SQUAILS

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-SQUAILS-

• By Amanda Koepping and Kim Salber

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History When, Where, and How it Originated

• WHEN
• 1400s
• Early eighteenth century
• U.S. in 1913
• WHERE
• Originated in England (London)
• first published by John Jaques in 1857
• When moved to U.S. was published by Milton
• Bradley Gamesnot anymore

• HOW
• On a round table
• To entertain royal family

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Continuing History Influencing Factors

• The amount of competitiveness that has developed
  throughout history
• Compete for prizes
• Not just for entertainment
• Update in technology
• Surface
• Sticks/Cues
• Not just for royalty anymore but for everyone
• Teams-not a 2 player game

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How it was originally played

• OBJECTIVE
• to hit discs with the heel of the hand from the
  edge of the table at a small lead target in the
  center called a jack.
• RULES
• If the jack was moved more than six inches it was
  replaced.  
• Once all sixteen squails (the small wooden discs)
  had been played, they were scored 16 for the
  squail nearest to the target down to 1 for the
  squail furthest away. 
• Knock an opponents squail away, as much as to
  end up near the target. --and still get rewarded
  points while their opponent lost points.

JACK V
SQUAILS ?

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.and the game of Squails today.

• Todays version is known as Shuffleboard
• Introduced around 1913 at Daytona Beach, Florida,
  as a game on land yet the modern form of
  Shuffleboard was defined at St. Petersburg,
  Florida in 1924
• Played on a flat and slick surface
• Now can be team sport now
• Players use long-handled sticks called cues to
  try to push plastic discs into the scoring area
  at the other end of the table
• A player may also try to knock the opponents
  disk out of the
• scoring area or into a penalty space
• Played mostly in USA , England
• and Canada, but is gaining
• popularity in many other countries

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