Contents 2 Clamps. 2 Wooden Poles. 1 Ball. 7 Wood Skittles Indoor game that lends itself to skittle games where you swing round a ball on a string, trying to knock down the skittles as it sweeps by. In England this type of game was always known as Bar Skittles. Skittle-Tennis has a ball on a string but the string is longer and must be hit with a bat rather than out of the hand. The skittles are rated for different point values. Obviously, you should try to knock over the higher scoring ones. The first player to score 100 points is the winner. From the rules "An interesting game that can produce an excellent method of training the eye for both Table Tennis and Tennis. There are some game variants in the rules.