Jakkolo
Jakkolo , also called Sjoelen , is a game of skill that is also practiced as a sport.
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Material and rules
The game is played on a 2 m long, 40 cm wide wooden board (sjoelbak). At the end of this board there are four gate openings with boxes and different ratings. Starting from the left you count 2 - 3 - 4 - 1 points for a hit. Round, concave wooden game pieces are put into these boxes by handpushed, which have a diameter of 51 mm and a thickness of 13 mm. There are 10 additional points if you hit each box with a target, i.e. H. a "situation" authority. With 30 targets, this results in a maximum total number of 148 points (seven per box corresponds to 7 × 20 plus twice the “4”). The problem is that discs that have not been recessed block the direct route into the boxes, which means that it is necessary to play over the boards or to play a blocking disc. Duration of the game: When all targets have been played, the player may play the targets in front of the goals twice again. Then the points in the boxes are counted.
history
The game, which is over 400 years old, has its origins in the Netherlands , where it is called Sjoelen . Long forgotten, it was brought back to life as a sport from the 1920s. But it wasn't until 1968 that a major tournament with 1200 players took place again. Today in the Netherlands there are more than 100 associations in the ANS association with over 6000 members.
The German name is a word created by the German businessman Jakobus Schmidt from Oldenburg, who gave the short form of his first name "Jakko" with the ending -lo and spread the game under this name in Germany . He discovered the game in Holland in 1960 and then sold it in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The DJB (Deutscher Jakkolo Bund) was founded on September 16, 1995 in Wüsting near Oldenburg in Lower Saxony. That year the first official international match between Germany and the Netherlands took place in Wüsting, which the Dutch players clearly won. In the meantime, there are also country tournaments with Belgium and the former Dutch colony of Suriname . In 2008 the first World Cup was held in the Netherlands. World championships with up to 9 countries and almost 200 players have also been held in Germany (2011) and the Czech Republic (2015).
