Talk:Thumb war

Thumb debate

I had always learned the second part of the rhyme as "Five, six, seven, eight, I declare a thumb debate." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.123.238.196 (talk) 08:31, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Never heard that. Jason Quinn (talk) 23:43, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

I’ve always heard the second part as “Five, six, seven, eight, open up the war gates.” 2001:48F8:9021:108E:C197:F348:5ED3:46C9 (talk) 23:37, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Also FYI, the IP just above is me, just before I had an account. Just FYI. 4D4850 (talk) 13:48, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

What’s a “Monkey Grip”??

As part of the description, the term “Monkey Grip” is used without any explanation of what that is…Jock123 (talk) 19:39, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

It's apparently meant to be the standard thumb war grip as shown in the photo. But I've never heard it called that and may just be some local terminology for it. Tagged it with a "clarify span" tag. Jason Quinn (talk) 23:43, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

History

A simple Google Books search for the phrases "thumb-wrestling," "thumb-wrestle," etc. with the time limited to the years before 1930 turns up numerous references to the sport from the period 1870-1920. Obviously, then, neither Paul Davidson's grandfather nor Julian Koenig can possibly be the inventor. Would that be enough to justify deleting the reference to their claims, or would such deletion constitute an unacceptable instance of Original Research? 206.208.105.129 (talk) 14:57, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Sneak attacks

'[S]neak attacks, which involve using your pointer finger to take over the opponent' 'Take over'? - not clear

Notreallydavid (talk) 11:16, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

It’s basically cheating by using your pointer finger to grab your opponents thumb and/or startle them out of their strategy. 2001:48F8:9021:108E:C197:F348:5ED3:46C9 (talk) 23:37, 17 January 2021 (UTC)