Keepsies

Keepsies is a variation on the rules of the game of marbles. When playing marbles, it is “keepsies” when friends agree that each will keep the marbles they win. When playing marbles, the best experiences are wining, losing, collecting, trading and pondering the endless variety of marble designs. Winning your opponent's marbles in a game is exciting for everyone who loves to play marbles.
When marble playing reached it's peak in the 1950's, children everywhere gathered to play marbles in school yards, homes, or any other place where wandering kids would go. Every marble player had porcelain and glass marbles in different, fascinating designs. Even today, the best thing about playing marbles is the pleasure of finding new and different designs.
Marbles games are fun because they are a socially interactive game that supports exchanging marbles between players. There are numerous kinds of marbles games such as ringer, ring-taw, dropsies. School aged kids around the world have gathered in places where a child can wander to play marbles. Each kid would have a bag or can or marbles to fill with an endless supply of marble designs. Marble makers have created dozens of different categories of marble designs, including cartoon marbles, cat-eyes, clearies, cloudies, agates, aggies, allies, commies, chinas, corkscrews, benningtons, bumboozers, peewees and countless others.
Kids who play marbles love to build a marble set to get the best designs, best shooters, and largest collection of marbles. Part of the fun is to trade and collect marbles with friends.

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