Bunnock

Bunnock, also called the game of bones or simply bones, is a throwing game played with the ankle bones of horses, now usually replaced by resin replicas. Two teams of four players, who must include at least one person of the opposite sex and may be of any age, throw bones underhand at each other's parallel row of twenty soldiers and two guards set about ten metres apart. The guards must fall first, and the first team to knock down the whole opposing row wins, though both teams get the same number of throws. The most widely accepted account places its origin in northern Siberia in the early nineteenth century, as a version of the Mongolian game shagai played by Russian soldiers, and says Russian and German immigrants brought it to Saskatchewan in the early 1900s. In the 1960s Joseph Gartner of Macklin wrote the rulebook still used, and Macklin now hosts the World Bunnock Championships each August.