What Is Ladder Ball?
Ladder Ball is played two players using bolos, two golf balls attached by a short cord. Points are scored by tossing a bolo onto a rung of a three-stepped ladder.
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Equipment and Setup
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Two colored sets of three bolos and a three-runged ladder are used. The ladder is upright and play starts from a toss line 15 feet or five paces from the ladder. A shorter distance may be used for children.
Rules
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Players alternate their three tosses by round. Any toss is acceptable, including bouncing the bolo off the ground. Bolos must be tossed individually.
Competitors should make noise, discouraging remarks and be distracting, but a tossing player must never be touched. The round winner tosses first next round.
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Scoring
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Points are scored when a toss wraps around a rung. Bolos knocked off score no points. The bottom rung is worth one point, the middle two and the top three. Three bolos on the same rung, or one on each, scores 10 points.
Winning the Game
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Exactly 21 points by a single player wins. If tied, play continues until a round is won by two or more.
AKA
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Ladder ball is also called hillbilly golf, ladder golf and monkey bars golf.
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