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Hole Marbles Games

From the The Great American Marble Book on hole games:

Holilakes

This was the earliest English hole game. A hole was dug into the ground and the competition was to see who could toss or roll his marble in first. Intricate hole games evolved from this, such as Holy Bang.

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Holy bang

Place a marble in a dug out hole as a target. The first player able to get his marble into the hole and so hit the target marble three times is the winner and collects all of the missed marbles tossed in the game. Holilakes also spawned Cob, a game in which several players bowl their marbles into a series of four holes in the ground (see Rolly-Polly).

The varieties of hole games are endless, with specific rules being laid down for games of one, two, three, four or more holes to be dug. An ideal hole slopes smoothly into the ground at an angle of 45 degrees, and curves gently to the opposite slope. There should be no lip.

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Hundreds

This is another simple one-hole English game for two players. A hole is dug and a shooting line is drawn from eight to 15 feet. The players attempt to get their marbles into the hole. A player getting his shooter of boss in the hole receives 10 points, and has the option of either going back to the line for another shot at the hole or shooting at his opponent. A hit also counts 10 points. A person hitting one hit also loses 10, thus achieving 100 points can be a difficult and lengthy venture.

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Bun-hole

A hole in the ground is scooped out in the shape of a saucer, not deep but slightly concave, and marbles are shot at it from a shooting line about eight to 15 feet away. If more than one hole is used the game becomes Holy Bun-Hole. These basic one-hole games have traveled. Bun-Hole in England is Bunny-In-The-Hole in New England, and in Australia it is Basins, Bunny Hole, In The Hole, Holey and Goot.

In the American midwest it is called Bullseye, in Pennsylvania Puggy and up in New Hampshire it inspired a marbles game as a winter sport, Last Clams.

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