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Finnish pin toss

Also known as Mölkky

Finnish pin toss: photograph by Lasse Keskinen
Photo: Lasse Keskinen, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Throw a wooden pin underhand at 12 numbered skittles; one toppled pin scores its number, several score the count, first to exactly 50 wins (overshoot drops to 25).

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Finland.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Age of Contact and Craft (about 1500 to 1800), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Northern and Eastern Europe.

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