Indeed, the Loggets World Championship is being held this Sunday, the 14th of August (Sussex World), I kid you not! The game of Loggets (or Loggats) has been around since the 14th century at least, when King Edward III proclaimed that, on Feast Days, every able-bodied man should practice using bows and arrows/bolts/pellets, specifically forbidding many games, including Loggats, on "pain of imprisonment" (James Masters), So, it wasn't a rarely played game by 1363, although very rare now!
So what is Loggets? Traditionally, it's a game where you throw sticks at a stake in the ground (Free Dictionary); on Sunday it will be throwing pieces of wood, or loggets, at a figurine called The Tom. Each team member will have 3 loggets to throw.
Accordingly, on Sunday, in the back garden of the Stag Inn, 14 All Saints Street TN34 3BJ (website), from 2.00pm, the Loggets World Championship 2022 begins. Apparently, they're very welcoming to 'newbies' to the game, that is, in teams of 2, and the entry fee costs £2 per team member; with proceeds being donated to the RNLI, a very worthy cause indeed, nice one!
I think you shouldn't fear imprisonment for playing Loggets these days, so feel safe to enter the Loggets World Championship and good luck to all that enter!
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