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In NYC, a variant of "marbles" was played with crown cap liners. A square
was drawn with chalk, and an inner square also, the inner one divided into
four. At each interior corner another small square was drawn, and each
section marked with a number from one to eight (I think) so that one had to
"finger flick" the crown cap from one corner to another and then to the
middle numbers (the order of which escapes me) and the cap would have to
arrive in the squares or the player would surrender his turn to another
player. The skill was to send the cap across the asphalt in order and not
undershoot or overshoot the square. They outside dimension was about five or
six feet and seems to be a variant of some of the different games found
perhaps one found in a late eighteenth century basement in New York City,
though that was more the size of a board game inscribed on rock. Some street
corners in NYC were (are) covered in stuck in crown caps, perhaps near sewer
grates where "tops" were played, the idea was to strike a players spinning
top and send it into the sewer.
George Myers
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