The game had spread to California, Florida and Texas. SkyBox International and Marvel added the product to their lines under the names Sk圜aps and Hero Caps respectively. Seven other companies entered the milk cap field after a comic book and card industry convention in January 1993. With the end of the Pogs fad, Canada Games went out of business in 1997. Pogs were being handed out for opening bank accounts and in McDonald's Happy Meals. The Pog fad soared, and peaked in the mid-1990s. Milk caps returned to popularity when the World POG Federation and the Canada Games Company reintroduced them under the Pog brand name in the 1990s.
Regular milk caps were used to throw at the stack and were able to flip the pile. Real milk caps had small staples in them which, when stacked, produced a random element to the game. By 1993, the previously obscure game of milk caps, which had almost been forgotten, was now played throughout the world. The game soon spread to the mainland, first surfacing in California, Texas, Oregon, and Washington before spreading to the rest of the country. The game quickly spread from Oahu's North Shore, and by early 1992, STANPAC Inc., the small Canadian packaging company that had been manufacturing the milk caps distributed by Haleakala Dairy on Maui (the same caps that were collected by Galbiso for her class), was printing millions of milk caps every week for shipment to the Hawaiian island chain. In 1991, Galbiso introduced the game she had played as a little girl to a new generation of students, soon incorporating milk caps into her fifth grade curriculum as a way of teaching math and as a non-violent alternative to other popular schoolyard games, such as dodgeball. The 1990s revival is credited to Blossom Galbiso, a teacher and guidance counselor who taught at Waialua Elementary School in Oahu.
With this revival, the Pog name began being used generically for the game. In 1991, Haleakala expanded to the more populated Oahu island, which led to a revival of the game. When Haleakala used the caps to successfully promote the 1971 introduction of their fruit drink POG, it led to a surge in similar promotions and milkcap collecting. Īfter new packaging made cardboard milk caps obsolete in the 1950s, manufacturers such as Haleakala Dairy and Orchards Hawaii occasionally distributed the caps as promotional items. There are cap collectors that have caps dating back to the 1940s and 1950s. The game of milk caps was played on the Hawaiian island of Maui as early as 1927. The game of milk caps possibly originated in Maui, Hawaii, during the 1920s or 1930s, or possibly with origins in Menko, a Japanese card game very similar to milk caps, which has been in existence since the 17th century. They were converted into paper format ( menko) during the Meiji period. Men'uchi from the Edo period were made from clay.
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