Very British! I've heard of conkers, but had to google it up to see what exactly it entailed, lol.

Few more....

The Giant Conker
Billy the Conkerer
The Conker Champ
How to Conker the World
The Amazing Adventures of Connor the Conker: A Breezy Day

Yeah, growing up in British Columbia, it wasn't so foreign.

I had to look up "buckeyes" the other day. Funny - I remember Calvin belting Suzie with them in one of the Calvin and Hobbes books, but I never made the association. XD

Thanks so much! If you ever need a violent and somewhat painful but satisfying game to keep kids entertained with, bashing conkers/buckeyes on strings together to see who is the last one with an intact weapon is great knuckle-bruising fun... :D

Haha, sounds fun!

I'm sure overprotective schools and parents are thinking of ways to ban it as we speak, lol.

I'm trying to remember a British book I read that had a passing reference to cheating with conkers by shoe polish or a hardening agent of some kind... it wasn't central enough to remember, more of a character reference sort of thing. Like the guy was the sort who would cheat at conkers by _____ situation.

idk - you might be able to pass it off as a wholesome, old fashioned, puritanical pilgrim childhood game. Those sort of people dig that shit. XD

Naturally, kids being the same generation to generation, it was violent.... XD

I'm trying to think, did Roald Dahl mention conkers in one of his biographies? I feel like he did. He got up to plenty of old school British hijinks.

I added My Year just now - I haven't read it myself.