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Played in Philadelphia Pa….

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Played in Philadelphia Pa. in late 70’s.We called it caps or poison.Yesterday,since the kids were out of school for just one day, bored out of thier minds.I introduced them to this game,just like me they loved it.It started with four kids,by the time I was finished tring to explain all the rules and finishing the first game.There now were nine kids waiting for the next game. Plus neighbors telling me how they played this game.So,I decided to see if there were any official rules,if so please get in touch. —BY THE WAY STILL A GREAT GAME! JJW2103 [at] AOL [dot] COM

> the only rules were you…

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> the only rules were you had to wear your best > shoes and new pants. This way you were sure > to get your mom extra upset. This is twisted. I love it. If I ever wore anything other than my many-patched dungarees (remember calling them dungarees?), my mother would have cut me off at the knees, making me a shorts-wearer, to solve the problem!

This is such a coooooool…

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This is such a coooooool site! I’m not getting any work done! My sister and I used to play skully in the Woodside Housing Projects in Queens in the late 50’s. To this day, the smell of Crayola Crayons brings back floods of memories — both because I used to draw with them, but mostly because of their aroma when melted for my skully shooters! On the radiator — I had forgotten that! Wow…… Jan

I grew up on 181st between…

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I grew up on 181st between Vyse and Bryant in the Bronx. (right around the corner from the Bronx Zoo-South enterance “West Farms Square”) We called it skully. Had to go 1-13 and around the center and back down to become a killer. If you ended up in the sections around 13 you were stuck till someone hit you out. We all had different size caps filled with wax. When it rained we played on the linoleum in my bedroom (6 story walk up) that had flowers located in the in the shape of the “skully”. I am now a Phys Ed teacher in Phoenix and we play skully, stickball, one wall handball, off the curb, punch ball and Johnny on the Pony. The kids love thses games and I really enjoy the memories while playing with them.

I played skully in cypress…

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I played skully in cypress Hills, brooklyn. My son would like to play it now but I can’t remember exactly how you played or the rules. I do remember using bottle caps filled with melted crayons. I played it on the street. can’t remember how to draw the box. Please post the rules and instructions or email them to me. thank you. Sure does bring back nice memories.

In my neighborhood in Philly,…

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In my neighborhood in Philly, we called the game “Killers”, but it appears to be the same game as described by the NY kids as Skullie or Skillies. I have great memories of rigging-up a magnet on a string and fishing bottle caps out of the soda machine at the Flying A station on the corner of 5th and Sommerville. An entire side industry developed around collecting the caps. Not that we didn’t take the game seriously. We eventually painted the squares on the street; it was a dead-end so traffic was limited to occasional trucks going to and from the factory across the street.

> 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!