Anyone remember Pencil Break?

Damn. I sucked at pencil break. Half the time I broke my own pencil on the pullback.

I liked that game "slaps" where you place your hands on top of someone else's and you have to move them when you think they're trying to pull their hands out from under yours and slap them.

 

Once the pencil break phenomenon hit in 5th grade, the faculty quickly outlawed it. There was this one guy, Joe Garcia who was an absolute beast. Then it was discovered that he put extra lead fish weights in his pencil under the eraser.

 

There was one where you had your hands out and the other person would try to slap it. You try to pull your hands quickly back before getting hit.

 

I particularly despised "Thumps" where you just flicked the other guy's cupped hands until one of you gave up. Pretty pointless game.

 

Oops. AntiSonic already posted it.

 

Ah, pencil break. I remember that, I remember people trying to use those jumbo sized pencils, people tried to use chop sticks, we ripped the erasers away from the pencils and bit the metal casing of the erasers down to form an miniature axe.

 

i play that with my 6 year old son. but we usually play "rock, paper, scissors."

 

Pee-O-POD

Who could stand the furthest from the toilet and still make it in..

 

here are some more games I remember:
Bloody Knuckles
Paper football
flicking the tabs of a coke can

Some great times

 

I hated the kids that cheated by keeping their pointer on top of the pencil and pushing through

 

loved paper football. we used also play a game that involved our knuckles that is similiar to hand slaps. i don't remember calling it bloody knuckles though. you and your opponent would stand in front of each other with closed fists. if you were on the offensive you would try to hit your opponents hands before they moved them. it was alot more painful than hand slaps.

we also played the "pushing off" game. stand in front of your opponent and try to knock them off balance either by pushing off each other's hands or faking the push. you weren't allowed to move your feet.

 

Of course. You're referring to the "Husky" pencil, which was banned from pencil break early on. If you bit the end, then you could tear through anything.

 

Four Square

Man I loved that game.

 

For some reason I remember these pencils that were made in China that would absolutely own all others in pencil break. I even had a fiberglass pencil that I would bring out when I really wanted to kick ass. Good times...

 

I remember the pencil fights and thumps. If you fliched or lost, the other guy would hit you in the arm real hard. I grew up in Louisiana, and thought we were the only ones playing these stupid games.

 

Four square was awesome.

 

Too funny.

yeah, i remember we had a pencil manchine that served up pencils for a quarter. When they put in NFL football pencils, and those "pencils from China," people would bring their life savings in quarters to buy them.

Were the "pencils from China," covered in black with rainbow confetti on them?


We had some pencils laying around at work, so we started playing pencil break. They were regular joe schmoe numebr 2 pencils, so it was boring.

Paper football was the ****. We would try to modify it by taping it tight, and all this other crap so it can fly. It was too fun.


We played thumps, knuckles, and slaps hand game.

I remember in fifth grade. We were so damn bored at recess. So we ended up playing hop scotch. Man, those were some big time battles.

As the days became weeks, we decided to up the challenge. There were pieces of concrete about the size of baseballs, sometimes footballs. We would use those to throw on the hop scotch thing.

Fun times indeed.

 

Good times. Thumps and pencil break were fun.

Trading punches got pretty brutal.

Not to take anything away from thumps. I've had pretty swolen fingers and knuckles back in the day. Some of the guys were just too good at it. The ones that could hits the same spot at maximum velocity.

ouch!