Our family likes to get together whenever we can and one of our family traditions is to play games in the yard. One game that we invented is a variation on the old, traditional and somewhat boring game of croquet. You remember croquet. Wooden balls, mallets and those fragile little wire hoops that the balls always bounce off of and never go through when you want them to.Croquet motocross is a lot more fun and it is aerobic!
Object of the Game:To be the first to hit your ball across the field, strike the wooden stake and then get back and put your ball through your own wicket before your competitors.
Rules of the Game:
1. Place all of the wickets in a line across one side of the lawn and place one of the multi colored croquet posts at the other side of the lawn.
2. A referee is stationed at the post to be sure that all players are competing fairly.
3. All contestants place their wooden balls in their own wicket and stand behind with their mallet all pointing toward the wooden stake at the far end of the field.
4. When someone shouts "Go!" all of the players hit their own ball as hard as they can toward the stake at the far end of the field.
5. All players are allowed to hit other contestants wooden balls along the way and send them off course but ultimately the goal is to hit your own ball and make the trip back over the field, hit the post with your ball and then go back and hit your own ball through your own wicket.
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