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[4] [15] In 2017, three students in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, were almost charged with felonies after attempting to ambush a target in what they thought was the target's garage, but instead belonged to an elderly neighbor unfamiliar with the game, who locked them in and called the police. [7]
Engravings dating back to c. 1300 [1]: 33 show a game being played that is an early variant of either ground billiards or one-on-one field hockey (assuming there was any significant difference other than game speed and vigour), sometimes within a bounded area. A similar game has survived to modern times, in the form of box hockey (which uses a ...
This page lists sports and games which have traditionally been played in rural areas. Predominantly they come from the British Isles. Some take the form of annual events in a particular location associated with the tradition. Others have become more widespread, being played in local fairs or festivities in different areas. Some are pub games ...
Mumblety-peg (also known as mumbley-peg, mumbly-peg, [1] mumblepeg, mumble-the-peg, mumbledepeg, mumble peg or mumble-de-peg) is an old outdoor game played using pocketknives. [2] The term "mumblety-peg" came from the practice of putting a peg of about 2 to 3 in (5 to 8 cm) into the ground. The loser of the game had to take it out with his teeth.
Some rules sources say this is the way the game is played, [5] [6] some treat it as a variation, [4] [7] [8] [9] and some do not mention it at all. [10] A 19th-century games manual calls this the "truly rustic mode of playing the game". [4] Flying was introduced to compensate when the weaker side is one man away from losing the game.
A version of the game in Europe involves spotting yellow cars, [1] and it appears in the British radio sitcom Cabin Pressure under the name "yellow car", with no scoring. [14] In the United States, this game is known as "banana", [citation needed] and in Scandinavia a similar game called gul bil exists. [15]
Stoop ball is a pickup neighborhood game played near the stoop (outer concrete stairway) of a residential dwelling by a minimum of two players. The rules [5] are based loosely on baseball. The object of the game is to score the most runs in nine innings. One player is the "batter" and the other players are "fielders".
The origin of the game of pick-up sticks is disputed, [2] but it is believed to have developed from the yarrow stalks used for divination with the Chinese I Ching. [3] The game became popular in the 1800s in Germany, the United Kingdom (where it was played at least as early as 1945 at Windsor Castle), and the United States. [4]