Try This at Home

To the Editors: If I read Catherine Nicholson correctly [“Right Busy with Sticks and Spales,” NYR, June 22], she lists “conkers” among the “otherwise unrecoverable” dialect of games. In 1970 I went to the Mayfair School in Cambridge, England, and I learned to play a game called conkers, in which children would pierce horse chestnuts […]