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Bagatelle

Also known as pin table

Bagatelle: photograph by Olivier Merly, responsable du Fonds Patrimonial du Jeu de Société
Photo: Olivier Merly, responsable du Fonds Patrimonial du Jeu de Société, Public domain, source on Wikimedia Commons

Pull the spring plunger and shoot a ball up a pin-studded board into numbered cups, scoring for each.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of France, United Kingdom.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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