Anyone ever played bocce ball?

...or bocci - which (I believe is Italian - meaning "kiss"...) The ideal is to played it on a long, narrow, packed-clay court enclosed with boarded ends and sides. This is much like the raised vegetable gardens that many older Italian men will place in their backyards...maybe this is what they choose to do to replace the tomatoes once in awhile. Anyway...each player or team in turn rolls four balls toward a smaller target ball....called the palina... the object is to bring the ball to rest nearest the palina and then points are awarded at the end of a round.

{Kissing the palina! } It can be a great time with strategies around plays like protecting a well-placed ball - by blocking with another ball, or to knock aside an opponent’s ball. The game usually proceeds until one side has 12 points.

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At every family gathering My father and his brothers and parents were born near Rome, Italy, and came to the States when he was a young teenager. Bocce is *the* game of the family. I'm pretty sure every brother (all eight of them) have their own set, and we all play at every family gathering.

Fourth of July parties, birthday parties, anniversary parties - we even once played after a wedding reception! After I moved away from home to go to college, I bought my own set of bocce balls, and I play with my friends around here often during the summer. Feels good to spread the family tradition to people who'd never heard of the game.

For those who don't know, Bocce is a form of Italian lawn bowling. There are generally 8 bocce balls, roughly the size of a Softball, but much heavier. And there is one very small ball, about twice the size of a golf ball, called the pollina (I'm sure that's not spelled correctly).

To start a game, one team throws the pollina some distance away. Then each team has four bocce balls. The object is to get as many of your bocce balls closer to the pollina than any of your opponents' bocce balls.

The team that threw the pollina goes first, then the other team. From there, which ever team currently does *not* have the closest bocce ball throws, until they have no more bocce balls left, then the other team throws the rest of their balls. (By the way, every time I say "throw" I really mean roll, or bowl).

The game is made more exciting by the fact that your bocce balls can hit and move your own bocce balls, your oponents' bocce balls, and even the pollina itself. Once all eight bocce balls have been thrown, the team that has the bocce ball closest to the pollina scores points, one point for each bocce ball closer to the pollina than any of the opponents' bocce balls. The next round starts by throwing the pollina again, usually we play until one team has 11 points.

I think in "real" official league-style bocce, there's an actual grass or dirt course with a defined location for which to throw the pollina. But when the family plays, we play with natural boundaries. Pretty much everything's in play - trees, walls, random twigs on the ground, hills and slopes, etc.It can be a lot of fun playing in a new location, because every game is different.

If you've never played, pick up a cheap set at your local sporting goods store, and get about four people together. It's a lot of fun. Sources: family history.

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Great game. I come from a large Italian family so I grew up playing bocce ball. You can play either one-on-one or with teams (generally two person teams).

Basically, you've got two to four sets of colored balls and one smaller ball. You throw the little ball off into the distance (say 20-30 feet) and then you take turns throwing the larger balls at the small ball -- the idea being that you want your large ball to land as close as possible to the little ball. Now, if the person or people you're playing against land one of their balls close to the little ball, you want to knock their ball(s) out of the way (and, again, hopefully your ball is now closest to the little ball).

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Yes. I've played. Bocce ball is cool, doesn't exclude, and transcends language barriers.

I've played it with elementary children and they loved it. I've played it with people with whom I can't communicate because we spoke different languages and they loved it. You can take it anywhere (if you can lift the 10 pounds) and play it in most any yard..

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