Meaning of kayles | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The game of skittles or ninepins.
   dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
2. A simple impartial game in combinatorial game theory, in which players take turns to knock out one pin or two adjacent pins from a line of imagined bowling pins.
   uncountable

Examples

“Playing kayles, i.e. throwing a stick at ninepins, at Smithfield, 13th century.”

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