Troco

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Troco

Troco (also called trucks and lawn billiards) is an English

England

Lawn game

A lawn game is any outdoor game that can be played on a lawn. Many games that are traditionally played on a Pitch are Marketing as "lawn games" for home use in a front or back yard....
played with ball

Ball

A ball is a round object with various uses. It is usually sphere but can be ovoid. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players....
s, cues

Cue stick

A cue stick , is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of Pocket billiards, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a Billiard ball, usually the ....
and ring

Hoop

A hoop is an object in the form of a circular band . Hoops are made of various materials in various sizes for various uses:* hoop skirts are constructed with hoops to hold the fabric of the garment away from the wearer's legs in a fashionable shape...
s that remained popular through the Early modern period

Early modern period

The early modern period is a term used by historians to refer to the period roughly between 1500 to 1800 in Western Europe . It follows the Late Middle Ages period, and is marked by the first European colony, the rise of strong centralized governments, and the beginnings of recognizable nation states that are the direct antecedents of today'...
to the early 20th century. It is a forerunner of croquet

Croquet

Croquet is a game played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena....
and perhaps of cue sports such as billiards.

Enquire Within Upon Everything, a "vast congregation of useful hints and receipts" published in the Victorian era

Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
, describes the game thus:

The oldest name in English seems to be "trucks" or "truck" from the Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
trucco and Spanish

Spanish language

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Troco (also called trucks and lawn billiards) is an English

England

Lawn game

Ball

Cue stick

A cue stick , is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of Pocket billiards, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a Billiard ball, usually the ....
and ring

Hoop

Early modern period

Croquet

Victorian era

Italian language

Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
troco meaning billiards. Troco was popular as a country house pastime in the 19th century. Under the name "lawn billiards", it appears as an alternative to croquet in a number of books of games and pastimes of the period. Troco was also played at pubs with large lawns, but apparently died out by the time of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
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