> On Apr 29, 4:14 pm, Gib Bogle<g.bo...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Is there a shorter name for this? The shape is that of a component in a
>> children's game, the name of which I forget.
> A jack ?
That's the one! I can't remember what we did with them (I mean when we played).
On Apr 30, 2:25 pm, Gib Bogle <g.bo...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 1/05/2012 6:31 a.m., Ray Koopman wrote:
>> On Apr 29, 4:14 pm, Gib Bogle<g.bo...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>> Is there a shorter name for this? The shape is that of a component
>>> in a children's game, the name of which I forget.
>> A jack ?
> That's the one! I can't remember what we did with them
> (I mean when we played).
> On Apr 30, 2:25 pm, Gib Bogle<g.bo...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> On 1/05/2012 6:31 a.m., Ray Koopman wrote:
>>> On Apr 29, 4:14 pm, Gib Bogle<g.bo...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>>> Is there a shorter name for this? The shape is that of a component
>>>> in a children's game, the name of which I forget.
>>> A jack ?
>> That's the one! I can't remember what we did with them
>> (I mean when we played).
Ah, yes! Knucklebones is what we called it, although that game was usually played with pieces of plastic with a shape that could have had some resemblance to a bone. Maybe it was played originally with real bones. "He's got his grandfather's fingers"