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I'll admit to being a bit of a lazy git here. What follows is only really a rough outline of a section of "Keg!" on pub games. Feel free to help me flesh it out with your own memories of games played in pubs. I'd especially like to know about any regional pub games, both indoor and outdoor.
Here goes. You'll see how rough it is.
Like many things about pubs, games were regional. Even something as simple as darts.
Darts
I’ve mentioned darts, so let’s start there. In Newark, a doubles board was common. It’s like a standard board, but without the treble ring.
In the East End, I drank in a few pubs that had a fives board. The sections were larger and the only numbers were 5, 10, 15 and 20. It had both a double and a treble ring.
The Manchester board was trickiest to play. Smaller in size and with a tiny double and no treble, it was made extra difficult by having most of the numbers in different positions.
I played darts a fair bit in pubs. Well, mostly in pubs.
Cards
The classic pub card game was cribbage. It being one of the few games being generally legal to play for small stakes. Score was kept on cribbage board, which was also used for scoring some other games, such as dominoes.
Other games were played, but were by no means as common.
Dominoes
One of the most common games to be found in pubs. Quite often in the form of fives and threes. A game played by pairs and more intellectually challenging than simple straight out. And also scored on a crib board.
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Table games
By that, I mean games like billiards that are played by knocking balls around a table.
Far the most common of these games was pool. Often the pool table was in the public bar, or, in pubs with many rooms, in its own special one. In rougher pubs, they were notorious as fight starters.
Bar billiards was rarer, but could be found in the occasional pub.
I can never recall seeing a full-size snooker table in a pub. If you wanted to play snooker, you had to go to a club.
Video games
The first video games began to appear in pubs in this period. The first being tennis, which started popping up in the early years of the 1970s. Followed a couple of years later by Space Invaders and Galaxian.
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I'll admit to being a bit of a lazy git here. What follows is only really a rough outline of a section of "Keg!" on pub games. Feel free to help me flesh it out with your own memories of games played in pubs. I'd especially like to know about any regional pub games, both indoor and outdoor.
Here goes. You'll see how rough it is.
Like many things about pubs, games were regional. Even something as simple as darts.
Darts
I’ve mentioned darts, so let’s start there. In Newark, a doubles board was common. It’s like a standard board, but without the treble ring.
In the East End, I drank in a few pubs that had a fives board. The sections were larger and the only numbers were 5, 10, 15 and 20. It had both a double and a treble ring.
The Manchester board was trickiest to play. Smaller in size and with a tiny double and no treble, it was made extra difficult by having most of the numbers in different positions.
I played darts a fair bit in pubs. Well, mostly in pubs.
Cards
The classic pub card game was cribbage. It being one of the few games being generally legal to play for small stakes. Score was kept on cribbage board, which was also used for scoring some other games, such as dominoes.
Other games were played, but were by no means as common.
Dominoes
One of the most common games to be found in pubs. Quite often in the form of fives and threes. A game played by pairs and more intellectually challenging than simple straight out. And also scored on a crib board.
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Table games
By that, I mean games like billiards that are played by knocking balls around a table.
Far the most common of these games was pool. Often the pool table was in the public bar, or, in pubs with many rooms, in its own special one. In rougher pubs, they were notorious as fight starters.
Bar billiards was rarer, but could be found in the occasional pub.
I can never recall seeing a full-size snooker table in a pub. If you wanted to play snooker, you had to go to a club.
Video games
The first video games began to appear in pubs in this period. The first being tennis, which started popping up in the early years of the 1970s. Followed a couple of years later by Space Invaders and Galaxian.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/09/pub-games-in-1970s.html)