To Lose Your Marbles

You may move your rows of marbles up or down or move a specially designated pitch line from right to left in order to get 3 4 or 5 similarly colored marbles in an unbroken horizontal array.

To lose your marbles.

Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls. Become irrational or senile.

In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt. Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase. The goal of lose your marbles which is quite aptly named is to get rid of all your marbles as fast as you can. To become of unsound mind.

Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. To become of unsound mind.

Once you do so they disappear sometimes dumping marbles on your opponent but more and more marbles keep dropping down from the top. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind.