Game of pogs

In menko, one player lays their card down on a hard surface, and another player throws their card down in an attempt to flip the first card. If they succeed, they get to keep both cards, and whoever collects the most cards wins. During the Great Depression, a variation on menko using milk caps instead of ornate cards became a popular game among in Hawaii.

Almost 60 years later, a teacher named Blossom Galbiso taught her students the game, and within years it became a nationwide craze. POG stands for passion fruit, orange and guava, and was originally the brand of a Hawaiian tropical juice drink. When an enterprising POG juice marketing agent named Charlie Nalepa saw the milk caps game gaining popularity, he printed POG-branded caps just for the game.

Pogman even had his own series of books, for when fans wanted to take a little break from all that slamming and flipping. The game soon spread to the mainland, first surfacing in California, Texas, Oregon, and Washington before spreading to the rest of the country.

By , the previously obscure game of pogs, which had almost been forgotten, was now played throughout the world. As the game gained in popularity, thousands of types of pogs were manufactured, covering a wide array of images of toys, cartoons, movies, games, sports, famous people and famous world leaders such as UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President Bill Clinton.

Public awareness messages concerning topics such as first aid, safety, wildfire prevention, and drug use were also featured on pogs, and they were also used for fund raising for charities and organizations such as the Red Cross and cancer research organizations.

The popularity of the game spawned pog prizes at major fast-food chains see below , as well as knockoffs, such as "Slammer Whammers", a similar game released under a different brand name.

Pogs can sometimes still be found on eBay and in game and card stores. Also capitalizing on the success of pogs were corporations and governments.

Fox television released a line of pogs with the debut of "The Tick" animated series. Nintendo Power released many sets of pogs featuring Nintendo characters from games like Mega Man and EarthBound that were either packaged in with issues of the magazine or redeemable through their mail-in rewards program.

Kool-Aid also produced limited edition caps and slammers with the Kool-Aid Man imprinted on them, which were only available by mailing in a certain amount of Kool-Aid points. Because many children would keep the pogs they won in games from other players, many school districts considered pogs a form of gambling. To learn how to play for 'keeps' and how to hold the slammer correctly, read on!

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Pogs are cardboard discs about the size of a US half-dollar. They're usually blank on one side, with some kind of design on the other side. Slammers are metal discs that are somewhat larger than the pogs themselves. They were typically sold in big bins throughout the 90s, and can still be found in some kids stores, attics, and thrift shops. The game was played using bottle caps for a long time before it was commercialized for the mainland, where it became very popular in the s. Tape it onto a slab of cardboard.

Cut the circle out and draw a design on the top using with black pen. Color if you want. To make the slammer, simply tape two pieces of cardboard together and flatten it.

Compare pogs with your friends. Pogs is mostly a game of collecting the biggest and coolest collection of discs. A game of pogs requires a big pot of pogs, so it's usually played between a few friends all of whom have a big stack of them.

The object of the game is to end up with your buddy's pogs in your stack, to make your collection grow. Most games start with everyone comparing their favorite pogs in a pile. If you see some that you like, you can offer to trade for them or play for them. Decide whether or not you're going to play for keeps.

Once you see some pogs that you like, you can challenge your buddy to a game to keep them, but only if you both agree. If you don't want to play for keeps, make sure you both know it.

Before the game, the players decide whether to play for "keeps" or "no-keeps". If you play for "keeps", a player keeps the pogs that are won, even if they are his opponents. Teachers claimed that playing with pogs was a form of gambling. While its not super-common anymore, it's still good to make sure that it's allowed with your parents or teachers before you play. Find a good surface to play on. Any hard flat surface will be fine to play pogs. Carpet, counter tops, and concrete are all good places for pogs.

Just make sure you don't dent up your mom's table with your slammer. Each player puts an equal number of pogs into the stack. Go around the circle, and takes turns putting in the pogs that you're going to play with. June 5, Have something to tell us about this article? Let us know.