Colf — the ancestor of Golf a sport for the nobles Gameball — a simple football game. Hurling or Shinty — a similar game to hockey. Horseshoes — throwing horseshoes at a target. Jousting at Tournaments. Ninepin bowling was also a popular medieval game. Songs and stories were very popular during The Middle Ages. People would entertain themselves with song, dance, music and stories. Wandering entertainers, called minstrels or troubadours, would travel from village to village providing such entertainment — particularly music — for the local people.
In the Middle Ages, the main pastime of the upper class was still hunting. Lords hunted deer with packs of dogs and killed them with arrows. They also hunted wild boars with spears. Both men and women went hawking. There were many bowling alleys. Lawn bowls was also played. Tennis Real Tennis, an indoor sport Quoits. Shovelboard — A long disk shoving game that was played by the aristocracy.
They played with wooden swords, toy soldiers, riding sticks and other warlike toys. Peasant boys sometimes made their own toys, such as play weapons out of sticks and floating boats from hollowed out bread loaves. In the s, there were no television sets, stereos, or video games, but there were always enough people around for playing games. Families were large; parents and several children, as well as an aunt, uncle, or a grandparent or two, lived under one roof.
Children also played games at school, in the village, and at work parties. Playing in the parlor. People who owned large homes often had a parlor. A parlor was a special room that was used for entertaining guests. When families invited neighbors to visit, they played games in their "best room. Parlor games often involved several people. Charades and Blind Man's Buff were popular parlor games. Guessing games, word games, and board games were also played in the parlor.
Table games. Some table games required a steady hand or quick wit to win. In other games, victory depended on the luck of the draw. Dominoes - Playing dominoes was a favorite pastime the late s. The game is still played today.
Dominoes are flat, rectangular blocks called tiles or bones. Each tile has two groups of dots on one side.
The dots range in number from zero to six. Tiles with the same number both ends are called doublets. One dominoes game is called Draw. The tiles are put in the middle of the table, face down. Each player draws three tiles and looks at them. The rest of the dominoes are left face down in the "bone yard. The second player puts a domino with a matching number of dots against the doublet.
Doublets are put down sideways, as shown on the left. The next player must lay a match at the free end of a tile. If he or she cannot, the player must turn over new dominoes until a match is found. The first player to lay down all of his or her dominoes wins. Tiddlywinks - Almost everyone has heard of tiddlywinks, but few people know how this game is actually played.
Players use a disk called a shooter to flip smaller disks called winks into a cup that sits in the middle of the playing area. The object of the game is to be the first player to sink all of his or her disks into the cup.
In the past, players took this game very seriously and practiced flipping winks in their spare time. Pickup sticks - Pickup sticks, or jackstraws, was a very popular game among North American settlers.
The game originated with American Indians. Players would roll a die, and either the lowest scoring player or the first player to roll a designated number would have to take a drink or else pay some kind of humiliating forfeit. One player rolls himself up into as tight a ball as possible. The other players then have to pick him up and carry him, as if he were a jar of honey being taken home from market. The other players then take it in turns to strike his hands, one at a time, and the kneeler has to guess which of the other players has hit him.
Here we go the jingo-ring! About the merry-ma-tanzie. An old English pub game in which players would take it in turns tossing coins or stones onto a four-by-four grid of squares, randomly numbered from , in an effort to score as many points as possible. The last player to be caught becomes the next King. Players would then take it in turns to throw smaller sticks towards it, and whoever managed to land theirs the closest won.
Loggits was one of a number of games banned by Henry VIII in out of concern that it would distract his soldiers from military practice; the same statute banned quoits, all card and dice games, and even tennis. The only thing we know about milking cromock is that it was a gambling game popular in pubs and taverns in Tudor England. And we only know that because it was one of a number of games listed by name in a directive that made playing it illegal.
Up with my heels and down with my head, and this is the way to mould cockle bread. The earliest description of mumblety-peg dates back to , while more recent accounts suggest it was still being played as recently as the s. The game involves players throwing knives into the ground, blade first, either aiming at a target or aiming just to propel the knife into the earth as deeply as possible. In the earliest versions of the game, the loser would be made to pull a wooden peg out of the ground with his teeth, hence the name.
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