There are varying rules for a conker fight, but these are the ones laid out by The Woodland Trust, so you can run your own back garden championships:
• Wrap the loose end of the string around your hand. One player should dangle their conker on about 25cm of string, keeping it absolutely still.
• The other player then swings their conker at it to try to break it.
• If the attacking player misses, they can have two more chances before it’s their opponent’s turn.
• Take turns until one of the conkers breaks and you have a winner.
• A new conker is called a ‘none-er’ as it hasn’t beaten anyone yet. When it beats another conker, it’s a ‘one-er’. If it beats another, it becomes a ‘two-er’ and so on.…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2018