Typically played on the village green or outside the village pub pub games such as skittles were restricted by a statute of 1495 as henry vii was concerned about quotgames which are distracting tudor pubmen from archeryquotjoin a noble tradition of diversion set of 6 wooden skittles each pin 9quot tall 2 wide painted wooden ballincludes instructions for play18quot x 9 quot x 2 quot boxed2 teamsplayersage 3