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of their throwers (marked in any distinct colour) at the opponents row. Once finished, the opposing teams is then allowed to throw their throwers. This goes on until the game ends. The first team to knock down all of the opposing team's bones wins the game, however each team is allowed to throw the same number of bones. If the team that went first knocked down all of the opposing teams bones first, the opposing team is allowed to throw back any of the bones that the other team used to attempt to knock down the remaining bones on the other team. In an event of a tie, an extra game is played.
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there is no more space and another bone gets knocked down, the bone will be placed 5 cm (2 in) behind the replaced bone. If any of these bones are knocked down a second time, it shall be placed 5 cm (2 in) outside of the nearest guard and so on. If one of these bones is knocked down a third time it will be replaced where it fell.
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Bunnock consists of two parallel rows of bones, each with 20 soldiers (marked in white) and 2 guards (marked in black). The objective of the game is to knock down your opponents bones, starting with the guards, after this you are able to hit the soldiers in any order. The team going first throws all
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Russian origin. The aim of Bunnock is to throw bones at an oppositions rows of bones, trying to do so in the fewest throws possible. The team that knocks down all of the oppositions bones first, wins. Bunnock is played in teams of four, which must contain at least one person
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Two rows of 20 soldiers are placed parallel of each other, spaced 10 metres (32 ft 10 in) apart. A guard is placed on either end of the row, spaced out 40 cm (16 in) away from the row. An umpire flips a coin and calls a captain to call
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