Buckeyes

I don't know what buckeyes are but they look like what we call 'conkers' or horse chestnuts. I know that their name comes from their resemblance to the eyeball of a buck (which in my language means a young male deer, when it's grown but before it becomes a stag, but may mean something else to you). Horse chestnuts are really beautiful things when new. In early summer the trees grow white spikes of flowers (commonly known as 'candles') and these then produce seeds at about this time of the year which are large and spiny and, when broken open, contain a large and very shiny brown - and completely inedible - 'conker'. It's called a 'conker' because we used to dry them carefully, pierce them and thread them on strings to play a game where one person hits another person's conker as hard as he can with his, the object being to break (or 'conquer') the opponent's one, though one is almost as likely to break one's own! A conker becomes prized because the more of its opponents' ones it smashes, the higher its score. If it smashes one, it is called a 'oner' and if the one it smashes is already a 'twoer' or a 'threeer', it adds the smashed opponent's score to its own and becomes a 'threeer' or a 'fourer' (or even more, depending on how many it has scored already). I have to say that absolute honour reigns among players of this game and you can (nearly) always trust players to accurately rate their weapons. At least, the rogues are quite quickly spotted and boycotted! Do you play games like this with buckeyes? And are buckeyes edible or useful in any other way?

they look like chestnuts. can you eat those? I am not familiar with those

I’ve always heard that buckeyes brought good luck. I used to see buckeye bushes when I lived out in the country , haven’t seen them in a long time.

Send me few I barely need those (you said it was a good luck charm)

Have never tried these but have heard about the good luck. Maybe it will come true for you.

I wish you a good health. That also a good luck!