Old Yorkshire Games

[rescuer]

Can anyone help in explaining the following which are thought to be names of old Yorkshire games:
Passing the slod
Dratting and nurging
Flither picking
Rhubarb thrashing
Conger cuddling
Marrow dangling

[Stephen_G]

Rhubarb Thrashing is, apparently, a game for two people who stand in dustbins, facing each other, who are then blindfolded and take it in turns to hit each other with sticks of rhubarb. Winner by submission.

Soccer Saturday's Jeff Stelling is a Grand Master, I believe.

[rescuer]

My words! That was quick, Judge Nutmeg. Thanks

[dundurn]

Michael Bentine in "It's a Square World" had a 'game' called Drats or Dratting and where, if you completely mucked it up, you were said to have 'nurdled'. Does sound a bit like your 'dratting and nurgin', but was completely imaginary.

Conger cuddling is a sort of human bar skittles involving team members standing on wooden blocks, flowerpots, chairs etc trying to dodge being struck by a noxious object on a rope and at the same time not falling off their perches. The noxious object doesn't have to be a conger eel, but it helps! Very similar to 'flonking the dwile'.