Conker Game Rules - Ali style

[Ali]

There are different variations on the rules in a Conker 
championship, although the aim remains the same: to smash as many of 
your opponents conkers as possible.

In the variation which I played, if you managed to smash someone 
else's conker, your conker became a "oner". If you smashed a second 
conker, your conker became a "twoer" and so on. but, if the conker 
you smasher had already smashed a conker or two, you were entitled 
to add that score to your conker. Thus if your twoer smashed a 
fiver, your conker became an eighter.

My husband had a conker competition at work this week (he was 
knocked out in the first round!). But it was considered cheating to 
bake a conker in the oven, soak it in vinegar or even use a battle-
hardened one from previous years.

I suppose I can understand Emma Watson wearing a protective mask to 
play conkers as it's possibly not worth the risk to a film star. But 
I never really felt people were at risk from the disintegrating 
conker. They were more liable to be hurt by being hit over the hit 
with a conker - it hurts!

Ali

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