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A crown bowls green at Edgworth, Lancashire, England. A lawn game is an outdoor game that can be played on a lawn. [1] Many types and variations of lawn games exist, which includes games that use balls and the throwing of objects as their primary means of gameplay.
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curved path when being rolled.
English rules recorded in Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester (1674), for an indoor version played on a billiards table, indicate that the general offensive goal of the game is to use a club-like cue, called the mace or tack, to drive one's own ball through a hoop, called the pass, port, argolis, or ring, thus earning a chance to shoot at ...
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These are the best outdoor games for all ages, skill levels and budgets, with classics like croquet and horseshoes, and new trends like Kan Jam and Tipsy Toss. 21 Best Lawn Games That You Need at ...
Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed 40 feet (12 m) apart.
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Kubb King on an unused pitch during final rounds of the 2013 USA Kubb National Championship. Kubb (pronounced in Swedish and Gutnish) is a lawn game where the objective is to knock over wooden blocks (kubbar) by throwing wooden batons (kastpinnar) at them.