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I've started selling some of my toys & collectibles.As both an eBay Partner and Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. | |
Skittle Bowl and all of its friends.
Classic game series that started with Skittle Bowl in the mid1960s and continued on to what seems like an endless string of"Skittle" games. I remember (vaguely) the commercials for thegames which starred Don Adams. The rights to the games are nowowned by Marx which has re-issueda number of them. The onlyskittle game I had in my youth was Skittle Bowl. The one game I'm missing and really wishI had in my collection is the Olympic Skittle Bowl, a super-sized version of the original.Let me know if you have one you would like to part with. There was also a Skittle Baseball gamethat I'm not overly keen on getting.
I get a lot of requests for score sheets for bowling games so I made some: Bowling Score Sheet in Excel (21kb) or Bowling Score Sheet in PDF (5kb). I'vealso scanned some of the instructions sheets, links below with each game.
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| Item No. 5501 dated 1970. Skittle Bowl Instructions | |
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| Item No. 5511 dated 1972. Skittle Pool Instructions | |
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| Item No. 5520 dated 1972. | |
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| Item No. 5524 dated 1972. | |
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| Item No. 5560 dated 1973. Skittle Bingo Instructions | |
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| Item No. 5521. No date but probably 1972-1973. | |
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| Item No. 5522 dated 1972. | |
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| Item No. 5515 dated 1971. | |
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| Skittle Score-ball, the larger version. The All American Score-ball is shown at the top of the picture. Item No. 5510 dated 1971. | |
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| Skittle Bowling by Marx. The newer, inferior copy of the original.Plastic pins actually snap into detents in the board making them nearlyimpossible to knock over. This version is 16x16 inches square whilethe original by Aurora was huge at nearly two feet square. I don't havethe box so don't know the item number or datebut I purchased this for my sons sometime in the early 1990s. | |
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| Here is a crystal clear lucite skittle bowl game called Skittle Pins.This is a tiny (11x11 inches) version meant for the desktop. Madeby Peerless there is no item number or date. | |
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| A very much older skittle game called the "Hitand Touch Mechanical Bowling Game" from the Pee Dee Company inGary, Indiana. The coolest thing about this game is that the pinsare attached to cords and can be reset with the pull of a lever.My copy of this neat old game is complete in original box withthe instructions and scoring sheets. No item number though itdoes list a Trade Mark - 519654, there is no date to befound. | |
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| Another old skittle bowl-like game this is Buzz Ballby Electoy. A strong electomagnet is under the center of the board and thetwo buttons activate it to make the hanging ball swing. This toy is so oldthat the electrical cord is completely hardened and fragile. From theElectoy company in Indianapolis, IN, there is no date. | |
| Name: | Skittle Games |
| Manufacturer: | Aurora, re-issues by Marx, other miscellaneous. |
| Vintage: | The late 1960s through the mid 1970s, re-issues in 1990s |
| Obtained: | All came from
eBay (#Ad) |
| Other Links: |
Bowling Score Sheet in Excel (21kb) Bowling Score Sheet in PDF (5kb) Hi-Res scan of Skittle Bowl parts (with scale) (349kb) - turn your own pins! Skittle Bowl Instructions Skittle Pool Instructions Skittle Bingo Instructions |
| Look for it: |
Search for Skittle Games on eBay (#Ad) Search for Skittle Games on Amazon (#Ad) |
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Last Modified: May 23, 2006
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