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Kubb King on an unused pitch during final rounds of the 2013 USA Kubb National Championship. Kubb (pronounced in Swedish and Gutnish) is a lawn game where the objective is to knock over wooden blocks (kubbar) by throwing wooden batons (kastpinnar) at them.
In computer and video games, female characters are often cast in the role of the damsel in distress, with their rescue being the objective of the game. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] An early example of the damsel archetype in video games is Pauline , a Nintendo character in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong .
A shillelagh (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ l eɪ l i,-l ə / shil-AY-lee, -lə; Irish: sail éille or saill éalaigh [1] [ˌsˠal̠ʲ ˈeːlʲə], "thonged willow") is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top. It is associated with Ireland and Irish folklore.
The view that it was originally a children's game is reinforced by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary in which he defined the noun "crosse " as "the crooked staff wherewith boys play at cricket", and the verb form "crosser " as "to play at cricket".
A game of "Aunt Sally". Drawing from the 1911 edition of Whiteley's General Catalogue.. Aunt Sally is a traditional English game usually played in pub gardens and fairgrounds, in which players throw sticks or battens at a ball, known as a 'dolly', balanced on top of a stick; traditionally, a model of an old woman's head was sometimes used. [1]
A Razzle game scoring chart. Razzle consists of a large playing board with over a hundred holes numbered 1 through 6. A player makes a bet by spilling eight marbles onto the board from a cup, and the numbers of the holes they land in are added together and referenced on a chart that looks something like a calendar, telling the player how many points they have won for that roll.
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each ().Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court.
Cube World is a series of electronic toys developed by Radica Games and Mattel between 2005 and 2009. Each Cube World cube contains an animated stick figure who is able to interact with the figures in other cubes when connected together.