Pub games Pub games Aunt Sally is a traditional throwing game. Nowadays the term is more often used metaphorically to mean something that is a target for criticism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aunt Sally"
Backgammon is a board game for two players. Each player has fifteen pieces (checkers or men) which move between twenty-four triangles (points) according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to be first to bear off, that is, to move all fifteen checkers off the board. ...more on Wikipedia about "Backgammon"
Bagatelle (from French by way of the Italian bagattella, a trifle) is an indoor table game related to billiards, the object of which is to get a number of balls past pins (which act as obstacles) into holes. It is the precursor of the pinball machine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bagatelle"
Bat and trap is an ancient English ball game related to cricket and played at country pubs in the county of Kent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bat and trap"
Billiards is a family of games played on a table, with a stick, known as a cue stick, which is used to strike balls, moving them around the table. ...more on Wikipedia about "Billiards"
Bowls (also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling) is a precision sport where the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the "jack" or "kitty") than one's opponent is able to do. It is related to bocce and pétanque. This game is most popular in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and in other UK territories. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bowls"
Chess is a board game and mental-skill game for two players. It is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks) and eight columns (called files), giving 64 squares of alternating colour, light and dark, with each player having a light square at the near right corner when facing the board. Each player begins the game with 16 pieces which can move in defined directions (and in some instances, limited range) and can remove other pieces from the board: each player's pieces comprise eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and one king. One player controls the white pieces; the other player controls the black pieces (the player that controls white is always the first player to move). ...more on Wikipedia about "Chess"
Cribbage or Crib is a card game that involves forming combinations of cards over a series of hands to accumulate points. Points are mainly scored by runs, regardless of suit; by pairs, triples and quadruples; by flushes; and by cards that add up to 15. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cribbage"
Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground 22 yards long, called the pitch. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cricket"
Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term 'darts' usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific board design and set of rules. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darts"
Devil among the tailors is a pub game which is a form of table skittles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Devil among the tailors"
Dominoes (or "dominos") generally refers to the individual or collective gaming pieces making up a domino set (sometimes called a deck or pack) or to the games played with these pieces. (In the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes the word domino often refers to any rectangle formed from joining two squares edge to edge.) Standard domino sets consist of 28 pieces called bones, cards, tiles, stones, spinners or dominoes. Each bone is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of black spots (also called pips) or is blank. The spots are generally arranged as they are on six-sided dice, but because there are also blank ends having no spots there are normally seven possible faces. Standard domino sets have ends ranging from zero spots to six spots (double six set), but specialized sets might range from zero to nine (double nine set), zero to twelve (double twelve set), zero to fifteen (double fifteen set), or zero to eighteen (double eighteen set). The back side of a domino is generally plain. Dominoes have been made of bone, ivory, plastic, metal and wood, and occasionally are made of cardstock like that for playing cards. Dominoes are rather generic gaming devices--just as are playing cards. Many different games can be played with a set of dominoes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dominoes"
Checkers or draughts (pronounced "drafts"), is a group of mental sport board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Draughts"
Dwarf tossing, which originated in either the United States or Australia, is an attraction (some consider it a sport) in bars, where dwarfs wearing special padded clothing are thrown onto mattresses by competitors. The goal of the game is to throw the dwarf the farthest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dwarf tossing"
Dwyle flunking is a boisterous outdoor pub game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dwyle flunking"
Nine Men's Morris is a two-player strategy board game with a long history in Europe. The pattern of the board dates back to 1400 BC in Kurna, Egypt. Each player has nine pieces which move between the twenty-four intersections of three interlocking squares. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nine Men's Morris"
Pitch penny (also called Penny seat, Penny slot, Tossing the penny and Penny in the hole) is a pub game. It involves throwing coins across the room and into a hole carved in the seat of a wooden bench. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pitch penny"
Pub games are traditional games which are or were played in pubs, bars, inns, and taverns, particularly in England. Most are indoor games, though some are played outdoors (e.g. in the pub garden). ...more on Wikipedia about "Pub games"
As a subset of pub games, pub sports include traditional pastimes such as darts, billiards, and skittles. Unlike parlour games, or gambling games of chance like cards and dice, all of which are also often played in bars, pubs, and taverns, Pub Sports require exertion, coordination, and dexterity in particular physical skills. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pub sports"
Quoits is a traditional lawn game involving the throwing of a metal or rubber ring over a set distance to land over a pin in the ground. It is closely related to horseshoes and the fairground game hoopla. In the United States, Quoits is most popular in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quoits"
Ringing the bull is a pub game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ringing the bull" shortopedia - forget the rest.
Shove ha'penny (or shove halfpenny) is a pub game for two players. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shove ha'penny"
Shut the Box, Tric-Trac, Canoga (or Batten down the Hatches) is a game of dice for one or more players, mostly played in a group of two to four (possibly for stakes, gambling). Traditionally a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9 where each can be discreetly covered with a hinged or sliding mechanism. Alternatively it could be played with a sheet of paper. Variations exist where the box has up to 10 or 12 tiles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shut the Box"
Skittles is an old European target sport, from which Ten-pin bowling and Candlepin bowling in the United States, and Five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom the game remains a very popular pub sport in England and Wales, though it tends to be found in particular regions, not nation-wide. It is perhaps most common in the south west counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire and South Wales. It is very popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Skittles (sport)"
Toad in the hole is a pub game, involving throwing brass discs at a hole in a box. A variation of this game has been played in pubs in East Sussex, UK, the 'hole' being in the centre of a large wooden seat set against the wall, the back of the seat being a surface to rebound your shot off. Toad in the hole is a more refined version of the coin-throwing game Pitch penny. ...more on Wikipedia about "Toad in the hole (game)" The article you are reading is from http://www.shortopedia.com Pub_games
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