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Boccette rules

• Sets to 50–150
• FIBiS boccette rules

No cue: each player rolls or throws four balls by hand (white or red) from behind the lower short cushion. There is a small blue pallino and the 5-pin castle. Get close to the pallino and knock the pins with the opponent’s balls.

Doubled when your ball touches the far short cushion first.

Scoring

• 2Outer pinEach of the four outer pins
• 4Centre pinWhen it falls with other pins
• 8Centre pin, aloneWhen it is the only pin down
• ×2Off the far cushionYour ball touches the far short cushion first: pin points double
• 1–8AccostoAt the end of a frame, balls of one colour nearer the pallino than any opposing ball: 1, 3, 5 or 8 points
• ↔Whose pinsPins knocked by the opponent’s balls or the pallino count for you; by your own balls, for the opponent

Fouls

Friso

A ball you hit goes straight into the pins (off a cushion is fine): every point goes to the opponent.

Irregular throw

Hitting a ball not fully past the centre line, or before your ball touches the cloth, or pins first: the throw is cancelled and its points go to the opponent.

Ball off the table

6 points plus 2 per ball to the opponent.

Pallino in the lower half

You must play off the far short cushion.

A frame

• A player places the pallino in the upper half, then must hit it directly (bocciata d’acchito).
• The opponent throws next; then whoever has the worse accosto throws, until all eight balls are played.
• The winner of the accosto places the next pallino.
• The first to reach the target, with pins or the accosto, wins the set; points beyond it are lost.

Boccette goriziana

• Sets to 100–400
• FIBiS rules

Goriziana played by hand. Each player has one ball (white or red) and throws it at the shared yellow; there is also a blue pallino and the 9-pin castle. One throw each; your ball is then taken off, while the yellow and the pallino stay where they stopped.

Points count when the yellow, off a cushion, knocks the pins.

Scoring

• 2Outer pinEach of the four at the ends of the cross
• 8Inner pinEach of the four next to the centre
• 10Centre pinWhen it falls with other pins
• 30Centre pin, aloneWhen it is the only pin down
• 3PallinoYour ball touches it after the yellow, or the yellow touches it
• ×2IndirectYour ball touches a short cushion before the yellow: every point doubles, and the yellow may go straight into the pins

Fouls

Hit the yellow first; it must reach the pins or the pallino off a cushion.

Your ball in the pins

Your ball knocks pins after the yellow: the points go to the opponent.

Fisso / friso

The yellow goes straight into the pins, or sends the pallino straight into the castle: points to the opponent.

Fouls: 6 + points

Missing the yellow, pallino first (6 + 3), pins before the yellow, more than one short cushion before the yellow, a ball off the table (+2 each).

Mixed points

Points for you and for the opponent in the same throw all go to the opponent.

The set

• You always throw from the half opposite the yellow.
• The first to reach the target wins the set; points beyond it are lost.