The wide range of local versions of the game, with and without hack scoring, added to the colourful confusion - and ensured that the 'old hands' were invariably victorious against the eager young tiggers.
I'd forgotten about short broom handles - another tradition that probably no longer exists.
The version I played most referred to 'walls' rather than 'blobs' and 'mixey-blobs' didn't exist. Also, using both 'bones' to move one 'uck' was know as 'diddly dum-ing' (running like a train). 'Lurking' was a useful tactic, but beware of the 'wall' (or 'blob') that coud lead to a 'self-hack' on your own 'donk' - a 'quad hack' score to the oppostion and both your 'ucks' back to base!
'Suckbacks' and 'blowbacks' from the 'tube' were indeed often employed, 'syphing on the donk' was another colourful term as has been said.
The best thing in my view about Uckers (apart from the associated team-building and morale raising) was that it wasn't the first team home who won, but the team with the higher hack score. So that added an extra dimension to the game and introduced even more devious tactics!
Uckers without hacks scores is merely hard Ludo!