In a message dated 10/7/2002 8:47:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, thos@comcast.net writes: > > The object of that game was to take your colored egg,that you found in your > shoe [that you hid for the Easter bunny under your bed]and point the blunt > side up and let someone take the blunt side of their egg and smash it > against yours.Then you hit their pointed egg against their pointed egg > end.Whoever had at least one side still not smashed won the game. > > I always tried to win by not cracking any sides of my hard boiled egg so I > didn't have to eat it.I detested Easter eggs!I loved to decorate them,but > not eat them.Give me "dippy eggs"[sunny side up ] any day of the week over > hard boiled! > > Anyone else play "Uppers",or it is only our weird family tradition? > I thought this was a "Greek" tradition. I had never heard of it until I married. I being German, he being Greek. We colored the eggs red, first thing on Easter morning we'd select the egg we thought would crack the best and whoever was left with the uncracked egg was a "winner". He took all the other eggs. I should say, if you cracked someones egg, you got to take the egg. Of course, I made egg salad! Ann