Outdoor & pub games
In the garden, on the beach or at the bar. Simple rules, scores that climb fast, and often a house rule in every family.
24 games, 24 rules pages.
- Table football2-4 pl.Game to 10 goals, as played in cafés (in competition, sets of 5). Enter each goal scored.
- Beer pong2-4 pl.Throw a ball into the cups opposite. The side that empties the other's cups wins.
- Pool2-4 pl.Count the games won, or the points in carom and snooker.
- Lyonnaise bowls2-12 pl.Pétanque's big sister: a long pitch, a run-up allowed, and a shot that must strike the target ball without touching the ground first.
- Ten-pin bowling1-8 pl.10 frames. Enter the cumulative score for each frame.
- Carrom2-4 pl.Billiards played with a flick: send your pieces into the board's four pockets.
- Cornhole2-4 pl.Toss bags at a board with a hole. Hole: 3 points, bag on the board: 1 point. Game to 21, with cancellation scoring between sides.
- Darts Cricket2-4 pl.The other great darts game: close the numbers 15 to 20 and the bull, and score on those your opponent hasn't closed.
- Crokinole2-4 pl.Wooden discs flicked across a round board towards the centre hole, worth 20. As long as an opposing disc is in play, you must hit it: the game is as much about knocking out as about placing.
- Croquet2-6 pl.Get your ball through every hoop before the others, croqueting any that get in the way.
- Disc golf1-8 pl.18 holes, you count the throws. The lowest total wins, just like golf.
- Horseshoes2-4 pl.Throw the shoes at the stake. A ringer: 3 points. A shoe within a shoe's width of the stake: 1 point. Game to 21.
- Darts 5011-8 pl.Start from 501 and subtract each visit's score. You must land exactly on zero.
- Jenga2-8 pl.A tower of wooden blocks: on your turn, pull one out with one hand from below the highest complete level, and stack it on top. Whoever knocks the tower down loses.
- Toad in the hole2-8 pl.Toss discs into the holes of the barrel. The frog's mouth scores the most.
- Kubb2-12 pl.Knock down the other side's kubbs, then the king. No points: you count the rounds won.
- Mikado2-6 pl.Forty-one sticks dropped in a heap: pick up yours without making any other one move.
- Minigolf1-8 pl.Eighteen holes to finish in as few strokes as possible, never counting more than seven on a hole: if the ball still isn’t in after six strokes, you write down seven and move on. The lowest total wins.
- Mölkky2-12 pl.First to exactly 50. Going over 50 sends you back to 25: the scorer applies this rule automatically.
- Breton palet2-8 pl.Get your discs close to the jack. Only discs closer than the opponent's best score. Game to 12 points.
- Pétanque2-6 pl.Game to 13 points. Enter each end's points for the team that wins it.
- Table tennis2-4 pl.Sets to 11 points with a two-point lead. Enter the winner of each set.
- Shuffleboard2-4 pl.Slide your discs as far as you can along a powdered table without going over the edge — while knocking your opponent's off.
- Spikeball4 pl.Game to 21 points with a two-point lead, in teams of two.