Nine Holes

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Game	Nine Holes
Game Family	Hat ball Hat ball
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Description	Sometimes described as a board game or a form of quoits, Nine Holes is elsewhere (1853-1868) depicted as a running game -- in which players had to run among holes without being plugged by a ball -- that resembles Hat-ball and Egg-Hat.
Sources	The Boy's Own Book, pages 29-30.  Ball Games (Routledge, 1860), page 54.  The Boy's Handy Book  (Ward and Lock, London, 1863), pages 18-19. Alfred Elliott, The Playground and the Parlour (Nelson and Sons, London, 1868) page 56.
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