You need:
A ring, it can be wood, metal, ceramic, whatever. A 1½ to 13/4 diameter is a good
size for a table game. I have seen
pictures of sets with big rings and large diameter dowels made to be played on
the patio. 18 - 27 pieces of dowel, 6 - 9 each of 3 different
diameters. The dowels need to almost
fill the ring but leave enough room that when the ring is held at 1/3 of the
length of the dowels from the top and lightly rotated the dowels will spread out
into a teepee shape and stand up. My
dowels are 6 inches long. The bundle of
sticks won’t collapse as easily if the ring sits higher up than half way.
Your playing surface needs to be smooth enough that the dowels will spread out but not so slick that the dowels keep going. I have used a thin piece of fabric over a really slick surface. Colored Sticks
Color the ends of the dowels in one of 3 colors usually red, yellow and blue, evenly distributing the colors over the 3 sizes of dowels. Have a 6-sided dice with two sides of each color. The individual colors do not need to be opposite on the dice. The trick here is to find or make dice.
If it appears to risky to pull out a stick of the color shown on the die you may pass IF you already have a stick of that color. You must put one stick of the color shown back in the game box to be able to pass. This stick will not count towards your final score. The first player to cause the ring to touch the playing surface loses and does not get points. Possible Scoring
Yellow sticks = 1 point Blue sticks = 2 points Red sticks = 3 points Playing with younger players; At the end of the game just count the number of sticks that
each player has.
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