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Submitted by Jeff H
Marbles were a versatile toy, whether they were used for games or just collecting. Personally, I really enjoyed building marble mazes (the wood blocks were far superior to the plastic sets). What did you use marbles for as a kid?
This is also really interesting — how marbles are made.
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I lost mine
I have 4 amazing marbles. I can’t play with them though because they chip too easily.
I didn’t play with marbles much when I was little, the one main thing I remember doing was putting it on a circular fan with a groove at the top running all the way around, and watching the air spin it around. It was awesome and worthy of an epic win.
I used to have a bag of over 150 but could never get anyone in my family to play with me, marbles alone gets boring or sad after a while.
Sounds like a personal issue. You may be the sad and boring part.
My friend and I both named our mables and completely personified them. To this day, I am still looking for my favorite, Marbi (pronounced marb-eye). If anyone finds a yellow marble with red swirls, be sure to let me know.
Once, we found a large marble that seemed slightly smaller than the others and made of something other than glass. After a day of playing with it carrying it around and rolling it around on the floor, it started becoming oddly less smooth. We eventually figured out it was a gumball. We told another one of our friends about it. He took it and chewed it, despite knowing it had been all over the floor, even in the bathroom.
That “How It’s Made” was really cool.
marbles were so fun i used them as cannon balls for my Lincoln logs
i stil love marbles. the colors are so fascinating!! i used to take long walks around the apartments when i was a kid, and i’d usualy find 8 or 9 really awesome ones just sitting around in the grass or in puddles. i think i’ve lost them all though…
Those little round brown ones you found were rabbit turds not marbles.
The only marbles I really played with were in marble mazes.
I used to play marbles competitively! It was awesome! I still have most of mine
I love marbles! I used to play them at recess all the time. I had a pretty good collection, too– a nice blue one was my favorite. Jumping jacks was even better.
I still have my collection. Was there anyone else from my time who remembers the nicknames we gave to specific types of marbles? The clear ones with the swirls inside were beach balls, shiny/metallic-looking ones were steelies, larger ones were shooters, etc. At least that’s how I remember it.
Wow gay…….
Bigger that this comment box gay.
Now now, just because you never had a childhood is no reason to take it out on somebody who did.
Haha yes I remember steelies and shooters, but we called the ones with the swirlies inside “Cat Eyes”.
I don’t remember where mine went. Maybe in my old toy box?
Don’t stick marbles in your nose.
Right….. and you need to stop sticking the big black ones up ur bum.
I used to throw ‘em at my brothers. Hey… They threw ‘em at me and my sister first. And they used to throw frogs at me! Poor froggies. Actually I’d keep the cool looking ones … marbles … and that’d really piss my brothers off. Probably still have a couple of ‘em tucked away somewheres.
The marbles that is… brothers are now too big to tuck in to the ol’ hidey places and the froggies usually ended up a mess.
Eee!!!! I still loove marbles!!
I remember when I was a little girl and I took a whole basket filled with them and played with them. We had tons of them because my brother was a local marbel champ.
And, after a lot of playing, I lost them ^^;
Now I collect bouncy balls xP
When I grew up, I put mine in fancy jars and filled them with water and put the top on. I put them on the windowsill and the sun shines through them.
Oh GOD ! That bring back a lot of memory !! I loved to play marble with the other kids, simply dug in the sand and we could play, I loved to win and have the marble of other people and they all had value…. Good times =].
i had a box full of them, i counted, there was about 80. most if them were green with a little swirl in the middle. my favorite was a red one with glitter inside it X3
I shot all mine with my Wristrocket slingshot. (Shh! One of them went through the hardware store front window!)
Same here, no window for me, just birds on my farm
i used to play “the marble factory” with them. factory were made by legos
Marble runs (a plastic toy in primary colors…like pipes) and I liked throwing them in a sink full of water.
Had a big jar of galaxies (black with little white dots), plus heaps of beachies, chinas and cats-eyes. Spaghettis were the best (clear glass with squiggle inside). Only had one tombola (also a galaxy) and one granny (a beachie, I think). Banned at our school eventually after heated disputes over whether play was for “keeps” and when kids started bringing steel ball bearings, snooker balls etc.
We used marbles as ammo for our slingshots.
My dad had a huge marbles collection that my grandma gave me when I was seven. I added a few more to it but it was already bigger than most of my friends’ collections. He even had marbles made from real marble stone and a few made from metal. Those metal shooters were deadly. I won so much with them that my friends eventually wouldn’t let me use them anymore. They had more mass than the glass marbles and could scatter marbles like no ones business!
I remember you could buy them in a bag, it always had only one 1″ big one and the rest were small, usually clear with few colored stripes, or all clear, or all black.
I never liked playing the game, but I remember they were used as land mines and missiles, with army men in the sand box.
My dad would get mad because he’d run over them with the lawn mower and sometimes they’d go flying and break a window!!! Luckily no one was hurt.
In school they were banned around 6th grade when people started seriously ‘gambling’ with them.
I remember once, when my brother and I were in elementary school (think sixth and second grade, respectively), when we decided to play a marble game. It pretty much involved us blowing a marble from mouth to mouth through a long plastic tube. It was really fun until I inhaled at the wrong moment and wound up swallowing it. I have new respect for those “Small Parts, not for Children” labels, now. : )
…ouch. I hope you got it back.