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Encyclopedia > Pub cricket

Car cricket, also known as pub cricket, is a car game which is played in the United Kingdom and other countries with many suitably named pubs.


The are several variations of the rules, but a typical version is as follows:
Taking it in turns during a journey, one player bats. This means he looks for pubs which the car passes. When one is found he gets a run (point) for each leg in the title of the pub. Thus the "Jolly sailor" gets 2 points whilst the "White horse" gets 4. If a pub has no legs, the batsman is out and it is the next player's turn.


Alternatively, two players sitting on either side of the car play simultaneously scoring runs for the pubs passed on their side of the road.


Disputes can occur with pubs named "King Henry's arms" (does this have legs?), and "Coach and horses" (count the horses on the picture outside the pub, 4 horses get 16 runs). Alternatively, ill defined groups such as the "Coach and horses" or "The Cavaliers" counts 10 runs.


The game's popularity has declined as roads in the UK have steadily been upgraded. Longer car journeys increasingly use motorways and major roads with town bypasses, hardly ever passing a public house. Younger players may not be aware of this problem and with luck can still be kept quiet, avidly looking out for a pub on a motorway.


Although it has yet to be seen, some players fear the day they pass a pub named the "Legless Millipede" scoring a frustrating zero points.


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Car cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (356 words)
Car cricket, also known as pub cricket, is a car game which is played in the United Kingdom and other countries with many suitably named pubs.
Another system scores points for the number of legs to a maximum of six, as in true cricket, while inanimate objects count for one.
The highest-scoring pub in Britain (so far) is "The Million Hare", in Plumstead, scoring 4 million points.
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