Anyone still play that flipping card game with sports cards against the wall?

PillarDollarCollector

You stand them up on the wall then try to knock them over while throwing cards at them.

PillarDollarCollector

You guys should try it with your kids it was a lot of fun. Even alone it passes the time.

PillarDollarCollector

You throw them like ninja stars to knock the standing cards down.

PillarDollarCollector

Or is this a lost thing of the past?

DBesse27

Idk. Could you explain it more?

PillarDollarCollector

@DBesse27 said:
Idk. Could you explain it more?

Stand a bunch of cards in a 35-45 degree angle up against the wall then stand back and lay down on the floor about 10-15 feet away and throw the cards like ninja stars at 180 degrees flat and try to knock the cards stacked up down.

Like skipping rocks on water but your wrist goes the other way instead.

PillarDollarCollector

PillarDollarCollector

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrK90z0Cl4

PillarDollarCollector

I use to play it a lot in the 1990's.

PillarDollarCollector

When you have nothing to do with garbage cards.

DBesse27

I’m still not quite getting it.

GroceryRackPack

@KingOfMorganDollar said:
You throw them like ninja stars to knock the standing cards down.

Um I got my ass kicked for throwing ninja stars in the house.

flcardtrader

Knockdown? I used to be the king of knockdown! Loved playing it as a kid.

2 minutes into that video is some fun times!

I was pretty good at topsies too. We would go onto my friends roof and pitch cards all day only going down the ladder to clean up once one person managed to land a card on top of the other.

This was back in 77, 78, and 79 before we cared about GEM MINT. Good times!

blurryface

i just sharpen the edges of my used toploaders and pretend i'm batman.

you try flipping my 86 canseco like that, you'll get a toploader to the neck from outta the shadows.

Parkerplenty123

@GroceryRackPack said:

@KingOfMorganDollar said:
You throw them like ninja stars to knock the standing cards down.

Um I got my ass kicked for throwing ninja stars in the house.

When I read this I had to laugh. The back of my bedroom door was full of holes from practicing throwing those ninja stars.

baseballfan

gosh I loved that game in grade school especially 5th-6th grade 1980 topps

I had a ton of them I won, they are beat to hell but I still have them

I'm ready to play

Stone193

The game was "big" in the 50s.

A few years ago, I spent hours combing the net for anyone who had 50s pics of kids playing with cards.

In my world, no one was collecting cards and doing sets; just for a single player like Mantle, Mays or Snider (I'm a NYC boy) and then they were stored in a drawer till mom filed them away....

Chicago1976

blurryface

what card is in the spokes?

Chicago1976

Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Andy Hansen, card # 74, is in the spokes!