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  • Reenactor Kimberly Dynia teaches Leo Cossey how play the game...

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    Reenactor Kimberly Dynia teaches Leo Cossey how play the game "hoop and stick" Wednesday August 3, 2016 at Colonial Williamsburg. This and other games like "trapball" were played in colonial America.

  • Nathan Morrow plays "trapball" August 3, 2016 at Colonial Williamsburg....

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    Nathan Morrow plays "trapball" August 3, 2016 at Colonial Williamsburg. The game involves the ball sitting on a small launcher. The player stomps on one end of the launcher and tries to hit the ball with a flat paddle while it's in the air.

  • Micaiah O'Mahony tries her hand at the pub game "shut...

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    Micaiah O'Mahony tries her hand at the pub game "shut the box" Wednesday August 3, 2016 at Colonial Williamsburg. The player tolls the dice and knocks down numbered tiles in the box based on the numbers rolled.

  • One of the traditional game played in colonial America is...

    Rob Ostermaier / Daily Press

    One of the traditional game played in colonial America is dominoes also knows as "bones" is demonstrated in Colonial Williamsburg Wednesday August 3, 2016.

  • Reenactor Kimberly Dynia teaches Leo Cossey how play the game...

    Rob Ostermaier / Daily Press

    Reenactor Kimberly Dynia teaches Leo Cossey how play the game "hoop and stick" Wednesday August 3, 2016 at Colonial Williamsburg. This and other games like "trapball" were played in colonial America.

  • The paddles are for a badminton like game called "battledore...

    Rob Ostermaier / Daily Press

    The paddles are for a badminton like game called "battledore and shuttlecock" that was played in colonial America in which players hit the shuttlecock back and fourth with the paddle called a battledore. The only difference being that there is no net between the players.

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