The skilled knuck-giver was the one able to remove the most skin from the recipient’s knuckles! Bloody fun! single rap from flat face of the cards was 1 single rap from the card edge was 2 Hand sandwich applied with a fist was 10 Food sandwich was 25 A guy I work with described the Flying Knuck as applied by jumping off a park bench and slamming the foot into the hand sandwiched between two halfs of the deck. I recall my mother wanting this game outlawed. You knew who lost by the scab that lasted on their hand for a week. great stuff…especially when the kid picked a red card. He went white!

i remember the point/penalty structure as follows 52….the sandwich…as described…hand between the deck….applied with the foot 5…the scrape…lateral motion 2…the guiliteen……deck divided in thirds….the middle third up and slides between the outer thirds…the vector delivered downward to the knuckles inall cases…the finger wrapped around the full deck of cards….any cards drop….added to the penalty any confirmation or variations? joekoolxxxx [at] yahoo [dot] com

As I recall, the game was basically crazy eights. You can look up the rules in any card book. The specail part was what was done after the game was over. I used to play with my brother only so I am not sure what happened for more than 2 players. You counted up the number of cards left in the losers hand. You then cut the deck and if a red card came up, the knucks were hard, a black card called for soft knucks. I remember that you hit the knuckles with the flat deck for each knuck. There were other variations, I seem to remember scraping knuckles being worth 5. One significant feature is that if the winner got carried away and dropped any cards, he got knucks for each card dropped (52 if the whole deck dropped)

I Think back often of my old friends who I hung out with on 105 street and 1st ave. Choo Choo’s ice cream parlor, Veto-Junior-Bulletthead-Mikey Sonny-Louie-Donnie I could go on and on with names of friends I think of often. I miss them and wish them the best that life can offer them. E.Mail rs-curcurato [at] webtv [dot] net