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Skittles is usually played indoors on a bowling alley, with one or more heavy balls, usually spherical but sometimes oblate, and several (most commonly nine) skittles, or small bowling pins. The general object of the game is to use the ball(s) to knock over the skittles, either specific ones or all of them, depending upon game variant.
Scale diagram of bowling pins and balls for several variants of the sport. The horizontal blue lines are 1 inch (2.5 cm) apart vertically. Bowling pins (historically also known as skittles or kegels) are upright elongated solids of rotation with a flat base for setting, usually made of wood (esp. maple) standing between 9 and 16 inches (23 and 41cm) tall.
The table skittle alley. The table skittles alley consists of a sloping, framed playing surface, the table skittles board. This is usually placed on a waist-high table. The game is played with a wooden spinning top, which is used to try to knock down as many of the nine wooden pins as possible. The dimensions of the board are 82 cm x 41 cm.
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Nine-pin bowler in East Germany, 1976. This game is played by rolling a ball down an alley towards nine pins. There are three variations of lane shape: [2] Classic lanes are 19.5 m (64 ft) long and 1.3 m (4.3 ft) wide for their entire length.
Skittles is "one of the quintessential English pub games" [5] and many pubs have a skittle alley, often in a side room. They may be of quite basic construction and the balls, as well as the skittles, may be made of wood. Some were based on cowsheds and only used during the summer months when the shed was not occupied by cattle. [6]
The candy giant confirmed that the Skittles factory in Waco, Texas, sells unused Skittles to a processor that melts down the candies into a syrup. Farmers really do feed their cows Skittles ...
Within the labyrinth are an outdoor skittle alley and a rustic swing. [126] Also in this area in the woods to the north of the lake but on the east side is the Sleeping Wood designed by Bridgeman. At the heart of it once stood the Sleeping Parlour, built in 1725 to a design by Vanbrugh. This was inspired by Charles Perrault's tale of Sleeping ...