GOBLINBALL

Peikkopallo ( finnish )

Trollboll ( swedish )

History:

Goblinball is an ancient scandinavian forestballgame. How it was developed is unknown but first written documents can be identified as far as 1680 ” Scripturum Nordicum ” by some unknown munk who was supposed to have been travelling around Europe. It is supposed to have to do something with the long, cold and dark winters as when summer came the people were so tired of snow and everything that they had to find some way to kill the memories of winter and wellcome summer. When playing Goblinball they also found the unexplored forests of Scandinavia. So Goblinball was one of the biggest reasons population did find its way to all parts of Scandinavia.

Rules:

Usually there are two teams both consisting two members of opposite sexes. First team has two gals and the other team has two men. The teams decide which team shall have the ball . After that the team with the ball shall go to the forest. There the teammembers decide which member shall have the ball. Then they separate and go further to the forest and hide themselves. After a reasonable time the other team separates and try to find the ball. As soon as one member of the other team finds the ball ( and the other member of the other team ) it is supposed that they”have a ball”.

They shall not show to the other players that they ” have a ball ” as the other players have to find eachother and when they do that they can notice that they “don’t have a ball” and they have to go find “a ball of their own”. The team can also have more members than two. The game starts always with one ball. When the ball is found and other members find that ” the ball is gone”, they have to go out from the forest and start a new game without those two players who ” have a ball ” and with a new ball. This way the game goes on and on until ” everybody has a ball ” and nobody is searching anybody.