I met Mischke and a bunch of other players on the Rolle Bolle lanes between city hall and the post office in Ghent. As it turns out, Ghent is like the Lambeau Field of rolle bolle. Way back when, some Belgian immigrants brought the game to this southwestern Minnesota town and it never left.
VICTOR -- A vision two years ago by Victor resident Doug DeBrower, a veteran rolle bolle player and longtime organizer of tournaments in Iowa County, to create a mural depicting the game he loves came to fruition this spring.
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The Belgians developed Rolle Bolle as we know it, a game playedon bare ground with stakes set 30 feet apart. The bevelled bolle isrolled from one stake to the other. As it slows down, it turns intothe stake and comes to rest. The bolle, or bolles, that are closestto the stake scores.
There are several games that are traditionally played by the people of Belgium and are similar to those played in other cultures. The widely popular game of Belgian darts or darts, originated in Belgium, and was based on an older game that used stuffed birds instead of darts. Krachtbal has elements of soccer and basketball. Crossage is an early version of modern day golf, and rolle bolle is very similar to the European game bocce. The popular card game colour whist is an alternative version to the game whist that preceded modern-day bridge and hearts.
Virtually all forms of modern English Skittles (except one) feature projectiles being propelled from one end of an alley in an effort to knock down nine pins stood in a square at the other end. That is about all that many of the games do have in common, though, and over the years, Skittles developed regional variations in skittle size and shape, skittle alley length, use of a kingpin, size and shape of the balls/cheeses and the rules began to vary quite radically across England. One of the most marked divisions is in the method for actually throwing the balls or cheeses. In London, the heavy cheese is flung full toss directly at the skittles, over in the West country balls are rolled down the full length of the alley while in the midlands the Long Alley game usually requires the cheese or ball to bounce a single time before hitting the skittles.
It can be argued with some merit that Long Alley is a closer game to old English Skittles than the more common Western Skittles due to the fact that the ball or cheese is thrown rather than rolled. The Old English game regrettably has almost died out but that brings us now to London Skittles...
It should be noted that the game of four corners, as shown in the picture used to be a 4 pin version of London Skittles - with bomb shaped pins and a cheese that was thrown. The version currently played in the West Country is, of course, played in the West Country style with balls being rolled down the alley.
An unusual game called Rolly Polly or Half-Bowl is or used to be played in England in which a bowl with huge bias is used. The ball was rolled at 12 pins in a circle, the catch being that the bowl must go past the circle of pins and another pin a bit further away before returning, due to the bias, in the reverse direction. The game can be thought of as a version of Table Skittles played on the floor with the bias replacing the need for the suspension of the ball on a pole and some have speculated that this is how Rolly Polly originated. It seems more likely, however, that the biased ball is just an alternative solution to try to reduce the amount of space needed for the skittles game. 2ff7e9595c
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