Uckers Dictionary
 

Does anyone in the services still play?

Can you remind those of us who have forgotten the many "technical" terms and their meanings?

I remember how to play, more or less, and am trying to coach some civvies in my local - the games are great but the banter just isnt there.

Certainly do still play,

Snakes Eyes: Double 1 on first throw and all bits out

Blob: Stack of pieces same colour

Mixi-Blob: Stack of pieces different colours

Timber Shifting: Wild accusation that you have moved a piece/pieces too many places!!

Just a few for you :O

Suck backs

Blow backs

Six throwing b@stard

Ease on doubles, split on sixes

Freddy Facesaver

8 piece home dicking

Less flex than a Pifco travel iron

You can never have enough blobs

Know your uckers board

Too much, too soon

Mexican shuffle

The biggest mixie in the world

Tactical pigmy

:cool:

TOG

Many a happy memory playing the dark blue, and ultimately beating them in the Northwood marathon uckers series of 1998. Final score RAF 37 - 34 RN. Many a long face :ok:

Nearly "8 pieced them in harbour", but they got one bit out and "steamed" it round....."Sixy throwing :mad:" nearly "Upboarded" that day. "Ludo playing ba$tards"

The unit was fully purple, and the orderly officer (A cavalry type) came in one evening and pronounced "Ah Chuckas" we wet ourselves!

Didn't play WAFU's rules but know that they had "Blow throughs" and "Suck Backs"

Haven't been to Pompey for a while, but heard that Joanna's, The RN School of Dancing had closed....RIP

Throbs - 3 Piece Blob

"Licking round the end of your flue" - A variation of the blow-back requiring pretty exacting bones.

If you throbbed on his knob prior to his chute (3 on 1 = 4), you controlled the whole game. Only a double 6 followed by another double 6 could allow you to "cream over" to get home, but the problem remained unless that colour decided to "break and run". This game was purely spectator sport; the players threw the dice and the onlookers called the shots.

Then one gloomy day on 206 in 1990, the new Boss appeared in the crewroom and said if we had enough time to play Uckers we must all be 'B' Cats - Demise of Uckers !

Can't mention his name, lest I get fined a bottle of port, but it is an anagram of "Barrin McLean"

CXX later devised a game called "Mexis" - mainly used on detachment - and controlled by a Chairman whose decision is final

Guarranteed to make you feel unwell

Anyone else played this?

buoy15

..but at least "barrin" managed to keep smiling and we all had so much fun when he was there.

Oh no, my mistake.

2P

Well, we did on the other squadrons :D

Bring back 924 Sqn, I say

Yeller

Good spot

Forgot about that, Thank you!

I can remember well one of the fairies searching for the rules on the underside of the table and the new WO getting a little concerned about how seriously the game was taken.

Safety_Helmut :uhoh:

Yes, I was going to mention the 'Rule Check'

As a young lad I was never allowed to beat the crusty old Sgt as he would do a rule check if I got close to victory.

"Siffing on his donk" - ISTR meant being on the square behind the opposition, but only applied if you were equally "blobbed"!


Stik

Acey F pigs! 1 & 2 = double (double) of your choice

Basics Gents. Or did I just miss this one, blame the shiraz. Soz

Running Blowbacks, flying suckbacks and my own personal favourite ....... Scuttering Throbbacks.

Tried to teach some USAF types on Det many years ago. I can still see their faces when their brains reached rule overload.

Mixiblobs and Mixithrobs were short lived creatures as they were very vulnerable to sucking and blowing.

Many a game ended in a bout of extreme violence and the reason all Military brooms have very short handles! :8

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!

ISTR a long standing thread on Uckers a while back. It ran to many pages and most of the (variations of) rules were covered there. :ok: IMRC it was around 98/99 so it may still be in PPRuNe Archives. A thoroughly entertaining thread and full of valuable information!

Seem to remember that a six and a one (known as a 'chesty yid') was referred to as 'an Alma Cogan'.

Not that one BEags, much older. It may have been lost when PPRuNe changed servers/hosts. Definately the end of the 90's.