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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