Mumblety-Peg
- A single pocketknife with a sturdy blade
- Soft open ground or grass to throw into
Players take turns performing an agreed sequence of knife tosses, each one flipping the knife off a different part of the hand, arm, or body so that it sticks blade-first into the ground.
The sequence typically starts with simple tosses off the open palm and progresses to trickier flips off the back of the hand, elbow, shoulder, or forehead.
A toss only counts as successful if the blade sticks upright in the ground; a toss that lands flat or fails to stick means that player's turn ends immediately.
Players move through the sequence one trick at a time, only advancing to the next trick in the list after successfully completing the current one.
Turns rotate to the next player whenever a toss fails, with each player resuming their own progress through the sequence on their next turn.
The first player to complete every trick in the full agreed sequence is declared the winner.