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Quoits
Quoits ( or ) is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (sometimes called a hob, mott or pin). The game of quoits encompasses several distinct variations. History Quoits is supposedly the game the ancient Greek deity Apollo was playing with his lover Hyacinth (mythology), Hyacinth which ultimately resulted in his death. In Apollonius of Rhodes' ''Argonautica,'' Thetis sees Jason and the other heroes "delighting in mass throwing (σόλῳ ῥιπῇσί) and arrows." The Greek word "σόλος" usually refers to a mass of iron used for throwing. It is often translated as "quoit." From coyte: "flat stone thrown in a game". Probably from Old French coite: "flat stone". Possible derivation of coilte: "cushion". It is not until the 19th century that the game is documented in any detailed way. The official rules first appeared in the April 1881 edition of ''The Field (magazine), The Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Muckers (game)
Muckers, also known as ring toss (not to be confused with the ring toss carnival game) or circle horseshoes, is an outdoor game, commonly played at summer camps, in which players take turns throwing circular rings at a stick, standing about one foot high. It is a spin-off of Quoits and the popular Horseshoes (game), horseshoes. Rules Equipment Muckers games are played with rings (known in Muckers as "muckers") and poles. Muckers Muckers are typically 5 inches in diameter and are made of rubbery material. Muckers games are played with two sets of two muckers. Sets are differentiated by color. Poles Muckers games are played with two poles. Sticks are usually wooden and they both stand about one foot high from the ground. Layouts Sticks are erected at ten to twenty feet from each other. Courts Courts can be on grass or sand. Gameplay Muckers games can be played with either two teams of two people or just two people. Games are made up of rounds. A round is completed when both th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Horseshoes (game)
Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn game, lawn or Sandpit, sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed apart. Modern games use a more stylized U-shaped bar, about twice the size of an actual horseshoe. Game play NHPA Official Rules of the Game of Horseshoes The National Horseshoe Pitchers Association (NHPA), the sport of horseshoes' governing body, maintains a set of rules and their specifications of the game on their website. They outline the style of play, the two most common scoring methods (cancellation and count-all), acceptable equipment, and exact court specifications as well as additional methods of organizing tournament and league competitions. Style of play The game begins with a horseshoe flip to decide who goes first. The winner of the flip thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pub Games
A pub game is one which is traditionally played inside or outside a pub. Most pub games date back centuries and are rooted in village culture. Many derive from older outdoor sports. Pub games can be loosely grouped into throwing games, dice games, card games, board games, Slot machine, slot games, Cue sports, cue and ball games, Bat-and-ball games, bat and ball games, Coin flipping , coin pushing/throwing games, and drinking games. History In his book, ''Beer and Skittles'', Richard Boston claims that the first regulation concerning national control of pubs was about pub games; Henry VII of England, Henry VII's statute of 1495 restricted the playing of "indoor games which were distracting Tudor pubmen from archery". Many pub games owe their origins to older outdoor sports, adapted and transformed over time for indoor play, either for convenience or to allow publicans to maintain their teams during the off-season. Gaming activities associated with pubs included card games such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Father Is A Bachelor
''Father Is a Bachelor'' is a 1950 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Abby Berlin and Norman Foster. It stars William Holden and Coleen Gray. Plot Carefree vagabond Johnny Rutledge lives in a small town after his medicine show employer and friend Professor Mordecai Ford is arrested. He befriends a young girl named May Chalotte and her older brothers January ("Jan"), February ("Feb") and twins March and April. Jan received word six months before that their parents had died in a riverboat accident, but has not told anybody but Feb, and now Johnny, fearing they would be sent to an orphanage. Johnny makes it clear that he is adamantly opposed to taking on any responsibilities, but somehow finds himself becoming their "uncle" anyway. He works on a farm during the week and sings and waits tables on Sunday in a restaurant owned by Jericho Schlosser to provide for the children. When Prudence Millett, daughter of the local judge, comes to inquire why the boys are not in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curved path when being rolled. The game is played either in teams or one against one. The game was first played in the 13th century. The game is played on grass, although other surfaces are sometimes used. Matches are held either until one player gets to a score, or when a number of ''ends'' are played. The game is mostly played on a bowling green, which can vary by the type of bowls being played. Whilst the game is often played outdoors, there are indoor bowling venues, and can also be played on rollable carpets. For outdoor games, this is usually on grass; however, it can also be played on cotula in New Zealand. History Bowls is a variant of the ''boules'' games (Italian: ''bocce''), which, in their general form, are of ancient or prehistor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Lawn Games
A lawn () is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawn mower (or sometimes grazing animals) and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes—it is also commonly referred to as part of a garden. Lawns are usually composed only of grass species, subject to weed and pest control, maintained in a green color (e.g., by watering), and are regularly mowed to ensure an acceptable length. Lawns are used around houses, apartments, commercial buildings and offices. Many city parks also have large lawn areas. In recreational contexts, the specialised names turf, parade, pitch, field or green may be used, depending on the sport and the continent. The term "lawn", referring to a managed grass space, dates to at least the 16th century. With suburban expansion, the lawn has become culturally ingrained in some areas of the world as part of the desired household aesthetic.Robbins, PaulLawn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ring Toss
Ring toss is a game where rings are tossed around a peg. It is common at amusement parks. A variant, sometimes referred to as "ring-a-bottle", replaces pegs with bottles, where the thrower may keep the bottle (and its contents) if successful. Ring toss is also a game for toddlers and children that can assist in the development of motor skills and hand-eye coordination development. See also * Horseshoes * Quoits Quoits ( or ) is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (sometimes called a hob, mott or pin). The game of quoits encompasses several distinct vari ... * Muckers References Further reading ''Handbook of Evidence-Based Treatment Manuals for Children and Adolescents''''Great Games for Young Children''''Game Play: Therapeutic Use of Childhood Games''''Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games''''Small Business and Entrepreneurship'' Carnival games Throwing games { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Aerobie
An Aerobie is a flying ring used in a manner similar to a chakram or flying disc (Frisbee), for recreational catches between two or more individuals. Its ring shape of only about thickness"The Science of Aerobie Sport Toys", #1 , accessed June 26, 2008 makes the Aerobie lighter and more stable in flight than a disc. It can be bent to tune it for straighter flight. Since it has very low drag and good stability, it can be thrown much further than a flying disc. The Aerobie was used to set two former world records for thrown objects. Designed in 1984 by |
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Washer Pitching
Washer pitching is a game, similar to horseshoes, that involves teams of players taking turns to throw washers towards a box or hole. The game has many variations, and may be called washer pitching, washer toss, washers, ''huachas'' or washoes (which is based on the similarity to horseshoes). The object of the game is to earn points by tossing metal washers, usually around in diameter, and thick, toward a hole, usually denoted by a can or PVC pipe, often in a box. Washer pits and boxes vary in size and shape, but a standard for one-hole washers is , with a cylindrically-shaped cup ( in diameter and in height) located in its upper surface. Boxes are placed approximately away from each other, a distance often determined by a string attached to the front of each box. However, if a string is not attached to the box, one may take 10 paces from box-to-box, this will usually denote 20 feet. The throwing player stands on, next to, or behind one box and tosses washers toward the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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One Piece
''One Piece'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, as he explores the Grand Line in search of the mythical treasure known as the "One Piece" to become the next King of the Pirates. It has been serialized in Shueisha's Shōnen manga, manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 1997, with its chapters compiled in 111 volumes . The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Viz Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment. Becoming a media franchise, it has been adapted into a festival film by Production I.G, and an One Piece (1999 TV series), anime series by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in 1999. Additionally, Toei has developed 14 animated feature films and one original video animation. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising and media, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Baron Omatsuri And The Secret Island
Since the premiere of the anime adaptation of the manga series ''One Piece'' by Eiichiro Oda in 1999, Toei Animation has produced 15 feature films based on the franchise traditionally released during the Japanese school spring break since 2000. Four of the films were originally shown as double features alongside other Toei film productions and thus have a running time below feature length (between 30 and 56 minutes). The first three films were shown at the and the eleventh was released as part of ''Jump Heroes Film''. The films generally use original storylines, but some adapt story arcs from the manga directly. With the release of films ten, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen, tie-in story arcs of the TV series were aired concurrently. Additionally, three of these films have had special featurette shorts, showcasing the characters engaged in various activities unrelated to the series. There are also 13 television specials that were broadcast on Fuji TV and two short films, which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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William Holden
William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film '' Stalag 17'' (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for '' The Blue Knight'' (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including ''Sunset Boulevard'' (1950), '' Sabrina'' (1954), ''Picnic'' (1955), '' The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957), '' The Wild Bunch'' (1969) and '' Network'' (1976). He was named one of the " Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema. Early life and education Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball), a schoolteacher, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |