View CartVintage Table Top Game of Bar Skittles aka (Table Skittles, Pole Skittles or Devil Amongst the tailors)
Age:
Mid 20th Century
Material:
Wood
Dimensions:
Base: 35cm x 50.5cm
Shipping:
Standard Parcel
Price:
SOLD
Vintage table top skittles game with self raising pins.
Rules:
- A coin should be tossed to see who takes the first turn.
- The skittles are only reset at the beginning of a turn or when all nine have been knocked over.
- Three throws per turn are allowed so that the maximum score in one go is twenty-seven.
- The ball must be start its revolution around the left outside of the board so that it hits the skittles upon its return towards the player. The ball is permitted to go around the pole only once for each throw - the player should catch it as it returns so as to prevent it going round a second time.
- Usually, the objective is to be the first player to reach a score of one hundred and one although, if a cribbage board is being used to score, the game would be played to Sixty one and if you bust return to 92 (or 52).
- A coin should be tossed to see who takes the first turn.
- The skittles are only reset at the beginning of a turn or when all nine have been knocked over.
- Three throws per turn are allowed so that the maximum score in one go is twenty-seven.
- The ball must be start its revolution around the left outside of the board so that it hits the skittles upon its return towards the player. The ball is permitted to go around the pole only once for each throw - the player should catch it as it returns so as to prevent it going round a second time.
- Usually, the objective is to be the first player to reach a score of one hundred and one although, if a cribbage board is being used to score, the game would be played to Sixty one and if you bust return to 92 (or 52).
Very good condition