A boy can dream. A boy can dream a dream of skittles reinventing the lives of Canadians from coast to coast, becoming a new bond amongst our fractured regions, gathering families in new stadia and around the TV for Tuesday Night Northamptonshire Skittles in Canada broadcast on One, the TV network previously unwatched prior to the canny licensing deal that got them broadcast and swag rights throughout the land.
Why? It is played with "cheeses," of course:
For each turn a player throws three cheeses at the skittles which start standing in the classic diamond pattern. If all the skittles are toppled after the first or second throws, they are reset so that the maximum theoretical score in one turn is 27 points. The cushioned side walls are critical - the cheese needs to be bounced off them in order to clear the skittles in certain situations. In some places, it is also legal to bounce the cheese of the rear hood as well. In most versions, the toppled skittles are left where they lie. However, some areas in Leicestershire and Rutland remove dead skittles before each new throw.Down with Rutland! Play the dead tailors, I say!!! And click the picture for the truth...it's already branded for league play. Every one of you would lose to me, by the way.
You are now permitted to buy me things like this from the alarmingly wonderful Masters Traditional Games.
Comments
Gordo - February 17, 2007 6:01 PM
Al, if you're going publicize the admin login for the blog, perhaps you should give us the username/password as well .. ;-)
Gordo - February 17, 2007 9:06 PM
My Dad has a table-top bagatelle board like the ones that Masters' carries. It's been around the family since the 20's, I think. I can easily recall many a summer's evening at my great-grandmother's cottage playing that game. Ahhh, I'm five again ... Thanks.
Alan - February 17, 2007 10:25 PM
Oops. Damned tabbed browsers.<p>We went to Minotaur and got a few things including that most valuable of commodities, the replacement crokinole discs. No skittles, though. Picked up indoor heavy rubber horseshoes. <p>They did have a Shut the Box set.
Gordo - February 17, 2007 10:45 PM
It's a fabulous store. Philip begs to go in whenever we're downtown.
gorthos - February 18, 2007 9:28 AM
Cheeses eh.. like flatter larger mini-babybels.. At what point do you change the cheese? Do you eat the cheese? Do you not think low density rubber would be less lactose streak causing to the table?
Minotaur is cool and my spousal unit loves the place. I have no time or playmates for boardgames so I avoid the place in sadness.
Alan - September 14, 2007 4:18 PM
Note to file: loggats.