Yeah, I found sources that had both versions for that, but decided to go with faceup because I think more of the sources said that (and the rest of the content creators who made custom pogs said they play face up). I guess it also looks better in pictures and video if you have the stack face up?
Board Game Blitz the original WPF rules state face up as well. I'm just saying that for the longevity of the pogs, playing facedown makes them last longer. Especially if you use metal slammers. I run a pog community known as the POG Syndicate. We always play for keeps and face down. We also use the "Biff and add" rule.
Joe Kenyon yup, that makes sense! I’m definitely not a pog expert (I’ll publish my “blooper” video soon) so I assume people who actually play often will play face down.
Joe Kenyon exactly bro!! I don’t know why people would ever play face up. First off, you damage the graphics on the POG...second, when you have them face down and you slam them, seeing which ones flip and what you got is way more rewarding.
Well 25 years later i know how to play. I had one hell of a collection but no one knew how to really play lol. We used to just collect and show each other our badass slammers
I recall playing this in the middle of class. Id throw down a few pogs on the carpeted floor when the teacher was writing on the board, and then the kid sitting next to me would throw down the same amount. A quick light toss of the slammer and they would usually all spring up & over in one go. I blame the carpet. Whoever went first usually won. It was like a 10 second game haha
This video should be titled: how not to play pogs. 1. You always play for keeps. That’s like playing poker just to return the chips you have won, that makes no sense. 2. You never stack the pogs with the picture side up. Slamming the picture side ruins the pog. Some players may have rare collectible pogs. Always show respect. This is serious business. 3. The first player to slam has a major advantage. Deciding who goes first is done by paper rock scissor. It makes the game so much more exciting! That’s where the mind games comes into play. 4: There is also a lot of rules of conduct and how to behave before during and after a game. 5: The game is strategy and technique. The thin light plastic slammers are used to flip shorter decks (1-5pogs) The thick plastic and wooden slammers are used to flip medium sized decks. The heavy metal slammers, especially the sawblade slammers are used to flip huge decks. It is all about the flick of the wrist, the snap, force and angle of the slam. There is a lot of technique that goes into this and it takes a long time to master.
I don’t cover strategy (or outside game rules) in any instructional videos since they’re purely how to play the game, but that’s interesting to learn about the different slammers! When I made this video it was hard to find consistent or official rules - some of the sources had face up and some had face down, and I think I went with the world pog federation text I found which was face up at the time. I agree it should be face down, but it seems like the game has lots of different variant rules in different countries. When I made the video I don’t think I saw the Rock Paper Scissors thing either, but now I see it’s either that or a pog flip. I’m not sure how either of those works with more than two people though - is it a multiplayer Rock Paper Scissors?
We played by making a pile of pogs, not a stack. Also, we played with the pogs starting face down, and the pogs that were face up became yours FOREVER! We played in elementary and eventually the game was banned because it was seen as a form of gambling... I miss the 90's!
Haha yeah I think I they got banned in my school too because of gambling. I never actually played the game as a kid because I wanted to keep all my pogs!
Pogs were the THING when I was a kid! I remember stores having huge bins filled with them! We'd sometimes play an alternate version on the playground where the winner got to trade his slammer for one of the loser's instead of keeping the Pogs we had won.
It seems like when not playing for keeps, you should alternate whose pogs you're using so that the entire stack belongs to one owner each game. If you mix them, it's easy to forget (or lie about) who started with what.
Yeah, in practice that’s probably the way to do it when playing not for keeps. Although kids tend to have a good memory about things like knowing which is theirs!
yeh suppose to put pogs face down so they dont get wrecked from slammer powers. thats how we did it on the streetz. the way shown is hard to watch lol. pog abuse.
Wilken Winter when I was looking up the rules there were sources that had both versions (one said face up, but many people house rule face down so they don’t damage the pogs). I asked the other people who were making custom pogs and they voted face up so that’s what I decided to go with. But obviously you can house rule whatever way you like, as long as you remember so you know which are flipped!
yeah definitely one of those things where we just made up the rules as we went and im sure rules varied by neighborhood/school. nobody had an official rule book back then they could look up. we use to have all kinds of special rules for things like "poison". special effects. I have great memories of this game. We use to sell pogs, slammers and tube cases that we kept in glass cases back then at the swap meets. and would sell like crazy. good video, glad u talked about it.
If you're playing for keeps, you don't need to, since you end up keeping whichever ones you flipped. I didn't actually play pogs much as a kid, but since we collected them we might have remembered which were ours just because we knew which ones we had.
We played completely wrong in my hood wow lmfao we would take like 20 or 25 pogs and one slammer a piece and we flipped for who went first then my opponent puts down a pog and id take my slammer and if i flipped his pog on its back it was mine no stacking or the other stuff just its mine if i flip it lol and when you didnt have no more you would run home pissed and grab a better slammer and 25 and try to win your pogs back it was like dice so addicting we had side bets of who would win betting dollars my brother was like a bookie/manager and i was his prize fighter with a poison slammer beating kids from other schools and neighborhoods. Kids crying and getting intonfights cause the lost their pogs or borrowed their friends or older brothers pogs and it got took rofl hahahhahahaha
How did this become popular? I remember in High School when these things caught on and took over my local comic book/collectibles store. I was not pleased lol
@@chuck00x For me, it was mostly collecting and I didn't play the game much. Different sets of pogs came in snacks (I got some from chip bags) and I wanted to get them all. I think my brother got a full set of Batman ones.
Seems like the number of pogs each player puts in should be standardized. The first person to slam a super tall tower is going to get a crazy amount on the first throw without even trying.
So, play for keeps is a good strategy for the company to keep making money as the lovers would havevto keep buying replacement pogs! Apparently, the game was banned from schools because it was considered a form of gambling! LOL... That MUST be the reason I keep playing the lotto!
Haha I'm not sure where you get regular ones - we (and some other podcasts) got custom ones made (at custompogs.com) for a fun thing to give away at conventions
Oh yes there were. Growing up this was serious business. I’ve seen plenty of kids getting beat up pretty bad after cheating or bad conduct. The streets were unforgiving. Pog was created to be played at the pavement not on a table.
Thank you, me and my college buddy were absolutely baffled by some white man's in-his-living-room tutorial. Bless your heart, I hope you have a great year :smileyface:
Me and my friends play with the pogs face down, that way the slammer doesn't ruin the designs on the faces. Great quick tutorial!
Yeah, I found sources that had both versions for that, but decided to go with faceup because I think more of the sources said that (and the rest of the content creators who made custom pogs said they play face up). I guess it also looks better in pictures and video if you have the stack face up?
Board Game Blitz the original WPF rules state face up as well. I'm just saying that for the longevity of the pogs, playing facedown makes them last longer. Especially if you use metal slammers. I run a pog community known as the POG Syndicate. We always play for keeps and face down. We also use the "Biff and add" rule.
Joe Kenyon yup, that makes sense! I’m definitely not a pog expert (I’ll publish my “blooper” video soon) so I assume people who actually play often will play face down.
Joe Kenyon exactly bro!! I don’t know why people would ever play face up. First off, you damage the graphics on the POG...second, when you have them face down and you slam them, seeing which ones flip and what you got is way more rewarding.
Joe Kenyon what is a “biff and add” rule?
Well 25 years later i know how to play. I had one hell of a collection but no one knew how to really play lol. We used to just collect and show each other our badass slammers
right? We used to collect them in school, and this is the first time I've heard that you play a game with them...lol
Lol yea
I recall playing this in the middle of class. Id throw down a few pogs on the carpeted floor when the teacher was writing on the board, and then the kid sitting next to me would throw down the same amount. A quick light toss of the slammer and they would usually all spring up & over in one go. I blame the carpet. Whoever went first usually won. It was like a 10 second game haha
Haha yeah there’s definitely a first player advantage!
What we use is just a regular pog as a slammer, so we have to hit it hard
Oh my god! I remember loving Pogs but not how to play! This was great! 😄💗
Thanks! Hope you can enjoy playing again sometime!
@@BoardGameBlitz Thanks! That would be fun!
pogchamp
This video should be titled: how not to play pogs.
1. You always play for keeps. That’s like playing poker just to return the chips you have won, that makes no sense.
2. You never stack the pogs with the picture side up. Slamming the picture side ruins the pog. Some players may have rare collectible pogs. Always show respect. This is serious business.
3. The first player to slam has a major advantage. Deciding who goes first is done by paper rock scissor. It makes the game so much more exciting! That’s where the mind games comes into play.
4: There is also a lot of rules of conduct and how to behave before during and after
a game.
5: The game is strategy and technique.
The thin light plastic slammers are used to flip shorter decks (1-5pogs)
The thick plastic and wooden slammers are used to flip medium sized decks.
The heavy metal slammers, especially the sawblade slammers are used to flip huge decks. It is all about the flick of the wrist, the snap, force and angle of the slam. There is a lot of technique that goes into this and it takes a long time to master.
I don’t cover strategy (or outside game rules) in any instructional videos since they’re purely how to play the game, but that’s interesting to learn about the different slammers!
When I made this video it was hard to find consistent or official rules - some of the sources had face up and some had face down, and I think I went with the world pog federation text I found which was face up at the time. I agree it should be face down, but it seems like the game has lots of different variant rules in different countries.
When I made the video I don’t think I saw the Rock Paper Scissors thing either, but now I see it’s either that or a pog flip. I’m not sure how either of those works with more than two people though - is it a multiplayer Rock Paper Scissors?
We played by making a pile of pogs, not a stack. Also, we played with the pogs starting face down, and the pogs that were face up became yours FOREVER! We played in elementary and eventually the game was banned because it was seen as a form of gambling... I miss the 90's!
Haha yeah I think I they got banned in my school too because of gambling. I never actually played the game as a kid because I wanted to keep all my pogs!
@@BoardGameBlitz Good on you for replying to comments from a video posted so long ago!
A pile? Blasphemous! haha
Pogs were the THING when I was a kid! I remember stores having huge bins filled with them! We'd sometimes play an alternate version on the playground where the winner got to trade his slammer for one of the loser's instead of keeping the Pogs we had won.
That’s neat! I don’t think I ever actually played the game as a kid, just liked collecting the pogs.
Seems to me this would severely favor the first player.
Haha yeah it definitely does!
see my story above haha
Very great tutorial
It seems like when not playing for keeps, you should alternate whose pogs you're using so that the entire stack belongs to one owner each game. If you mix them, it's easy to forget (or lie about) who started with what.
Yeah, in practice that’s probably the way to do it when playing not for keeps. Although kids tend to have a good memory about things like knowing which is theirs!
Yeah but what about ( poison )
Did you say POGcast?
yeh suppose to put pogs face down so they dont get wrecked from slammer powers. thats how we did it on the streetz. the way shown is hard to watch lol. pog abuse.
Wilken Winter when I was looking up the rules there were sources that had both versions (one said face up, but many people house rule face down so they don’t damage the pogs). I asked the other people who were making custom pogs and they voted face up so that’s what I decided to go with. But obviously you can house rule whatever way you like, as long as you remember so you know which are flipped!
yeah definitely one of those things where we just made up the rules as we went and im sure rules varied by neighborhood/school. nobody had an official rule book back then they could look up. we use to have all kinds of special rules for things like "poison". special effects. I have great memories of this game. We use to sell pogs, slammers and tube cases that we kept in glass cases back then at the swap meets. and would sell like crazy. good video, glad u talked about it.
Yo, that Mufasa is worth at least 3 flaming 8 ball skulls
How can you remember which pogs are yours? I wouldn't be able to remember.
If you're playing for keeps, you don't need to, since you end up keeping whichever ones you flipped. I didn't actually play pogs much as a kid, but since we collected them we might have remembered which were ours just because we knew which ones we had.
I loved pogs when I was 5. now I dont know why lol
Haha I'm pretty sure a big part of it was the collectable nature of it. There were so many different sets with different characters!
@@BoardGameBlitz thats true! I remember there being so many cool ones.
We played completely wrong in my hood wow lmfao we would take like 20 or 25 pogs and one slammer a piece and we flipped for who went first then my opponent puts down a pog and id take my slammer and if i flipped his pog on its back it was mine no stacking or the other stuff just its mine if i flip it lol and when you didnt have no more you would run home pissed and grab a better slammer and 25 and try to win your pogs back it was like dice so addicting we had side bets of who would win betting dollars my brother was like a bookie/manager and i was his prize fighter with a poison slammer beating kids from other schools and neighborhoods. Kids crying and getting intonfights cause the lost their pogs or borrowed their friends or older brothers pogs and it got took rofl hahahhahahaha
How did this become popular? I remember in High School when these things caught on and took over my local comic book/collectibles store. I was not pleased lol
It was right before Pokemon was released and MTG started to catch on.
Monkeyb00y I guess, but it just doesn’t seem like fun to me. I don’t even own pogs and I don’t want anyone taking mine from a game so random. 🤷🏻♂️
@@chuck00x For me, it was mostly collecting and I didn't play the game much. Different sets of pogs came in snacks (I got some from chip bags) and I wanted to get them all. I think my brother got a full set of Batman ones.
@Loyd Fox alot of things in life are random, maybe if u trued itbwouldve been fun
@@BoardGameBlitz collection would have been where it would have gotten me.
How did you make your own pogs?
Wrim Unboxed we got them from custompogs.com
Great! Thanks for the link.
Here from cross counter
WATS POGS
Lol pogcast
So there was a point to these...
Well, there was also the point of trying to get all the cool designs that you liked! 😅
I remember we made a bong.
Wow😀
YOU MUST BE A PILIPINO TO PLAY WRITE
Sino pilipino
Me
Great video thanks. But goodness me what a dreadful game ... No wonder we never played it as kids.
I didn’t really play it but I loved collecting them!
Why dreadful ? Actually sounds fun imo, and Actually i did have these but no idea what to w them
I was pretty sure it was that simple, but I thought there had to be more. Thanks for the quick and easy explanation.
Seems like the number of pogs each player puts in should be standardized. The first person to slam a super tall tower is going to get a crazy amount on the first throw without even trying.
Yeah there’s a definite first player advantage!
So, play for keeps is a good strategy for the company to keep making money as the lovers would havevto keep buying replacement pogs!
Apparently, the game was banned from schools because it was considered a form of gambling! LOL... That MUST be the reason I keep playing the lotto!
Haha yeah pogs and Magic The Gathering was banned at my school!
Where can you buy pogs? If this comes back as a trend I’m gonna lose it.
Haha I'm not sure where you get regular ones - we (and some other podcasts) got custom ones made (at custompogs.com) for a fun thing to give away at conventions
Did you know I'm fram Philippines and I can speak tagalog hello po ako po si veyron tapos marunong ako mag pogs
Did you know that popular in the Philippines is pogs
I didn’t realize it was still popular in the Philippines! I read that there are a lot of variations around the world too.
damn this game was shit, how did this ever take off?
Bc it was all there was... Internet and phones weren't a thing hardly.
How to play: Poggers
What a boring pointless game, now I remember why I hated it.
On the streets, there were no rules.
Oh yes there were. Growing up this was serious business. I’ve seen plenty of kids getting beat up pretty bad after cheating or bad conduct. The streets were unforgiving. Pog was created to be played at the pavement not on a table.
When I was young we played Roundup or black top or pom pom
Alf is back in pog form
Gunna cost you an arm and a soul now a days
How about filipino rules
I couldn’t find anything specifically different when I searched for Filipino rules - what are the differences?
Filipino version they dont have slammers you should use pogs the cardboarn ones
Hey Zac and Luis, add one more to the count on this video. 😈
Is she from the TV show, "The Middle" ??
No . he's from that movie " dazed and confused"
@@macaronisalad5 ha ha!! Mitch!!
Poggers
Thank you, me and my college buddy were absolutely baffled by some white man's in-his-living-room tutorial. Bless your heart, I hope you have a great year :smileyface: