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Streetplay's mission is to document the great city games that we know and love. Over the years, we've wanted to allow our readers to collaborate with us, to make our knowledge base bigger and better. Now, technology has caught up with our desire and we're proud to announce the Streetplay Wiki (SPwiki for short).

Are there games you played in the street as a city youth? Are you a reasonably good writer with attention to detail? Sign up for a SPwiki account and help us make SPWiki the best web resource for urban games anyone can imagine.

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Some of the best street-themed artwork

We've assembled the Streetplay Galleries to present the work of professional artists who have documented the experience of play all over the world. Over the years, we've assembled some stunning exhibitions.

In this gallery, Streetplay Money, Donald Jefferes was "commissioned" to design the plates for our illegal tender. Print out as many copies as you want: you won't get rich, but you will get laughs.

Featured articles

Hanging out: Odd man out
What happens when you choose up sides and one person is left over? We think this where the term was coined.

Streeplay photos: Streets
A collection of general photography featuring streets and the games we play in them.

A Playful World: Spain
The Playful World project documents the games and play of children from different places around the globe, in this case, Spain. Please share the joyful aspects of our shared cultures.

Member spotlight: Willie Blas
A lot of our readers have shared their stories with us first-hand in our Member Spotlight section. Here, Willie Blas tells us about his West Coast style self-made stickball bats.

Streetplay postcards
You can share Streetplay goodness via e-mail: just pick out one of the cool pictures and send it to a friend!

Site highlights

In Tribute: Steve Mercado, FDNY
Steve Mercado, a leader in the stickball community, was one of the brave firefighters lost in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This is our tribute to him.
Streetplay at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The Smithsonian Institution invited us to DC to introduce America to our favorite games. Read how it went!
Essays and Commentary
We're often asked to comment upon the benefits kids get through unsupervised, ad hoc play. Here, we address the evaporation of such activity in modern times
Streetplay Cineplex
Throw some popcorn in the microwave, grab a jumbo-sized soda and watch street games in motion right on your computer!
Streetplay Links
Maybe we're not Google, but we take a shot at listing some of our favorite play-related websites here.

Featured game: Marbles

Marbles is one of the many games we cover in The Games section.

Bernie DeKoven's Junklog
Junkyard Sports site syndication

Shootball
Shootball ...is a new sport in ubiquitous computing. This game is playing with tangible ball that can control movies displayed in surrounding screens....

Junkyard Sports in the Funny Paper
Getting the idea of Junkyard Sports to the masses, especially to the family masses, seems to be proceeding apace - a very slow pace, but proceeding nevertheless....

Rock-It-Ball
Rock-it-Ball is played with something like a soft tennis ball and plastic sticks with scoops on each end. It's a combination of something like wall...

Leet - the sport
It's called Leet (http: playleet.com index). So, play the video (http: www.youtube.com watch?v=VHTgTwclL-g eurl=http: www.blogger.com post-create.g?blogID=3510012)...

Aesthletics - sports artists
Aesthletics (http: art.rutgers.edu 7Erussotti aesthletics Aesthletics.html) with an...

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