My friends and I invented a wicked game that's a hybrid or croquet and baci ball. One of them showed up at a bbq with one of those cheap sets you get from crappy tire that has croquet clubs and baci balls. We basically played baci ball, but used the croquet clubs to hit the ball, but instead of just taking one shot, we would keep playing until someone actually hit the white ball with their colored ball.
We stole a couple rules from golf where the guy furthes back hits first, and we played 18 "holes".
If you hit another players ball, you get another shot, so it's fun to screw your friends (haha!) by hitting their ball on the way to the white ball. Your extra shot supercedes the furthest back rule, so the strategy is to work your way close to the white ball by knocking your opponents' balls on the way.
Once a player hits the white ball, he wins the hole and then picks it up and tosses it wherever, and voila, the next hole begins however the balls lie.
I don't know how that sounds to the reader, but we had a blast playing this game one fine afternoon. We just played on the chain of front lawns on my buddy's street.
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