Talk:Jacks

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ū==Spinning jacks==

I have a set of jacks here (of which I may manage to provide a photograph), but I've never played. I note that, of the six points of each jack, four have balls on the end, and two (opposite) are more pointed. This suggests to me (and experiment confirms) that the jack can be spun on a smooth level surface, but this isn't mentioned in the description of the game. Is there some variant that uses this property? Bovlb 14:40:11, 2005-08-05 (UTC)

This is completely anecdotal and un-encyclopaedic, but when we were young my brother and I 'spiced up' the game by requiring the playing to set the jacks spinning and scoop them up before they stopped moving. --Adam Brink 18:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

There are likely to be many local variations on this game - eg in the school where I played it the jacks were first put on the back of the hand, then tossed in the air and the hand turned over: however many were caught provided the number from which picking up was started. Once all had been picked up the person started at one again, but had to touch the ground with their hand once before the ball bounced - and if the cycle was completed again, twice etc. Jackiespeel 15:59, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

When you reach a current level you have to do tricks like spinig the jack and scooping them up before they stop. If you reach this level you would have to do this trick at a show.

Our variation: You throw the ball up, do onesies through tensies, only re-throwing the jacks if there aren't enough on the ground left to pick up. Once you reach tensies, you start again from onesies, but you have to drop the ball instead of throwing it up. First one to reach tensies the second time wins. Bzzhuh 21:36, 6 July 2007 (UTC)