ROPE AND NAILS FOOTBALL GAME
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MATERIALS
- Thick wooden board which can hold nails
- Nails of different sizes
- Sewing thread or any kind of rope
- Round object that will represent as a ball (normally use turkey berry)
- Sticks
- Chalk
HOW TO SETUP
- Draw lines on board; center line, throw line, corner line, 18 box
- Nail the four corners on the board
- Nail other two (2) in between the nails
- Nail four (4) tall nails in a square distance to represent the poles. Same at the opposite side
- Use rope to wrap around the nails from top to down, so it can keep everything inside from falling outside. Also tie the poles.
- Nail some nails in the pole leaving some spaces at the sides for a ball to be able to enter
- Put some nails in the 18 box to represent defenders, some at the sides to represent wings, some forward to represent forward and some for strikers
- Do same for the opposite side
- Now our game is set to play
NOTE: be specific with the size of nails at each point.
HOW TO PLAY
- Each player will stand at the opposite of the poles with his stick
- The ball will be dropped at the center and the stick will be used to strike the ball into the opponent’s pole.
RULES
- Rule of the game is just like the normal soccer game played on the field
- The highest scorer becomes the winner of the game
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