Finnish skittles game

🎳 Discover the Finnish skittles game, perfect for playing with your loved ones this summer! This traditional game is a great summer gift idea ☀️ as it brings both young and old together around a fun outdoor activity. Ideal for family picnics 🧺, garden drinks with friends 🍹 or relaxed afternoons together, it offers an original alternative to a classic game of pétanque or Breton shuffleboard.

If you prefer to stick with pétanque games, take a look at our engraved pétanque boules set 🎯, a gift that is always very popular during the summer season.

📋 For those curious to learn more about this wooden skittles game, here are a few details about the rules. The game consists of 12 numbered wooden skittles. Players must throw a cylindrical wooden baton, called the Mölkky, to knock down the skittles, a bit like in bowling 🎯.

But the big question for the more competitive players is: how do you win? The aim is to be the first player to reach exactly 50 points, without going over.

And how are the points counted? It depends on the skittles knocked down: if a player knocks down only one skittle, they score the number shown on that skittle. If they knock down several skittles, they score the number of skittles that have fallen.

The challenge is not to exceed 50 points, otherwise a penalty applies and your score drops back to 25 points 😅. And be careful: if you miss your throw three times in a row, you are eliminated from the game! 🚫

🎉 You now know the rules of this famous traditional Finnish game. All that remains is to wish you good luck 🍀… and warn you that the competition can become quite intense, with plenty of twists and turns! 😄🔥