Croquet

In 1951, Disney adapted Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland into a movie by the same name. A naïve girl named Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a whole new world, characterized by bizarre creatures, talking animals, and even stranger customs. One such tradition is the Queen of Heart’s game of croquet, with flamingos for mallots, human cards for hoops, and live hedgehogs for balls.

How many of you would play a game that involved bowling balls, sledgehammers, where an object of the game to get your ball through all the hoops in the proper order, hit the flags, become a zombie, and knock out all your opponents?

Gateball is fasted paced, team version of croquet that was created in Japan as a recreational sport for young people in 1947. It has been picked up and is now played internationally.

Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops embedded in a grass playing court.