Button Soccer is, apparently, a combination of tiddlywinks and Subbuteo . I learned about it from this Wikipedia article. Though I especially liked this site, because it shows how to play the game using unofficial, junk-like buttons.

There are two miniature goals - you could make them out of cereal boxes if you so desired. Big, or heftier buttons are used as shooters. Smaller buttons as players. You try to shoot (tiddle) one of the players (buttons)  into a small ball (one of those little yarn balls would be perfect).

There are many delicious variations - and, of course, the ideal would be for you to make up your own. So, for example, what happens when you tiddle one of your buttons into an opponent's button? Some say it's a foul. Some say you get to tiddle again. What if the ball hits an opposing player? What kind of button should the goalkeeper be? Perhaps not a button at all. Perhaps a wooden block, or a pencil even. 

And so on, and so on, merrily, ever so merrily into the fields of play.

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