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Lawn bowls

Also known as biased-bowl green

Lawn bowls: photograph by PookieFugglestein
Photo: PookieFugglestein, CC0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Roll biased bowls so they curve in toward a small white jack; the closest bowls to the jack score, and you can nudge or knock rivals aside.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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