- Use as earplug (for a go player already deaf in one ear).
- Monocle for a one-eyed go player.
- Put in your shoe to make you limp (or pocket as a contraceptive).
- To rub together with a penny if you don't have two.
- Substitute for a two-headed coin (to see who gets to play black).
- Weight on arm of record player when playing uneven records.
- Surprise centre for a chocolate.
- Draw noughts & crosses in sand.
- Place in collecting tin when broke and too embarrassed to refuse.
- Put on chain round neck as pendant.
- Put on chain and use to hypnotise opponent.
- Keep in fridge in case of nose bleeds.
- Squash creepy crawlies without getting finger squishy.
- Win skimming stones against opponent who has picked last pebble off beach.
- Keep toes apart while applying nail varnish.
- A paperweight to stop a stamp blowing away.
- Stick to toe of shoe for syncopated tap dancing.
- Safety device on milk bottle top to prevent blue tits getting the cream.
- Prop open cat's mouth when administering medication.
- Mount as a fridge magnet.
- Put on elastic and use as an eye patch for fancy dress pirates.
- In a Coke can behind the wedding car.
- Paint it red for Red Nose Day.
- Fashion earring.
- Discus for small animal.
- Device for sabotaging hoovers
- Mark place where seeds were planted.
- Make Newton's cradle.
- Tie into exotic hairstyle.
- As an assassination tool - just slip it into your opponent's mint imperials to make them choke.
- Grind up and add to enemy's food.
- Wedge it under a wobbly table leg so the live ones stay still.
- Part of a decorative flower arrangement - put in the water and watch it sparkle.
- A new form of computer storage - the ishi drive.
- A spare wheel for your nephew's toy car.
- Placed strategically on your score pad so your opponent can't see you've forgotten how to spell their name.
- Cake decoration.
- To measure the depth of a wishing well.
- Bead on a necklace.
- Ammunition for catapult.
- Circle template.
- To heighten - stick on the bottom of your shoe.
- Eye or button on a snowman.
- Nose plug - when swimming and to prevent snoring.
- Cork/bottlestop.
- Weightlifting equipment for ants.
- Bead for curtain that hangs in a doorway.
- Hopscotch stone.
- Substitute draughts piece.
- Melt down and reshape into something useful.
- Cracker novelty.
- Use in rattle/maracca.
- Play conkers with it.
- Finding a go stone in a haystack (less dangerous than a needle).
- Tiddlywink.
- Putting up a car exhaust pipe.
- To fill in your opponent's territory at the end of a game.
- Stepping stone in a miniature garden.
- Fake nail head on big old oak doors.
- Your travelling companion is asleep when you arrive to pick them up- throw stone at window to wake them
- Break in half when loved one goes to war as a broken token for identification or safe return.
- Practising CPR.
- Brooch.
- Pea for a pea shooter.
- Spot on a dalmation.
- Knock baby coconuts off stands.
- Carry in handbag in case of emergency.
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- Making imprints in the ground to fool a stalker (hop and print beside foot
to make Sherlock Holmes think you're a peg leg).
- Elementary juggling practice.
- As a gift to the go player who's "one go stone short of a full bowl".
- Substitute ice hockey puck.
- Put under your girlfriend's feather mattress to see if she's a princess.
- A go player's door knocker.
- Drop in your coffee - count the ripples.
- Sticking to the end of Nelson's telescope ("I see no ships!").
- For dropping into the conversation.
- Uncovering the numbers on a scratchcard.
- A free gift in a cereal packet ("Collect the set!").
- A plectrum for accompanying go songs.
- Put in the hole in the dyke when it's the little Dutch boy's bedtime.
- Attach to the end of index finger as a tobacco tamper for pipe smokers.
- Put in toilet cistern to reduce water usage.
- Hang from hat instead of corks.
- Throw at caterwauling cat
- Drop from Eiffel Tower to kill people.
- Use as bean in blind-baking of flan case.
- Block bagpipe drone.
- Ear for model of Mickey Mouse.
- Milk token.
- In gizzard of large bird for grinding food.
- Navel ornament.
- Base for a Subbuteo player.
- Training device for young snake learning to swallow eggs.
- Use as IOU in piggy bank.
- Make fake video of flying saucer.
- Paint brown and use as lentil decoy.
- Roughage.
- Counting bead on abacus.
- Carry in pocket to remind you of something.
- Put over eye to block light when snoozing.
- Worry bead.
- Use to test pockets for holes.
- Diminutive curling stone.
- Put up nose if you need an excuse to visit hospital casualty department.
- Make into button.
- Hang from Christmas tree.
- Use as bait in go-player trap.
- Hide it and play hunt the go stone.
- Hold black piece in front of sun to simulate eclipse.
- Hide in Christmas pudding if you can't afford sixpence.
- Experiment to see if dropped black and white pieces fall at same speed.
- Chopsticks practice object.
- Store in freezer, then put down someone's neck to administer shock.
- Hollow out and use to smuggle cocaine.
- Feed to Venus fly trap that you don't like.
- Study thermodynamics by seeing which colour gets hotter in sun.
- Keep hanky on head from blowing away in windy resort.
- Use as spot on sculpture of fly agaric.
- Throw into path of pursuing cyclist to disrupt them.
- Pass off as rare flat pearl.
- Fish tank ornament.
- Carry white stone to be seen in dark.
- Use as fullstop on advertising billboard.
- Use on Pearly King costume.
- Test visibility distance in fog.
- Make message in sand when marooned on desert island.
- Have implanted under scalp to pass height requirement for job.
- Feed to ducks to make them sink.
- Sew onto jumper to make designer garment.
- Put in hat in case you need to nut someone.
- Tape over heart to deflect bullets.
- Jam up slot machines.
- When playing go outdoors on a hot day and troubled by wasps, spread with jam and place at a distance.
- To jam the treadmill wheel of your opponent's hamster-powered computer.
- Door stop in a doll's house.
- Ballast on a hot air balloon.
- An emergency replacement for your glass eye.
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