Medieval Games

Medieval Games

In medieval times people needed a way to entertain themselves. Here is a list:

• Archery- Requires a bow and an arrow to shoot at targets.
• Bowls: Another way of lawn bowling. Competitors need to throw a grape sized ball at a ball smaller than a tennis ball without hitting the target ball. The score will be judged on how close the competitors get to the ball.
• Colf- The ancient way of golf. Hitting a target in the least amounts of strokes is the way of winning. Wooden clubs and wooden balls are needed to play.
• Hammer throwing: A bou;der attached to the end of a wooden handle is needed to play. Throwing for distance is the goal. Competitors are needed to stay in a circle when throwing.
• Hurling or Shinty- similar to hockey. In order to play you must need a stick and a ball . You will need to have agoal to scroe goals. The winner will be decided on the team that scored the most goals.
• Gameball- football. In ancient times, people from different towns would come togetehr to run around with a pig's bladder. The teams will have an unlimited amount of players. The goal is to run the pig's bladder to the other side of town.
• Horseshoes- Throwing horse shoes at targets. You will need a couple of horseshoes to play. It consists of 2 or 4 players. For two players both people stay on one side and throw it to the other side. If there are 4 people playing then two people stay on each side. The games usually go up to 50 points.
• Quarterstaff contests: Uses 8 foot long poles to fight their opponents. It is used for stick fighting. It is like dueling.
• Skittles- An ancient way of ten pin bowling. Players take turn to throw wooden balls down a lane to knock over the skittles at the end. 
• Stoolball- An ancient way of cricket. The pitcher throws a ball to hit the home stool and the batter needs to not let that happen and at the same time the batter needs to run around the base stool for points. Once the batter hits the ball then he needs to run around the base stool.
• Wrestling- no equipment and no rules.

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