Games People Play (Indoors)
If you’re looking for an entertaining addition to your basement or game room or trying to brush up on your ping pong skills, you need a ping pong table that delivers high quality. But you probably don’t want to break the bank if you’re not competing professionally.
We’ve broken down the elements to look for when you’re buying a ping pong table and detailed the pros and cons of three of the best ping pong table options. [Read more…]
Foosball is one of those things that you always see from place to place, but don’t get to explore the deeper intricacies of unless you’re a committed enthusiast.
For those that don’t know, Foosball, alternatively known as table football, a tabletop game designed to mimic soccer. There are figurines that resemble soccer players (footballers), affixed to rods, that participants manipulate to flick the ball downfield and score goals on their opponents.
There are eight rods in total (four for each player) with varying numbers of footballers attached to each. Though games are typically played to five points, seven and nine point variations of the game exist, and rounds usually go best of three or best of five.
Believe it or not, there are even pro tournaments for this humble game in which participants compete for the chance at hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
No matter your level of play, though, the common thread is that you need a good foosball table to get started, so read on to learn which is the best foosball table overall. [Read more…]
Is there a greater one-on-one test of skill than air hockey? This thrilling game, developed in the late 1960s by Billiard manufacturing greats Brunswick Billiards, has a simple enough concept. Two players face off, using the air hockey mallets to knock the pucks past their opponent’s defenses.
The rudimentary premise, however, belies the intense level of skill necessary to compete at the top-tier of play. Indeed, air hockey’s competitiveness had led to no end of tournaments and professional-style face-offs between those that have mastered the game.
If you want to increase your ability at this contest of skill, whether for fun or to begin your career as a competitive player, you’re going to need a suitable table to do it on.
Read on to learn which is the best air hockey table overall.
The sport goes by many names: pool, pocket billiards, six-pocket if you’re a bit older. There are hundreds of pool games that you play, though the most common game types include Eight-ball, wherein the objective is to pocket all the solid or stripe balls first, then sink the eight ball to claim victory.
Other popular game varieties include Nine-ball, Three-ball, One-pocket, and several others. The objective for each style of pool is different, but they all have one critical detail in common: you can’t play them without a pool table.
Furthermore, you need to make sure you get the right pool table, as it’s easy to mistake other similar tables for the one you need or get a pool table that won’t properly do the job.
Read on to learn which is the best pool table overall. [Read more…]
If you’ve been to a party in the last decade, chances are you’ve witnessed or perhaps even participated in a game of beer pong.
The game harkens back to the ‘70s, where it was featured in a New York Times article.
As a party favorite among young adults (and older ones, too) across the nation, beer pong is fast, fun, and easy to learn. All you need are a few supplies, and few friends, and few minutes to learn the rules.
This article will help you with basics, plus a few extras you can use for your next get-together. Read on for a quick overview of the rules of beer pong. [Read more…]