Pub games are being mentioned in the World Cup thread but as that event is done and dusted, I thought I'd ask folks about any pub games particularly local to their area.
For instance, I lived for a long time in Northamptonshire and we had a form of table skittles which consisted of a table with a net stretched over the back of it. Nine wooden skittles about 9" high were stood in a diamond formation on the table and attempts to knock them all down were made using 3 x wooden 'cheeses' (a circular lump of wood about 1½" thick and 5" or so in diameter). If all 9 skittles were knocked down with one 'cheese' then they were stood up again and, as you had 3 'cheeses' to start with, a top score of 27 was possible.
This game was, I think, also local to Leicestershire and is certainly not to be confused with the skittle game people remember with a ball on a chain and 9 skittles about 3" high :no:
Whether this game still exists in the local pubs I don't know as I haven't been in the area for years and have never seen it elsewhere :hmmm:
The Trout Inn Lechlade still plays Aunt Sally I believe they have league nights there about once a week in their season
:beers:
Quote from: GeeBee on July 15, 2014, 10:52:15 PM
The Trout Inn Lechlade still plays Aunt Sally I believe they have league nights there about once a week in their season
:beers:
Aunt Sally was still going strong in and around Headington, Oxford when I was still living there a few years ago
The only game I've seen in Aussie pubs is the drinking game... you know - the one that goes like this: :pint: and sometimes ends like this: :sick:
The only pub game I've seen down here is the one where half a dozen Jacamo-clad designer-stubbled idiots laugh stupidly and unnecessarily loudly every 36 seconds for hours on end :no:
Paul
Lived in Wiltshire for most of my life till 11 years ago. Skittles was and is huge along with cribbage.
Down here in Cornwall most pubs have Euchre teams.
Quote from: port perran on July 16, 2014, 07:45:50 AM
Lived in Wiltshire for most of my life till 11 years ago. Skittles was and is huge along with cribbage.
Down here in Cornwall most pubs have Euchre teams.
Having frequently visited Wiltshire and Somerset, I assume you're referring to 'alley skittles' there, Martin?
As for Euchre - I'd like to hear more please?
As I remember from pub visits in South Devon, it's a variation of whist.
Quote from: Bealman on July 15, 2014, 11:56:39 PM
The only game I've seen in Aussie pubs is the drinking game... you know - the one that goes like this: :pint: and sometimes ends like this: :sick:
When I worked as a "Galley hand" on the "Iberia" in 1965 all the pubs I saw in Aus (days of the 6 o'clock swill) had no furniture and white tiled walls so that they could hose the blood of in the morning! :beers:
I don't live in London anymore, but the pub I used to go to in the 70s had a bar billiards table in the back room.
I think it's a great shame that it's getting harder to find a pub with at least a dart board, let alone a pool table nowadays. There seem to be so many pubs closing or being put up to rent yet I wonder if they had leagues for pub games whether it would attract more trade and avoid such closures. I'm not getting into the debate about smoking bans or greedy breweries but I, for one, will go out of my way to avoid anywhere that has TV sport showing.
Oh, the six o clock swill. Forgotten about that. :thumbsup:
A typical pub game when I was a young man in Hartlepool, was trying to get my mate John to buy a round.
:laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:
Or work out who hung the monkey
Worse still, who was buying the next round of Camerons :sick2:
I presume Camerons is a brand of beer and not the man who lives in No10.
Quote from: Agrippa on July 16, 2014, 02:00:57 PM
I presume Camerons is a brand of beer and not the man who lives in No10.
Quite correct. Camerons Brewery owned most of the pubs in the town. Some were just the front room of an end of terrace house. Strongarm was its most popular brew. It was a bit heavier and stronger than most other beers and definitely an acquired taste, ask Bealman. Nimmos at Castle Eden and Exhibition from S & N were better, in my humble opinion.
Quote from: newportnobby on July 16, 2014, 12:35:37 PM
I think it's a great shame that it's getting harder to find a pub with at least a dart board, let alone a pool table nowadays. There seem to be so many pubs closing or being put up to rent yet I wonder if they had leagues for pub games whether it would attract more trade and avoid such closures. I'm not getting into the debate about smoking bans or greedy breweries but I, for one, will go out of my way to avoid anywhere that has TV sport showing.
My local (http://www.britishliondevizes.co.uk/) has both a pool table and a dartboard, a jukebox and NO TV. Bring a proper freehouse it also has 4 real ales which constantly change, at least 1 rough cider (http://www.yourround.co.uk/ViewPubInventory.aspx?id=etk9hp294uQ=) (made with real apples rather than real chemicals) and a good sized beer garden. In fact the beer garden sounds quite tempting right now, see you later! :beers:
Quote from: newportnobby on July 16, 2014, 10:05:03 AM
Quote from: port perran on July 16, 2014, 07:45:50 AM
Lived in Wiltshire for most of my life till 11 years ago. Skittles was and is huge along with cribbage.
Down here in Cornwall most pubs have Euchre teams.
Having frequently visited Wiltshire and Somerset, I assume you're referring to 'alley skittles' there, Martin?
As for Euchre - I'd like to hear more please?
See this link foe euchre rules :
http://www.pagat.com/euchre/euchre.html (http://www.pagat.com/euchre/euchre.html)
And yes, played alley skittles at County Standard ! Skittles is VERY popular and competitive throughout Wiltshire/Somerset/Gloucester/Dorset and parts of Devon.
On a different note, when I lived in Westbury (for 2 years) which is , incidentally, a great railway town, we had a wonderful pub (if only tiny) called the Bell which was run by a blind alchoholic ex University Professor but was such a great community pub.
No till, just a bucket for payment and as a regular you were just trusted. Everyone paid , no one took advantage and it was a great atmosphere (and always busy).
Those days are sadly long gone !
Quote from: Malc on July 16, 2014, 02:47:05 PM
Quote from: Agrippa on July 16, 2014, 02:00:57 PM
I presume Camerons is a brand of beer and not the man who lives in No10.
Quite correct. Camerans Brewery owned most of the pubs in the town. Some were just the front room of an end of terrace house. Strongarm was its most popular brew. It was a bit heavier and stronger than most other beers and definitely an acquired taste, ask Bealman. Nimmos at Castle Eden and Exhibition from S & N were better, in my humble opinion.
In total agreement there, Malc. Another good drop was Federation sold by the clubs.
Getting back onto NPN's original topic, and this time being actually serious - darts is still quite popular here in most pubs and clubs. Most pubs also have pool tables, and many clubs have full size snooker tables. Inter-pub and club competitions are quite popular in both darts and snooker (well in my area, at least). :beers:
Wednesday is "Woodpecker" day for three of us, free house 20 minutes away, Bar billiards, Shove ha'penney & assorted card games, 4 real ales (3 changing, the others the landlords favourite "Summer Lightning) bus stop right outside (that's what I call planning!) :beers:
Quote from: MinZaPint on July 19, 2014, 11:27:03 AM
.................... the landlords favourite "Summer Lightning................ :beers:
One of my favourites too. We probably have that about once every 6 weeks in my local and it sells very well, especially to me. We also have a Hop Back pub here which never has it on as they say it doesn't sell, work that one out. Crop Circle is also a Hop Back favourite for me and Taiphoon isn't bad either :beers:
One pastime rather than game which we used to play. Usually to see who bought the round was "Spoof".
Spoof! about 30 years ago was in a pub with 3 workmates, someone said let's play "Spoof", muggins said what's that, we'll show you they piped! needless to say it cost me a lot of money :-[
Being an ignoramus about 'Spoof', how is it played and are there any rules? :dunce:
Sounds like it's made up on the spur of the moment :worried:
There are rules to spoof, basically you hold a number of coins in your hand and someone has to guess the total. Another game we used to play was Liar Dice.
You can try to work out the grand total of coins in spoof by analysing the calls made by other players. However....people may try to mislead hence the name of the game.
Knap was always a popular game (especially on Sunday evenings for some strange reason).
Imagine that darts didn't exist and had just been invented.
Then imagine trying to sell it to the "hospitality industry" today.
A bunch of drunks throwing sharply pointed weapons across a crowded bar at a target fixed to the wall at eye level.
Drunk spectators staggering in front of the target on the way to the toilet.
No protective gear, apart from the "tin hat".
Would it be allowed - I don't think so.
Yours nostalgically,
Joe
Only ever sustained one darts "hit", in the thigh so I lived to tell the tale
I used to be a keen dominoes player in my youth, and it was good to see the game still being played in the north. I actually played a few games on my recent visit - in Newbottle Working Man's club (the village where I was born), but the best was playing doubles in the bar of the Sun Inn where I was staying in Dent (Yorkshire Dales). Anyway, I must still have me eye in, 'cos the opposition kept buying us drinks!! I hadn't realised when we started that we were playing for pints!
You should come visit here then George, most of the older Spanish guys play dominoes, it is very popular here.
In singles they'd kill me! But with doubles, any language difficulties become superfluous. The spots and maths do the talking! :thumbsup:
George
Quote from: Bealman on July 22, 2014, 01:51:51 AM
I used to be a keen dominoes player in my youth, and it was good to see the game still being played in the north. I actually played a few games on my recent visit - in Newbottle Working Man's club (the village where I was born), but the best was playing doubles in the bar of the Sun Inn where I was staying in Dent (Yorkshire Dales). Anyway, I must still have me eye in, 'cos the opposition kept buying us drinks!! I hadn't realised when we started that we were playing for pints!
Reminds me of a great trip two years ago, me and some pals hiked from Ribblehead to Dent during
a heatwave. Arriving at upper Dent the pub near the river was shut. Can't recall the name, but
at the uppermost part of the village.
We asked a nearby farmer when it opened , but he said it was very irregular.Then he went into
the farm house and came out with some cans of Cola for us which was very welcome as we
were parched
.
After that we walked up to the station, what a hike!
A great day out!
Cool. Dent is a lovely place.
Just looked up the Dentdale website, nice pix of the area including the Sun Inn.
The pub which was closed when we arrived was the Sportsman's.
A fantastic area , overdue another visit.
No Pubs as such in Tenerife - just loads of Bars - some with regular entertainment and others aimed at the sports inclined clientel with Darts, Pool, Snooker and Dominoes available etc.
Every Wednesday & Saturday I play snooker in one such Bar (called "Legends"), which has just one well looked after snooker table, 2 Pool tables, and a Darts board, and there is a Darts league, Pool league, and regular snooker competitions held in there.
This Friday I have tickets for a special evening in Legends where Jimmy White is putting on an exhibition and taking on challengers, followed by a buffet, and then a very good comedian called George King. The beer in Legends is well looked after too, draft San Miguel being €1.50 a pint all day, or Dorada at €2 a pint.
Always thought that a full sized snooker table would make a good base for an N gauge railway, if the Bar owner ever decides to get a new table I shall ask him how much he wants for the existing one - although I have no room in which to put it! When I lived in Wales I had a model railway on my 7' by 4' Pool Table when I got tired of using it for Pool.
Getting back to games - because of the weather outdoor sports are very popular here, and as well as Tennis and Bowls, Petanque is very popular on the Island and we even have a couple of Petanque pitches on our complex as well as a Tennis Court and both outdoor and indoor Pool tables (and Darts).
Sounds like Butlins :D
Best regards,
Joe
I think you'd have a heckuva lot of trouble trying to get track pins into a snooker table. :D
Even worse seeing your favourite train suddenly disappear down a pocket! :laugh:
Paul
At least you would have a ready made pattern for a Wye triangular junction. :-X
No - it's nothing like Butlins Joe - we live in a lovely complex and have an excellent lifstyle with good weather all year round.
For those who question using a snooker table as a base for a model railway - well you would do as I did with my Pool table and first make a baseboard that fits nicely on top & inside of the table - as per what I did in Wales - see attached video clip - and this was an OO gauge layout running on a 7' by 4' base that complimented my then outside layout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=L09xLyK6c74 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=L09xLyK6c74)