I want to tell you all about a great game I discovered this summer. It\u2019s great fun for adults and kids, very simple to play and you can play it almost anywhere there\u2019s a patch of grass. My charges love the grisly origins of the game and it\u2019s inspired us to learn about the Vikings.<\/p>\n
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The idea is simple. You throw sticks of wood at your opponents\u2019 blocks of wood and try to knock them down so you can knock down the big block of wood \u2013 the king \u2013 in the middle. Originally the sticks of wood were leg bones and the blocks of wood were skulls, but don\u2019t let that put you off! Each team starts with a line of 5 \u2018skulls\u2019 and 6 \u2018bones\u2019 and you have to throw your bones at your opponents skulls and try to knock them over. If you knock over a skull then next turn your opponents throw the skulls into your half and then have to knock all those skulls down before they can hit any skulls left on your line. Occasionally you knock over a skull on the line before you\u2019ve knocked down the ones you\u2019re supposed to have first but that\u2019s okay because you have one more throw to get the remaining skull(s). If you don\u2019t knock down all the skulls in the middle then on your opponents\u2019 next go they can throw from any of the skulls left standing, which means they can be a lot closer to your line. When all the skulls on the line have been knocked down you can throw your bones at the king in the middle, which is bigger and heavier than the normal skulls, and try to knock it over. First to get all their opponents\u2019 skulls and the king wins, but if you knock over the king before you\u2019ve got all the other skulls you lose! There are a couple of other rules but that\u2019s the basic idea, and games last between 15 minutes and an hour, depending on how good you are at aiming!<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a great game for improving throwing skills and you can adapt the size of the pitch to suit smaller players because it\u2019s just marked out by pegs. Adults and older children can play on a full size pitch which is about 5 paces by 10 paces, but the exact size isn\u2019t important. We\u2019re playing with a 3 year old in tow so our pitch is about half the size. You only need 2 players but teams can be up to 6 on each side and we always attract a couple of children we\u2019ve never met before each time we play it at the park.<\/p>\n
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The only downside to the game is that the wooden pieces are quite heavy to carry about, but don\u2019t let that stop you trying this great game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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