Archive for July 9th, 2010
Camping Games to play next to your camping tents – Game #5 of 5
This is the fifth in a series of 5 BLOG posts that will introduce you to some fun games to play outdoors while camping.
Game # 5 – Croquet
Croquet is an outdoor lawn game where each player uses a mallet to knock his ball through the wickets (small wire hoops) to score
Sunnywood Croquet Set
points. Croquet courts can be set up in any manner the players desire, though the traditional croquet court is set as two double diamonds within a rectangular field with measurements of 50 feet (15.25 meters) by 100 feet (30.5 meters). When camping, it’s fun to position the wickets around your camping tent and the picnic table so you have to hit the ball around the camp site.
The object of the camping game of croquet is to be the first player to knock the ball through all the wickets and end by striking the final stake, a thin, striped pole usually placed just beyond the last wicket. Croquet became somewhat of a game of the upper class in England and Ireland in the 1800′s. Now it is a game played worldwide by many people. Croquet fans tune in to watch croquet tournaments on the TV and follow the sport in the sports pages of many newspapers worldwide.
Offshoots from croquet have sprung up in recent years. Toequet is a game using the same rules as croquet, but the player kicks a soccer-styled ball through much larger wickets on the path towards the final stake. Malletball also bears the same croquet rules, though it is played with oversized mallets, larger wickets, and bigger balls.