On Thursday 25 June from 6.30pm to 9.00pm Rye News is holding a sociable and fun petanque (boules) evening at Salts Farm shop car park. This is an opportunity to try your hand at playing this easy-to-learn game and any group or charity is welcome to join the Rye News team. Boules will be provided and the shop will be open for refreshments.
Basic rules
- Players use metal balls of diameter between 7cm and 8cm, the weight must not exceed 800g
- The Jack is wooden and must be between 25mm and 30mm.
- Player chooses a starting place and draws a circle on the ground where the players stand, and throws the Jack between six metres and 10 metres away. It must not be nearer than one metre from any obstacle (wall, tree etc)
- The player then throws his first ball trying to get it close as possible to the Jack. Both feet must remain on the ground within the circle until the ball has made contact with the ground.
- Opposing player steps into the circle and tries to place his ball closer to the Jack than his opponent or by knocking his opponent's ball away. The nearest to the Jack leads.
- It’s then up to the player (team) which is not leading to continue until they have achieved one leading ball and so on
- When one team has no more balls then the players of the other team throw their balls and try to place them as close as possible to the Jack. When the two teams have no more balls, the winning team gets as many points as it has balls closest to the Jack.