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The Online Guide to Traditional Games Mallet and ball games are thought to have been first played in England and Europe during the middle ages. Games would normally involve only one ball which would be struck through very wide hoops. A Croquet-like game is believed to have been played by thirteenth century French peasants who used crudely fashioned mallets to whack wooden balls balls through hoops made of willow branches. A variety of equipment has been found indicating that, as was typical, there were no standards and a variety of rules and types of game were in existence for several centuries. One type of game which this author calls Ground Billiards' featured a hoop and a stick, a point being scored for each time your ball was first through the hoop and onto hit the stick. At some point in the 15th century someone chose to invent an indoor variation of this played on a table which led to
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| Page title: | Croquet - Online Guide |
| Keywords: | croquet history |
| Description: | Croquet - History and Guide to the origins of Croquet, closh and lawn billiards. Modern croquet varations and where to buy |
| IP-address: | 109.123.75.100 |