Board Games & Card Games : How to Play Jacks

Jacks is a game played with jacks and a rubber ball in which the ball is bounced and the player must see how many jacks they can pick up before catching the ball. Play jacks competitively or for fun with tips from a gaming specialist in this free video on fun games.

Expert: Windy St. George
Bio: Windy St. George has worked at Games of Berkeley for eight years. She is an expert in all types of card games, board games, tabletop games, RPGs, and miniatures.
Filmmaker: Sam Lee

Category:

Gaming

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• board games
• card games
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• chess
• dominoes
• cards
• RPG
• solitaire
• backgammon
• fun games

[100kieron]

@yamiyobi I gues yuor more of an xbox person but back in probaly the 70's jacks was the xbox

[1sbutteracarb]

i couldn't play it in a table tho. too high /lol childhood

[yamiyobi]

this game is stupid

[SkyOne1111]

They're playing it wrong though. You're supposed to toss the ball uphanded. Time to get a video on here to show how it's really done. What a fun game!!

[SkyOne1111]

Thanks goodness there's at least one video on YouTube featuring Jacks! A lot game. Oh what fun I had when I was a kid playing Jacks. We always spelled it Jax, though.

[feclips]

@bobwhang Jacks is not usually played in my country, and I needed to know how it works for a research. Stoned or not, I must thank the lady.

[haha045]

your supposed to through the ball up not just hit it down o.o

[bobwhang]

wtf wtf wtf. How stoned do you have to be to not know how to play jacks? How stoned do you have to be to even want to play jacks? How stoned is that lady? Answer: Really really stoned.

[buddyd007]

rsqwazy4life was first not me

[rsqwazy4life]

i was first muther fucker