish. Then we would take either crayons or green army men and melt them into the bottle cap for weight.

Posted in Bronx, Skully | Tagged crayons, South Bronx

How can I play Skelly with…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 7, 2011 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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How can I play Skelly with a large PE class of 28 kids? I made a huge board on the gym floor to play…what’s the best way to do this? Or should I can the idea and just have 4 or 5 smaller boards? Help!

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Back in the Day NYC Skelly…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 7, 2010 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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Back in the Day NYC Skelly T-shirts – http://www.backinthedayt-shirts.blogspot.com/

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Check out the Back in the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 22, 2010 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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Check out the Back in the Day NYC Skelly t-shirts: http://backinthedayt-shirts.blogspot.com/

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When i played in the late…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 31, 2010 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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When i played in the late fifty we all tried so hard to get a flat top .Back then you had to use a bottle operner to get you cap. We also filled them with lead or wax so know one can hit us out of our box.I played in Queens at PS115 and JH172 it was a great game.

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I just painted 3 skelly courts…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 8, 2010 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 16, 2019
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I just painted 3 skelly courts in my day schools yard. I am going to teach 100 6th grade boys how to play skelly. I have over 100 bottle and Snapple caps, crayons and magnifying glasses. I am a science teacher at the school and I will be relating the game to Newton’s Laws of Motion. I will teach them the art of weighting the pieces and hiding the washers under the melted crayon. I learned the game in the Pomonok housing projects of Queens, NYC in the 1950’s. This game never goes away and it is addicitng!

Posted in Queens, Skully | Tagged "The Projects", crayons, Pomonok

In the Bronx NY we would…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on March 20, 2010 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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In the Bronx NY we would fill our bottle caps with asphalt from the street paving. All you had to do was find a spot where a car had parked and leaked any kinf of fluid; oil, gas, brake, transmission, etc. The fluid would soften the aspahlt and you srapped the asphalt with the serrated edge of your bottle cap. Good times for all!

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my room is full of skulls…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on March 7, 2010 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 7, 2010
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my room is full of skulls from my b-friend

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