I am going on 62 now, and when I was a kid growing up, and lucky to make teenage years, where Polio, Tuberculosis and dyptheria were rife, and there was no such things as anti bacterial hand washes, ecoli was a myth and you went into hospital to be cured of bugs, not to get them, I played a game with my mates.
It concerned a game of marbles played over an open drain water plate, ( the ones with open slats, so that the marbles wouldn't fall through), and the drain had to be perfectly selected so that the gutter that the drain lid sat in sloped towards the drain obviously to allow the rainwater to disperse down the hole.
The object was to play the marbles along the lines of the slats by flicking the marbles up onto the roadway so that they came back down onto the next line, and if you hit the opponants marble you "took it" from them.
I think the basic rules were to win all marbles off the opposing player.....i.e. yer mate.
But that's as far as I remember the rules.........are these too simple or did anyone else of my age or older play the same game, before councils widened the grid slats and you couldn't play the game anymore....the marbles would fall through.
the reason for asking is that whilst i'm thinking of my next project I am thinking ofmaking a game in timber so me and the kids can play the game, without subjecting ourselves to unknown deseases and perils from playing over an open storm drain , lol
a little diagram of what I had in mind..........but I could do with some better rules and game plans, lol
cheers.