Games {basket game} for two people or teams can use an empty clean wastebasket and a ping-pong ball. Basket is like half-court basketball, with no dribbling. Put basket on floor near wall middle, with no nearby window. Players can put ball in basket by bounce, off wall, or through air, but they cannot put hand in cylinder of air above basket rim or touch basket. Handicap can require taller or more skilled players to stay farther way from basket. Perhaps, players cannot stay too close to basket for more than few seconds. For fouls, use free throws or just award basket. Alternate games are basket-making contests, like "HORSE".
Players can use pool cues to strike a cue ball to hit both red balls on a pool table with no pockets {billiards}|.
Mallets can strike medium-size wooden balls to put them through a wicket sequence {croquet}|.
Two players, starting with 14 dominoes each, can match dots on domino ends, to try to use all dominoes first {dominoes}|.
People can throw modified horseshoes {horseshoes}| to try to touch or encircle a post.
Players can use a pool cue to strike a cue ball to knock medium-size plastic balls into pockets on a table with six pockets {pool}|. Players subtract a ball if cue ball goes into a pocket. Player turn ends if no ball goes into a pocket. Pool games include snooker, eight ball, and straight pool.
Players can bet on the number into which a small metal ball falls on a spinning roulette wheel {roulette game}|: odd, even, red, black, 0, 00 in USA, either half, any third, and/or any fourth.
Players can use a crook to slide disks onto a marked triangle, for points {shuffleboard}|.
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