In Canada, a fry-stained version of Full House: The Board Game might qualify as a pub game, but across the pond traditional – and just plain bizarre (see "dwyle flunking") – pub pastimes still abound.
 
1. Toad in the Hole – Heavy coins are lobbed at a hole in a metal-topped table. A dreadful noise ensues should you miss, in which case pint glasses, chairs, slabs of fried fish, etc. may be lobbed at your head by nearby drinkers.
 
2. Shove Halfpenny – An early precursor to today's clubbing scene: drunken men use their bare hands to try to coax targets into beds.   In this case, though, the targets are coins and the beds are depressions on a wooden or slate board.
 
3. Dwyle Flunking – Musical chairs meets dodgeball meets a surrealist French film: a "dwyle flunker" flings a beer-soaked cloth or mop head from the end of a stick at a circle of hand-holding dancers who are frantically spinning around to accordion music. Points are awarded for hitting a face, body or limb.
 
4. Darts – A popular sport in which bloated beer guts, male hand bling and dangling cigarettes suddenly spell glamour. And one of the top darts celebs, John Part, is Canadian.
 
5. Quoits – Toss metal rings at pegs in the ground (horseshoes without the added bonus of luck).
 
6. Shut the Box – Not everyone was made to be a hotel tycoon, prison inmate or train conductor: if the very first stage of Monopoly got your pulse racing then this game of dice in a box will be up your no-frills alley.
 
7. Skittles and Daddlums – Variations upon the activity we'd refer to as bowling, the pins ranging from miniature (daddlums) to cumbersome and knocked down with a 12-pound wooden "cheese"   (Old English skittles).
 
8. Ringing the Bull – A ring from a bull's septum is suspended on a rope from the ceiling. The player swings it across the room and attempts to hook it on a wall-mounted bull's horn. To raise the stakes, try whipping the ring at a real live bull (or a person who resembles one) and see what happens.
 
9. Bar Billiards – A low-impact version of pool designed to help the player convert all beer calories directly to fat: the athlete stands at one end of a compact table and tries to sink balls in a series of holes.
 
10. Round Dodging – Okay, this isn't an official game but it is a daring test of skill and cunning to see how many consecutive times you can have a round of drinks bought for you without reciprocating.