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Skelsie??? Any Brooklyn / NYC people???

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Can somebody explain what skelsie is??? I know it's a game but how do you play it??? All I know is it has something to do with melting wax to put in a cap from a bottle. How did you melt the wax??? Someone please explain.

I'm a writer and I want to learn things about New York City.

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You mean the Skully (skelly,skelsies,skilsies)?
Old school game....
Here's a few links for U...from Brooklyn.

http://www.streetplay.com/skully/pieces....

http://www.lampos.com/brooklyn.htm...

http://www.deepfun.com/2005/03/skully.ht...
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I have lived in Brooklyn all my life and I have never heard of that game.
I believe it's called Skelly. I don't know if I spelled it right, but that's how it's pronounced. I know that different color wax is used in different bottle caps, but I don'tknow the rules.
This is discussed in the book _Fortress of Solitude_ by Jonathan Lethem.
I'm too recent a Brooklyn transplant to fully get it.
Brooklyn's the Skelly Capital of the World.

A playing board is drawn on the sidewalk with chalk. Your playing piece is usually a metal bottle cap (beer) - you fill it with something for more weight - melted candle wax, melted crayons or melted asphalt. You shoot the cap with your fingers, aim for the points on the board and then try to shoot your opponent's caps out of the box - till only the winner's cap is left.

Notorious B.I.G. mentions the game in his song
"Things Done Changed"
Remember back in the days, when n..... had waves
Gazelle shades, and corn braids
Pitchin pennies, honies had the high top jellies
Shootin SKELLY , m.................. was all friendly
Loungin at the barbeques, drinkin brews
with the neighborhood crews, hangin on the avenues
Turn your pagers, to nineteen ninety three, etc, etc, etc