Whether you are playing for 'keepsies' or for fun - it's a good idea to know your marble terms.

Terms and play rules vary from place to place.

Here's a list of some common marble terms to get you started:

• Mib/Kimmie: One of thirteen 5/8" marbles placed in the center of the circle.

• Shooter/Taw: The marble that the player flicks toward the target mibs. The shooter must be more than 1/2" in diameter, but not over 3/4" in diameter.

• Knuckling down: A player must have at least one knuckle touching the ground while flicking.

• Fudging/Histing: A players hand was lifted off of the ground while shooting. A player will lose their turn for doing so.

• Flicking/Fulking: While knuckling down the shooter is flicked by the thumb out of the players hand.

• Aggie: Either a marble made out of agate or a glass marble that looks like it's agate. A glass or imitation aggie is also called an immie.

• Alley: A marble made of marble. Alley is short for alabaster.

• Bombsies: Dropping your shooter on the target marble.

• Keepsies: Playing for keeps. You get to keep all the marbles you win.

• Lagging: A way of choosing who shoots first. Players roll their marbles toward a line in the dirt (the lag line). Whoever gets closest without going over gets to shoot first.

• Plunking: Hitting the targets on the fly.

Next page > Marble Game Rules

---

Topics | Sports