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[denizaksulu]

Deniz:

"I suppose the name of the game came from "caki" which means "folding knive" in Turkish..does this word have a meaning in Greek?

It comes straigth from the the word Caki. From the same word i guess must come the expression Thakkos, for someone who is straight and true in his dealings. In Greece they do not use the word, but one way I was surprised by a fellow from Crete who asked to borrow my "caki".

You reminded me of lingri, we used to play that more when visiting my grandfather's village in the Morphou area. And I was just thinking, if we dressed in our whites and had a pticher of lemonade along, it could have turned into quite a gentleman's game! Well, we obviously did not wear whites and we were no gentlemen.

We also played a version of the game you describe with holes but with marbles and the penalty was the loss of marbles. When marble season was on, boys walked around Famagusta with pockes bulging with marbles. One pocket to carry your stock marbles and the other for the hitting marble, which was never, but never, traded.

Laughter! The 'hitting' marbles were supplied by the drinks industry. My grand dad who was the Mouhktari, was also the Coffee shop/ Inn owner. He had stock of 'old' 'gazoz' bottles. Which had once contained a carbonated drink, possibly flavoured with lemon. They contained a 'widget', a glazed 'marble'. These were used as 'Hitters'. The game you describe with marbles is different from the one described by Iceman previously using the tennis ball.

Still all great fun. Those were the days. No guns, no division.

[iceman]

Deniz:

"I suppose the name of the game came from "caki" which means "folding knive" in Turkish..does this word have a meaning in Greek?

It comes straigth from the the word Caki. From the same word i guess must come the expression Thakkos, for someone who is straight and true in his dealings. In Greece they do not use the word, but one way I was surprised by a fellow from Crete who asked to borrow my "caki".

You reminded me of lingri, we used to play that more when visiting my grandfather's village in the Morphou area. And I was just thinking, if we dressed in our whites and had a pticher of lemonade along, it could have turned into quite a gentleman's game! Well, we obviously did not wear whites and we were no gentlemen.

We also played a version of the game you describe with holes but with marbles and the penalty was the loss of marbles. When marble season was on, boys walked around Famagusta with pockes bulging with marbles. One pocket to carry your stock marbles and the other for the hitting marble, which was never, but never, traded.

Laughter! The 'hitting' marbles were supplied by the drinks industry. My grand dad who was the Mouhktari, was also the Coffee shop/ Inn owner. He had stock of 'old' 'gazoz' bottles. Which had once contained a carbonated drink, possibly flavoured with lemon. They contained a 'widget', a glazed 'marble'. These were used as 'Hitters'. The game you describe with marbles is different from the one described by Iceman previously using the tennis ball.

Still all great fun. Those were the days. No guns, no division.

yessssss...and we called those hitters enek

[Get Real!]

Deniz:

"I suppose the name of the game came from "caki" which means "folding knive" in Turkish..does this word have a meaning in Greek?

It comes straigth from the the word Caki. From the same word i guess must come the expression Thakkos, for someone who is straight and true in his dealings. In Greece they do not use the word, but one way I was surprised by a fellow from Crete who asked to borrow my "caki".

You reminded me of lingri, we used to play that more when visiting my grandfather's village in the Morphou area. And I was just thinking, if we dressed in our whites and had a pticher of lemonade along, it could have turned into quite a gentleman's game! Well, we obviously did not wear whites and we were no gentlemen.

We also played a version of the game you describe with holes but with marbles and the penalty was the loss of marbles. When marble season was on, boys walked around Famagusta with pockes bulging with marbles. One pocket to carry your stock marbles and the other for the hitting marble, which was never, but never, traded.

Laughter! The 'hitting' marbles were supplied by the drinks industry. My grand dad who was the Mouhktari, was also the Coffee shop/ Inn owner. He had stock of 'old' 'gazoz' bottles. Which had once contained a carbonated drink, possibly flavoured with lemon. They contained a 'widget', a glazed 'marble'. These were used as 'Hitters'. The game you describe with marbles is different from the one described by Iceman previously using the tennis ball.

Still all great fun. Those were the days. No guns, no division.

yessssss...and we called those hitters enek

"Gittos" in Greek...

[denizaksulu]

Deniz:

"I suppose the name of the game came from "caki" which means "folding knive" in Turkish..does this word have a meaning in Greek?

It comes straigth from the the word Caki. From the same word i guess must come the expression Thakkos, for someone who is straight and true in his dealings. In Greece they do not use the word, but one way I was surprised by a fellow from Crete who asked to borrow my "caki".

You reminded me of lingri, we used to play that more when visiting my grandfather's village in the Morphou area. And I was just thinking, if we dressed in our whites and had a pticher of lemonade along, it could have turned into quite a gentleman's game! Well, we obviously did not wear whites and we were no gentlemen.

We also played a version of the game you describe with holes but with marbles and the penalty was the loss of marbles. When marble season was on, boys walked around Famagusta with pockes bulging with marbles. One pocket to carry your stock marbles and the other for the hitting marble, which was never, but never, traded.

Laughter! The 'hitting' marbles were supplied by the drinks industry. My grand dad who was the Mouhktari, was also the Coffee shop/ Inn owner. He had stock of 'old' 'gazoz' bottles. Which had once contained a carbonated drink, possibly flavoured with lemon. They contained a 'widget', a glazed 'marble'. These were used as 'Hitters'. The game you describe with marbles is different from the one described by Iceman previously using the tennis ball.

Still all great fun. Those were the days. No guns, no division.

yessssss...and we called those hitters enek

The word 'ingoz' comes to mind. A Marble game expression. I wonder if it meant 'bullseye'? Enek could be 'inek' in Turkish, which means, 'cow'. Coincidence ,? I dont know yet. Talking about toys seems better than Cyprob. If we all kept playing with our toys there wouldnt have been any Cyprob. HEAR THAT GR. THROW YOUR ARSENAL AWAY!!!

Regards

[iceman]

Deniz:

"I suppose the name of the game came from "caki" which means "folding knive" in Turkish..does this word have a meaning in Greek?

It comes straigth from the the word Caki. From the same word i guess must come the expression Thakkos, for someone who is straight and true in his dealings. In Greece they do not use the word, but one way I was surprised by a fellow from Crete who asked to borrow my "caki".

You reminded me of lingri, we used to play that more when visiting my grandfather's village in the Morphou area. And I was just thinking, if we dressed in our whites and had a pticher of lemonade along, it could have turned into quite a gentleman's game! Well, we obviously did not wear whites and we were no gentlemen.

We also played a version of the game you describe with holes but with marbles and the penalty was the loss of marbles. When marble season was on, boys walked around Famagusta with pockes bulging with marbles. One pocket to carry your stock marbles and the other for the hitting marble, which was never, but never, traded.

Laughter! The 'hitting' marbles were supplied by the drinks industry. My grand dad who was the Mouhktari, was also the Coffee shop/ Inn owner. He had stock of 'old' 'gazoz' bottles. Which had once contained a carbonated drink, possibly flavoured with lemon. They contained a 'widget', a glazed 'marble'. These were used as 'Hitters'. The game you describe with marbles is different from the one described by Iceman previously using the tennis ball.

Still all great fun. Those were the days. No guns, no division.

yessssss...and we called those hitters enek

The word 'ingoz' comes to mind. A Marble game expression. I wonder if it meant 'bullseye'? Enek could be 'inek' in Turkish, which means, 'cow'. Coincidence ,? I dont know yet. Talking about toys seems better than Cyprob. If we all kept playing with our toys there wouldnt have been any Cyprob. HEAR THAT GR. THROW YOUR ARSENAL AWAY!!!

Regards

yes,we used to shout out "ingoz" after a hit when playing marbles...i also remember we had ingoz ce bithami (which is greek)

[Get Real!]

yessssss...and we called those hitters enek

The word 'ingoz' comes to mind. A Marble game expression. I wonder if it meant 'bullseye'? Enek could be 'inek' in Turkish, which means, 'cow'. Coincidence ,? I dont know yet. Talking about toys seems better than Cyprob. If we all kept playing with our toys there wouldnt have been any Cyprob. HEAR THAT GR. THROW YOUR ARSENAL AWAY!!!

Regards

I remember 4 different sizes...

Misgourri - Small
Pirilli - Normal
Gittos - Hitter
Billia - Large

[Get Real!]

yes,we used to shout out "ingoz" after a hit when playing marbles...i also remember we had ingoz ce bithami (which is greek)

"Tsie bithami" means "And a stretch", which meant the distance between your thumb and middle finger stretched out making it "within range" and thus valid!

[iceman]

yes,we used to shout out "ingoz" after a hit when playing marbles...i also remember we had ingoz ce bithami (which is greek)

"Tsie bithami" means "And a stretch", which meant the distance between your thumb and middle finger stretched out making it "within range" and thus valid!

yesssss...thats exactly what it meant to us..

[denizaksulu]

yes,we used to shout out "ingoz" after a hit when playing marbles...i also remember we had ingoz ce bithami (which is greek)

"Tsie bithami" means "And a stretch", which meant the distance between your thumb and middle finger stretched out making it "within range" and thus valid!

yesssss...thats exactly what it meant to us..

It is obvious GR had played the game. He's lost his marbles since, now its his w....! (Phoenix is watching)

[Nikitas]

The terminology of the marbles game seems to have been one for the whole island.

Kittos was the hitting marble, ingoz the shout for a hit, pithami for the stretch, while palami was a palm width which qualiified for an additional marble as it was closer. Our teacher regarded this game darkly, as it was a sort of gambling, but we still played during every single break at the right season naturally.

I cannot recall which were the seasons for marbles, tchakkoui, and the spinning tops. I guess the tops must have come when the ground was harder and would support the spinners.