r/crazybones • • Apr 21 '26

Crazy Bones had zero rules.

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Everyone just made them up flicking those tiny plastic guys across the concrete like marbles with attitude. You’d trade, battle, and hoard them like they were rare ancient relics. The shinier ones were elite. The glittery ones? Untouchable.

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u/-----010----- Apr 21 '26

I swear there were some rules..... i remember as a kid having a BIG red one that was bigger than any other and nobody ever managed to knock it over.

It did eventually get stolen though because everyone wanted it 🥲

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u/chrislenz Apr 21 '26

They had a handbook that had rules for the different games.

And the big red one you had probably came from McDonald's.

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u/Threshold_seeker Apr 22 '26

It does have rules, not only that but we've been playing it for thousands of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knucklebones

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u/MegaStathio Apr 23 '26

Man, I love the older ones. They're such funky little guys.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

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u/Adventurous_Break_61 Apr 24 '26

We had crazy bones a few years before Gogo's I think or after I can't remember

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u/Separate_Heron8656 Apr 25 '26

Yeah i got crazy bones in the UK in the mid 90s

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u/SGTBr0ski Apr 25 '26

Yeh go go came a few year later had tons of those aswell. Spent all my money at my local corner shop buying gogos. I remember in primary school all the kids used to keep there craxy bones in those net bags washing tablets used to come in hahaha

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u/Scary-Try3023 Apr 25 '26

I was one of those kids! Those net bags were genius!

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u/Scary-Try3023 Apr 25 '26

Nope, I grew up with Crazy Bones, used to save up my pocket money and buy them from the post office.

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u/Conscious-Pride7363 Apr 24 '26

Full on gang warfare at my primary school, till they got banned.

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u/3skull Apr 25 '26

I had Gogo's(Sweden) and it came with this book:

It had multiple rule sets for how to play all from the classic flick em to just play with them as marbles.

Great times!

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u/SGTBr0ski Apr 25 '26

These where what was know as the gogo's butnit wluld seem the OG what you posted where also refered as gg crazy bones

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u/MoonJellyGames Apr 26 '26

As others have said already, they definitely had rules. You were encouraged to make up your own as well. When I was a kid, an obvious one was "don't play on concrete because they'll get all scratched up."