Garden Skittles

This Page contains the Rules for all Jaques popular skittles games, 9 Pin, 6 Pin and our Famous Character Skittles.

Rules for 9 Pin Skittles.
To Play the Game of  Nine Pin firstly set the nine skittles up in a diamond formation, with each pin about 16 cm apart.  The throwing point is normally 5 metres from the skittles. you can be further away for a longer game.  Just make sure both players are the same distance away for each turn.
Players take it in turn to throw 3 balls each.  If all 9 skittles are knocked over by the first or second skittle ball, they are all set up again and the player gets a frree hand - ie a complete knock over or 'skittle' is a free turn, this means the player gets an extra go. this can be repeated 3 times maximum.
Therefore a players maximum possible score is 27 ( 3 x 9)!  A much more normal score is 7  .
You may play individually or as teams, each player adding their score to the team total.
The winner is the player, or team, with the highest score after an agreed number of rounds.
An excellent game, requiring considerable skill, but when not in use, the soldiers make a great centre point in any room setting.
 

Rules to Playing Six Pin skittles
Set the skittles up in a triangle formation, 3 at the back 2 in the centre row and 1 at the front with each soldier 16 cm apart.  The throwing point is normally 5 metres from the skittles.
Players take it in turn to throw 3 balls each.  If all 6 skittles are knocked over by the first or second skittle ball, they are all set up again.  Therefore a players maximum possible score is 18!  A much more normal score is 7.
You may play individually or as teams, each player adding their score to the team total.

The winner is the player, or team, with the highest score after an agreed number of rounds.

An excellent game, requiring considerable skill, but when not in use, the Garden Skittles make a great centre point in any room setting.

Character Skittles Rules
Set the  Giant Character skittles up in a triangle formation, 3 at the back 2 in the centre row and 1 at the front with each character about 16 cm apart.  The throwing point is normally 5 metres from the skittles, but this can be shorter for younger players.
Then each player must take it in turn to throw all 3 Skittles balls.
If all 6 skittles are knocked over by the first or second skittle ball, they are all set up again.
Therefore a players maximum possible score is 18!  A much more normal score is 7 to 10.
You may play this wonderful game individually or as teams, each player adding their score to the team total.
The winner is the player, or team, with the highest score after an agreed number of rounds.

Rules Magnum set of 9 characters
To Play the Game of  Nine skittles firstly set the skittles up in a diamond formation, with each skittle about 16 cm apart.
The throwing point is normally 5 metres from the skittles. you can be further away for a longer game.  Just make sure both players are the same distance away for each turn.
Players take it in turn to throw 3 balls each as above