uffff, you transported me with your question, of course I played with marbles, I collected them since each of them were totally unique, there were not 2 equal, each design was totally unique.
We used to go to a clear place where there was not only compacted earth and we made a small hole, where a hole was made where the goal was to put the marble in the hole, if you did not then your opponent could hit your marble to get it out of the area close to the hole and thus prevent you from placing your marble inside the hole and win.
the winner usually kept the opponent's marble, so there were players who had their lucky marbles with which they always won their games and challenged the most skilled opponents.
seeing it from another point of view was the beginning of bets since we were just children ...