Bocce Ball Blues

A bunch of us were at Sadies and played Bocce Ball this Thursday, but I’m sure not everybody knew exactly how to play it. Bocce is a ball-sport belonging to the Boules sport family. It is mostly played in Europe and in countries where there are Italian immigrants like North America and South America. This game most resembles bowling.
According to ehow.com, these are necessary things to play:
8 Bocce Balls (4 of one color, 4 of another)
A pallina or small ball
Measuring Tape
The rules for playing Bocce Ball are as follows:
Depict a flat surface to play on that is made up of gravel or grass. An official court size is 76 feet long and 10 feet wide.
Separate players into 2 teams. An ideal number of players on each team is 2-4.
Have a player from one team stand at the foul line which is about 10 feet away from the end line and throw the small-ball to the opposite end of the court.
Then the same player must throw a bocce ball and the goal is to try to get the bocce ball as close to the “pallina” or small-ball as possible without touching it.
Have players from the opposing team take turns throwing their balls until one of the balls stops closer to the pallina than the starting player's ball. If they fail to do so, the starting team tries to outdo its first attempt.
Let the starting players take their second turn if the opposing team gets closer to the pallina than the starting team without using all of their balls.
Continue in this fashion until all eight balls have been thrown. The team with the closest ball gets one point for each of its balls that are closer to the pallina than the other team's closest ball.
End the frame after all eight balls have been thrown and appropriate points have been awarded. The scoring team begins the next frame. If no team previously scored, the team that threw the pallina last begins the next frame.

By: Ashley Kivikoski