Among other things, Stefan Viljoen saw fit to write:

> Yes, I remember them - used to play with them at school (primary school).
> We used to make a little hole and then then roll them toward the hole -
> can't remember the rules, but somehow you could take another guys marbles
> if yours landed closest or something.

You had to shoot others' marbles with yours and then send yours to the hole.
Something like that. There were also metallic balls (sometimes from ball
bearings), and mirrorred and semi-mirrored iridescent glass ones, and
ceramic ones with coloured "speckles"... I think I have a bunch of them
somewhere in my room.

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