Kubb
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Kubb is a lawn game where the objective is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing wooden batons at them. Kubb can be described as a combination of bowling and horseshoes. Play takes place on a small
2012 US National Championship in Eau Claire, WI
Kubb King on an unused pitch during final rounds of the 2013 USA Kubb National Championship
Boys playing the game kaisers with—the author insists—the wrong pins
A typical set
Finnish skittles
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Finnish skittles, also known as Karelian skittles, outdoor skittles or kyykkä, is a centuries-old game of Karelian origin. The aim in Finnish skittles is to throw wooden skittle bats at skittles, tryi
Kubb
…the requirement to throw from behind one's own pins; though as in the Polish game, the main projectile is a ball rather than a baton. The Karelian game kyykkä and the possibly Siberian game bunnock both feature team sides and (unlike the Polish game and kaisers) use versions of batons as projectiles rather…
The Finnish Champion in men's individual game in 2007, Mika Peiponen (Nurmes Skittles Club), playing in Finnish Championships in Äänekoski, 2003.
President of Finland Urho Kekkonen playing kyykkä (Finnish skittles) in Seurasaari in 1974
Finnish skittles playing at Lappeenranta
Left: Veli-Pekka Juvonen playing individual skittles in Äänekoski, 2002. Right: Esko Rautiainen playing in a team event in Imatra, 2003.