Talk:Mumblety-peg
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The Photo Caption
[edit source]The picture shows a man pulling a knife out of the ground with his teeth. The caption says the picture shows a person "losing at" mumblety-peg. But in the description of the game, it doesn't sound like pulling the knife out with one's teeth is what the loser does. It sounds like every player would do this. I think the caption should be changed to simply say that it shows a person playing mumblety-peg. I don't think there's anything in the picture that indicates the person is losing--unless the description of the game in the main article is wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.247.43.137 (talk) 13:31, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
Stretch
[edit source]Is stretch a separate game or, as given now, a variant? Other than personal recollection, is there any source for assigning it one way or tother?Kdammers (talk) 22:46, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
connection to The Knife Game
[edit source]I feel like it might be worth looking into the name "Mumblety-peg" being associated with "The Knife Game" (aka five finger fillet aka the one where you stab in between your fingers at high speeds), because while this is anecdotal, my wife and I grew up in different parts of the US and knew of a game called "Mumblety-peg" that was... NOT this game, and was instead the game known as Five Finger Fillet in other places.
I don't have any sources I don't really know what wikipedia needs for this kind of thing, but... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruffboimags (talk • contribs) 08:10, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Added a reference from Heinlein's "The Black Pits of Luna" which tends to support that this is a knife-throwing game. There's an additional line in the short story, "He nearly put my eye out with the knife [...]" that doesn't make sense if this is a "don't stab your hand" game as no one would have their eye so close to someone else's hand. TrivialJim (talk) 20:11, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Which sense of "mumble" is used
[edit source]The quoted source says: "When the loser would go to remove the peg, it would sound as if he or she was mumbling." I find this hard to believe though. An older sense of "mumble" (see Wiktionary or any large dictionary) was simply to chew on something (without making any vocal sound): this seems to make more sense for this game. ~2026-42290-56 (talk) 11:19, 31 July 2026 (UTC)