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On pond and lake ice in winter, orcs play Nuuglah (“New-GLAH!”) which translated is “Bowling Gnomes” (nuug = gnome, gnomes, glah = to smite and knock over), the gnomes being marked by frozen dungpiles, rocks, or ice boulders.
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@TheEdVerse is their a sport similar to bowling in the Realms?
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On meadows and lawns, humans and elves and half-elves play Castledown, which is like lawn bowling (the “bowl” or ball that’s bowled to play is rolled, not thrown, but is round like a bocce ball, though imperfections are allowed, an inheritance of when broken-off...
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...statue heads, or skulls, were used; the jack or white target ball is “the castle”).
In the Moonsea North, the Vast, and the Dales, “Nine Knights” is played on pond and lake ice in winter: lines of nine identical "knights" or markers are set up in a straight...
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...line across the field of hurling, and discs of ice are tossed/bounced/slid across the ice to try to knock them over. Each player throws three “sieges,” scoring a point per knight fallen (knocked out of position doesn’t count if the knight ends up upright); ...
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...highest score wins, and ties mean extra sieges in elimination rounds.
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