Gobstones Club

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 136539

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "doddiemoemoe"
<doddiemoemoe at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spotsgal" <Nanagose at a...>
> wrote:
> > > singapotter:
> > > Does anybody know just what do members of the Gobstones Club do?
> >**snip**> > Eileen Prince was a member in HBP.
<snip>
#
> > Christina:
> >
> > According to the Harry Potter Lexicon, "Gobstones is a game
> involving stones played something like marbles, in which the stones
> spit disgusting liquid at the opposing player when they lose a
point.
> There are Gobstone clubs at Hogwarts (OP17) and also an
International
> > Gobstones League

<snip>

Doddie:
> I think Gobstones is something akin to muggle Pool/Snooker/Texas
> Hold'em Poker...

Geoff:
When I was a kid, real world Gobstones was a popular game often 
played on theschool playground or around at home.

I can't remember all the rules, but you had five cube-shaped stones,
about three quarters of an inch along each edge. They were usually
all different colours.

IIRC, the idea was to have four spread out on the ground and you
threw one up, grabbed another (with the throwing hand) while the
first was in the air and then caught the first. Then you threw both
in the air and tried to grab a third and so on. When it went pear-
shaped (as it usually did!), someone else had a turn.

Very low-tech, cheap but fun in the days before computers, when not
everybody had a TV set and you made your own fun with games you
played together.

Obviously,the Wizarding world took the game to new heights.....

Geoff
<sighs nostagically>