How to play petanque
1. The game is played singles, doubles or triples. In singles and doubles each player uses three boules but in triples only two boules.
2. The starting team is decided by toss of a coin. One member of the team chooses the starting place and draws on the ground a circle in which to stand, 35 cm to 50cm across. Both feet of the thrower must remain inside the circle till the boule lands.
3.The first thrower throws the cochonnet between 6m and 10m away, not nearer than one metre from any obstacle (wall, tree etc)
4. He then throws his first boule trying to place it as near as possible to the cochonnet.
5. A player of the opposite team then comes into the circle and tries to throw his boule nearer to the cochonnet, or knock away the leading boule. The boule nearest to the cochonnet leads.
6. Then it is up to a player in the team not leading to throw until his team gets a leading boule, and so on...
7. When a team has no more boules the players of the other team throw theirs and try to place them as close as possible to the cochonnet.
8. When both teams have no more boules the points are counted. The winning team gets as many points as it has boules nearer than the best of the losing team.
9. A player of the winning team throws the cochonnet from where it is, and the game starts again until one team reaches 13 points.