Pogs

Pogs (also Milkcaps) is the name of a popular game that was popular from the early-to-mid-1990s. It got its name from POG, a brand of fruit juice (made from passion fruit, orange and guava); the caps of POG bottles were originally used to play the game. more...

Pog originated in Hawaii around the 1930s, and was repopularized when the Canada Games Company reintroduced them to the American mainstream public in the mid-1990s, where they became popular with pre-teens. It is possible that the game traced its origins to the Japanese card game called Menko.

Game basics

The classic game involves one player picking a number of pogs (cardboard disks), and the other player matching this number. All the pogs are stacked face down, and then one player throws a Slammer (a thicker, heavier version of a pog often made from plastic or steel - also known as a 'kini') at them with the goal of turning over as many as possible. Those which turn over go to the person who threw the slammer, and the rest stay in the game for the other person's turn. The game continues until all the pogs have been flipped, when a new game begins with the starting player alternating between the two. The game can also be played with more than two players, with both the turns and starting players moving in a predefined order through the group.

Note: The original game in Hawaii in the early 30s did not include a "Slammer." The real pog milk caps had small staples in them which, when stacked, produced a random element to the game. Regular pog milk caps were used to throw at the stack and were able to flip the pile.

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