World Marbles Day 2024

When I was in the first and second grades I played marbles. The game was very popular in Blackfoot, Idaho and others had massive collections of the little glass, metal, and stone spheres which would be placed up for grabs if you won one of the many variant games we were playing.

I'd like to say I was good at it but I wasn't. I never amassed a collection of marbles to speak of and pretty much ended up losing all of mine to other players.

Today is World Marbles Day. It happens each Good Friday making it fall on March 29 this year. It commemorates the first British Marbles Championship that took place in England in 1588. The prize was the hand of a fair maiden in marriage.

I think not.

Anyway, the day is here and I don't really sport any marbles these days ... not that I wouldn't like to.

Happy World Marbles Day.