I heard that it had a name once years ago, but don’t know what it is called. Also, where did it start? It seems like something bored soldiers would do in a trench in WWI.
I never knew it was a game. It has rules? A scoring system? Or is it just the first guy that bleeds loses?
Or is it wins?
I know it as mumble the peg or somthing like that.
The Mumbleypeg I remember had nothing to do with stabbing between the fingers. IIRC…it had to do with flipping your knife and it sticking in the ground between the other player feet.
Here’s another game with the same objective!
Five Finger Filet
Sorry that this doesn’t help you with the name…
I tried to find the name of this “game” a while ago on the internet and turned up nothing. How it got confused with Mumble-The-Peg I have no idea (and I have seen it referred to that way a couple times), but from name alone you should be able to tell that Mumbletypeg is a completely different game.
I could only find that the ‘knife trick’ performed by Bishop in Aliens was taken from a Roman Polanski movie called Knife in Water . Beyond that I have no clue as to its origin…
I’ve seen it as mumblety-peg (spelled various ways, probably originally something like “mumble-the-peg”). It could also be played with the feet, as Reeder has described.
I’m sure there are threads in the search engine about this.
I remember being introduced to the game in Junior High (prior to 1986). I think that it was called “chicken”. But “chicken” has other forms. Most commonly where a pocket knife was thrown close to another’s foot while facing each other at a distance. I had the spey blade of an Schrade Old Timer trapper (brand and type of a slip joint poclet knife) stuck into my boot and foot doing this while in high school. :eek: I didn’t “chicken” (move) BTW. The knife between finger game wasn’t too popular since it was more dangerous. I played it a few times and got cut once (didn’t “chicken” either). Most often someone chickened out.