CHILDREN’S GAMES—FARM YARD CROQUET-GOLF.

CHILDREN’S GAMES—FARM YARD CROQUET-GOLF. Another game we invented was a form of golf played with croquet equipment. There were 18 holes. Each player took turns specifying where the wicket that was the target would be placed and where all the players would start (“tee off”). The beauty of the game was that a player who fell behind had an incentive when it was his or her turn to make the “hole” as difficult as possible so that there would be more opportunity to catch up. We did not have a name for the game. I have called it “farm yard croquet-golf” because the first time we played it was a farm yard when we were visiting cousins in Iowa. In that first game, the 18th hole began with the players teeing off from the top of a chicken coop. I forget where the final wicket was placed, but I remember that “par” was a very high number.