Spike the Potato

Posted by Miss Cellania in Home & Garden on November 15, 2008 at 1:53 pm


“Spike the Potato” is a highly amusing game for any party. All that is needed is a single large potato, a number of paper cones, and some needles.

Actually, according to the above blurb, you also need glue, string, and cotton balls. But you could skip a lot of this and use darts. Add a few cocktails per guest, and you’ll have a really swinging party! This amusement is from 1933. Link -Thanks, Lee!


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10 comments to "Spike the Potato"

  1. capella
    November 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Ahh, life before the Wii....

  2. Ali S.
    November 15th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    The drunk socialites version of pin the donkey.

  3. SenorMysterioso
    November 15th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    This is a gateway game, before long you'll be hunting man on a far off island in some bizarre blood sport.

    LOLed at "swing the tuber"

  4. casketstyles
    November 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    A better version of this game consists of setting up two 12oz cans of beer, two teams of however many, and some darts.

    one on each team, in turns, throws darts at the beer, if they miss they collect the darts and pass them to the next teammate, until they puncture the beer. whoever hit the can, then runs up finishes the now leaking beer, collects the darts and sets up another beer.

    one beer for each person playing. Mix in beerpong when that gets tiring.

  5. PaulVI
    November 15th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    Socialites? Yes. The potato represented the poor, and the paper cones represented "entitlement" (by bloodline or fortune), and the needle represented industry (materials and manufacturing) that they controlled and used to control the poor.

    Totally made that up. Or did I?

  6. lovemeordie236
    November 16th, 2008 at 12:32 am

    It would be interesting to go without modern electronics for a week or so just to find strange alternatives of entretainment such as this!

  7. Miss Cellania
    November 16th, 2008 at 1:16 am

    lovemeordie236, that's what cats are for!

  8. Brian Lutz
    November 16th, 2008 at 3:56 am

    It sounds like it What do you want to bet someone managed to find a way to get themself horrendously maimed while playing this?

  9. Rocky Rook
    November 16th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    Soon after the potato cannon was invented.

  10. Dixon
    November 16th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    As my mum used to say "you'll have someones eye out with that"


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