Beer Can Bocce

Beer Can Bocce is a fun outdoor game played similarly to Bocce Ball or Bocce. In Bocce players roll a small white ball called the jack and larger colored balls down a rectangular, grassy green. The Player whose ball is the closest to the jack wins a point. In Beer Can Bocce, similar rules apply, but an empty beer can will replace the jack, and hard plastic six-pack snap rings replace the colored balls.

A few simple things found at a backyard barbecue or campground are all you need to play this fun and thrilling outdoor game.

One empty beer can

You need at least four colored plastic six-pack snap rings. Two per player. The kind found mostly on craft beer sixpacks. Try to match colors or draw on numbers or symbols to make pairs sets.

A playing area about 10 by 20 ft

An understanding of Bernoulli's Principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle

First, pick an area of play. The play starts with one player tossing an Empty Beer Can, the EBC (like the jack in Bocce), down the playing area. Players then take turns, aiming and flinging the Sixpack Snap Ring or the SSR at the EBC. Similar to Bocce, the player with the nearest SSR wins a point. If a players two SSRs are the closest, that player wins two points. Players then retrieve the EBC. The play continues in the opposite direction. Play continues until one player wins 21 points.

Sixpack Snap Rings are airfoils and fly not unlike the discs used in Disc Golf or Ultimate Frisbee. Most of the action is in the wrist. Hold it flat and with a quick flick of the wrist, the SSR will fly level and straight for ten or more feet. By angling the SSR up or down along its axis, or sideways, different flight curves will occur. This is helpful on breezy days. The plastic of the SSR can be deformed to change flight characteristics.

Have a BYOSPCB Party (Bring Your Own Sixpack of Craft Beer) to collect the SSRs and EBCs needed to play BCB.

Drink your beer responsibly!!!

If you have a large playing area, set up six EBCs at a distance of forty to fifty feet in a link- like fashion and play a miniature disc golf-like game.

Attrition Game——An equal number of players line up across from each other. The first player flings the SSR across to the other side. If the receiving team catches the SSR, the throwing team loses the player that threw the SSR. If the receiving team misses the catch, it loses a player. The team with the last two players wins.

By holding the SSR at a corner and with an upward tilt and using a snap release, the SSR can hit the target.

Reuse or recycle plastics and cans after play.

Happy Play!!! Play Happy!!!