Skittles (sport)#Table skittles

As Table Skittles is called games where cones are knocked over in a small, usually posted on a table Arena with a ball or a gyro. Table Skittles are almost always made ​​of wood.

  • 3.1 counting
  • 3.2 game variations
  • 3.3 Tournaments
  • 3.4 Cleaning the web

Table Skittles

Table Skittles often represent a transfer of the cone Sports with scaled elements (train, cone, sphere ) similar to the mini golf and believed to part as kids variation of this precision sport.

Simple mechanical table skittles have attached to a kind of gallows rope with a small bowling ball. By bumping the ball swings back and forth circular or. It includes the overturned cone per pass. Some games allow the fallen cones by hand be brought back to its original position, others have a pull mechanism, which sets out the strings attached to taper again. In the UK, this game is under the name Devil Amongst the Tailors ( devil among tailors ) from the 18th century as an inn game.

A variant of a table throwing bowling game is specifically played in English pubs in the regions Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Bedfordshire Hood Skittles dar. Originally tossed with small slices of cheese on the cone 9. Meanwhile you use leather washers and raises a specially equipped with cushions and safety net table, which thus resembles a chair.

Tyrol Merano and table skittles

This sport is known especially in Bavaria ( Mering ), Tirol ( Tyrol table skittles ) Tyrol ( Meran table skittles ) and Upper Austria.

Construction

The table bowling alley consists of a sloping, framed playing surface, the table cone table. This is usually placed on a waist-high table. The game is played with a wooden top, which attempts, as many of the nine established cone, also of wood, to take them down.

The measurements are: total length 82 cm, width 41 cm. The frame is 3 inches wide. The actual playing surface is 67 x 35 cm. Seen by the player towards the cones, the web is from about 1 ° inclined downwardly from left to right, the track being inclined approximately 4 °. That is, the gyro moves normal, in semicircular turns towards the higher right. The individual cones are about 6 inches away from the next. The marking of the cone forms a square, 45 ° displaced from the perspective of the player, with an edge length of 12 cm. These values ​​differ regionally.

The track is often made of larch wood or other hardwood. In order to achieve a visually appealing, surface, you can stick around a wallpaper. Furthermore, a glass plate is mounted. There is a field that identifies the position of the gyroscope when turning away. Fires outside of this field, so the thrust is invalid. At the other end of the cone, the position of which are indicated by 9 points for positioning. At the very end is a recess in which the fallen cone land (but they are often also lie on the playing surface ).

Centrifugal and Cone

The gyro is made of wood and usually 6 inches high and the bottom of the bulge 4 cm wide. The gyro is weighted with lead in order to have the focus on bottom. To get a better gyroscope properties, it is also reinforced horizontally with 4 nails on each side. The gyro must not be wider than the distance between the cone ( 6 cm ).

A cone is also about 6 inches high and at its widest point, about 2.3 cm wide.

Game

The player introduces herself to the table and holds the gyro usually between thumb and forefinger and spinning the spinner. It is also referred to as thrust. This then moves back in half sheets, or just to the cones. Even if the gyro gets along, this thrust is to be evaluated.

Game variations

  • Merano table skittles
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  • Damischer Hansel

Oberösterreichisches table skittles

Regional in southern Upper Austria is called the table skittles Drauln. The word derives from the dialect word for circles, turning off ( Draul ). Formerly called the game Pumwoilfaln. The Drauln is an entertainment sport. This often includes skill and luck. Depending on how you turn the gyro, a distinction is made between the arc and the straight thrust (classical) thrust.

Counting

The counting is as real bowling. The front cone doubles the number of points. If the three met in a series, count nine. Traps all cones, so this is a sow with 36 points. If only the innermost stand, so that means a Kranzl and counts 24 points.

Game variations

  • The Schanzeln: Three drawer per player, points are added.
  • The clearing: Three drawers, which is not repositioned between relapses. If the first of a tie, is brought forward. It comes with a new use in the next round, all players (not just the first points peers ) may play again. This continues until a winner is determined.

Tournaments

There are regularly organized tournaments that run roughly as follows: There is a level at which 5 relapses can be played (with or without money ). The points are added. Before every new beginning three sample episodes are allowed. Like the players in the sample thrust, he can do this as a first match values ​​and to dispense with the other. There are the three best items added. The winner is reached with the three best stands score. A special feature is still the descent Writing ( owischreiben ). If you play in a booth and it is a particularly good thrust succeeded can be seen on the current state without, and one begins with this new thrust stand

Cleaning of the web

Since some players with ashes (or chalk) turn (to achieve a better grip on wet fingers around ), the web is dirty again. Normally, the web is cleaned with brandy ( fruit brandy ). You can also use window cleaners, with the disadvantage that the train sometimes too smooth ( slippery ) is. With a paper towel, the web is usually then cleaned.

Table bowling in Werdenfels

A regional variant in the area around Garmisch -Partenkirchen is the so-called shock digging here. With a queue, the player comes to a ball to meet as many of the nine cone of a miniature bowling alley.

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