Custom Engraved Molkky Set Purchase
Engraving is the cheapest way to turn a wooden pin game into a gift, and the easiest way to ruin one. The difference is entirely in what gets engraved and where, because a pin has two jobs: it has to be identifiable by its number, and it has to survive being hit several hundred times. […]
Is Skittles the Same as Bowling?
No. Skittles and ten-pin bowling share an ancestor but they are different games with different equipment, and the difference matters if you are sourcing one of them. The short version: skittles is played with a small ball or a thrown object at nine wooden pins on a flat surface, outdoors or in a pub alley. […]
Rules of Molkky and Placement of the Pins
Molkky is a Finnish skittle game: twelve numbered pins, one throwing skittle, and a rule that the fallen pins stay where they land. The scoring is the part people get wrong, and the pin placement is the part that makes the game worth playing twice. Here is the rule set, and then the part that […]
Is There a Difference Between Skittles and Bowling?
They are different games, and the difference is not the number of pins. It is the lane. Bowling is played down a prepared lane at a fixed distance with a standardised pin set and a formal scoring system. Skittles is played at a short distance, usually outdoors, with no lane, and with regional rule sets […]
Rules of Molkky and Placement of the Pins?
Molkky is easy to explain and surprisingly easy to set up badly. The two things that decide whether a game works are where you put the pins and what you put them on, and neither of those is in the rulebook in any detail. This is the practical side: how much space you need, which […]
How to Play Number Kubb with Scoring System?
There is a mix-up to clear up first, because it is widespread and it makes the scoring system impossible to understand. Number Kubb is not Kubb with numbers on the blocks. It has no king, no batons and no inkast. It is the twelve-pin Finnish throwing game, sold under a generic name because the familiar […]