When the shooter strikes a duck or marble.
Marbles rules of ringer.
Ringer is played in a ring ten 10 feet in diameter with thirteen 13 marbles arranged in the center of a cross.
Draw a ring on the ground either with a piece of chalk or with a stick in the dirt.
Ringer is the official marbles game played at the national marbles tournament.
Set up 13 glass or clay marbles mibs in a cross shape at the center of a circle or ring.
There are house rules and other variations which can be added.
Rules to the game of marbles setting up the game a circle is drawn on the ground usually with a diameter of 3 6 feet.
It is played by placing 13 marbles in the form of a cross in the middle of a 10 foot diameter ring.
The rules for ringer are given below.
How many marbles you choose depends on how large of a game you want.
This variation of the ringer game requires that mibsters stand.
Space the marbles so that they evenly fill the ring but try to place the majority nearer to the center.
Ringer is played in a ring ten 10 feet in diameter with thirteen 13 marbles arranged in the center in a cross.
In ringer shooters shoot from the ring s edge and knock marbles out of the ring.
The more you place the longer the game will last.
When you think of kids playing marbles you are probably picturing ringer in your mind a circle on the ground and kids shooting at the marbles within.
You might want to review marbles terminology before going through them.
The object is to shoot these marbles out of the ring the player shooting the largest number of marbles out of the ring in any game being the winner of that game.
Ringer the tournament marble game.
Here is what i found in the history of ringer as a tournament game marbles became an organized sport in the united states in 1922 when macy s in philadelphia ran off a promotional tournament of seven boys and a girl.
When the shooter misses the marble.
Marbles are placed inside the circle usually near the center and often arranged in an x pattern.
You can use chalk on the sidewalk or blacktop or use thread or string to make a circle on the carpet.
To knock more marbles mibs out of the ring than your opponent.
This is the playing field or circle.
This means that the winner keeps the opponent s marbles won during the game.
The scripps howard newspapers took over sponsorship and created an annual countrywide elimination.
Draw a starting line just outside the ring.
The player shooting the largest number of marbles out of the ring in any game is the winner of that game.
When each player keeps their marbles at the end of a game rather than handing them over to the winner.
Some rules for playing marbles object.
The object is to shoot these marbles out of the ring.