Pub Games - Traditional Pub Games

Traditional Pub Games

Traditional pub games include:

  • Darts (various games)
  • Bowls (various games)
  • Dice games, such as shut the box
  • Card games, such as Cribbage
  • Cue & ball games: Billiards, Bar billiards, Snooker, Bagatelle
  • Bat & ball games: Cricket, Knur and spell, Bat and trap, Tip-cat
  • Skittles - various games, such as Devil among the tailors
  • Board games: Nine Men's Morris, backgammon, draughts, chess
  • Coin pushing/throwing games: Shove ha'penny, Pitch penny, Toad in the hole, Sporting coin.
  • Other throwing games: Ringing the bull, Aunt Sally, quoits (indoor or outdoor)
  • Other games: dominoes

All of the above games were played in at least some English pubs in the 1970s, but many were in decline and some may since have died out.

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