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Table football during Wikimedia 's hackathon. Table football, also known as foosball[a] or table soccer, is a tabletop game loosely based on association football. [1] Its object is to move the ball into the opponent's goal by manipulating rods which have figures attached resembling football players of two opposing teams.
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
Razzle (game) A diagram of a Razzle table, with eight marbles rolled to make a total of 27 points. Razzle (or Razzle-Dazzle) is a scam sometimes presented as a gambling game on carnival midways and historically, in the casinos of Havana, Cuba. [1] The player throws a number of marbles onto a grid of holes, and the numbers of those holes award ...
Pick-up game. Four players in a game of pick-up basketball. In sports and video games, a pick-up game (also known as a scratch game or PUG) is a game that has been spontaneously started by a group of players. Players are generally invited to show up beforehand, but unlike exhibition games, there is no sense of obligation or commitment to play.
Pick-up sticks. Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, jack straws, spillikins, spellicans, or fiddlesticks is a game of physical and mental skill in which a bundle of sticks, between 8 and 20 centimeters long, is dropped as a loose bunch onto a table top into a random pile. Each player, in turn, tries to remove a stick from the pile without ...
Stickball is a street game similar to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game played in large cities in the Northeastern United States, especially New York City and Philadelphia. [1][2][3] The equipment consists of a broom handle and a rubber ball, typically a spaldeen, [4] pensy pinky, high bouncer or tennis ball. [1][2] The rules come from ...
Table hockey. A table hockey game, also called rod hockey game, stick hockey, bubble hockey, and board hockey, is a game for two players, derived from ice hockey. The game consists of a representation of a hockey rink; the players score goals by hitting a small puck into the opposing "net" with cutout figures that represent hockey players.
The nearly identical weight of the ball, when compared to that of just one candlepin 2 lb 8 oz (1.1 kg), [1] causes balls to deflect when impacting either standing or downed pins. A game of candlepin bowling, often called a string in New England, is divided into ten rounds, each which is most commonly referred to as a box, rather than a "frame ...