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Family Fun at Ancient Sport
Family Fun at Ancient Sport
Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent
It was mainly sunny but there were light showers intermittently; but this didn’t dampen the spirits of the 48 teams of participants during the 15th annual Vegreville Bunnock Tournament on August 17 and 18.
Participants came from quite a few different locales including: Edmonton, Saskatchewan, St. Albert, British Columbia, Vegreville, and surrounding area.
Marvin and Sherry Beaudette, members of the Vegreville Bunnock Association, said the best part about Bunnock is that it is a game anyone can play. People in this game ranged from 10 years of age to late 80’s. “The socialization aspect is also great!”
At this event, there was also a costume contest where the Tooth Fairies team won by people’s choice.
In the evening, The Off Ramp Boys provided musical entertainment
Bunnock is a unique game. Topendsports website wrote Bunnock, also commonly known as "Game of Bones" and sometimes as Glockenspiel, is a kind of Skittles game that is played with bones. The game is believed to have been created as a pastime activity in the early 19th century by Russian soldiers stationed in northern Siberia. It is a fun game that later turned into a competitive sport.
Bunnock is a team sport in which the objective for each team is to knock down the other team's row of bones. The standing bones have to be knocked down in a specific order to be counted as valid.
Originally soldiers used horses’ anklebones but the modern bones are usually a resin replica version of the horses’ anklebones.
