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How to play short mat bowls.
The game includes obstacles to make up for the smooth play surface.
The short mat game began in ireland and was later introduced into this country.
There now exists the english short mat bowling association e s m b a which is supported by regional associations.
Points are gained each end for bowls closer than your opponent.
Short mat bowls is an indoor sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a heavy ball along a fairly flat surface to gain as many shots as possible by getting their bowls nearer to the jack than their opponents and so outscore them.
A quick guide to short mat bowls.
Each team takes turns rolling large heavy balls called bowls down a mat in an attempt to get closest to a certain point.
The game has its own set of rules and any prospective player would do well to be conversant with them before playing the game proper.
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Short mat bowls is based on the outdoor sport of lawn bowls so many of the rules are adaptations of the rules of the outdoor game with the basic aim being to deliver as many woods bowls as possible nearer to the smaller target bowl the jack than any of the opposition s woods.
Short mat bowls is played indoors by two teams of up to four players on a mat instead of on a lawn.