The carry bag allows for easy transportation; perfect to accompany a picnic in the park, a day at the beach, or pretty much anywhere you fancy!

Unlike competition boules, leisure boules are a "one size fits all" affair—they come in one weight and size. When a player loses 13 to 0, he is said to fanny (" il est fanny", he's fanny, or " il a fait fanny", he made fanny) and must kiss the bottom of a girl named Fanny. Boule is the French game that was probably originally played with cannonballs by soldiers and sailors whiling away their free time. An end is complete when both teams have played all of their boules, or when the jack is knocked out of play (goes "dead").

If he throws it outside these distances his team has the right to try twice again, otherwise the opposing team attempts to do the same. A circle drawn on the ground must be 35–50 cm (14–20 in) in diameter, while a plastic circle must have an inside diameter of 50 cm (20 in). The soft and squidgy nature of the Boules means that you can take the Boule game indoors when the weather lets you down without serious risk to furniture or people. Pétanque was featured at the 2015 All-Africa Games hosted by the Republic of the Congo, a former French colony.

Bocce, a rolling game, is played on a smooth, prepared court with markers and sideboards; the sideboards are a recognized part of the game and shots may be bounced off of the sideboards. The boules come as 4 pairs of 2, with each pair having its own distinct markings to allow players to identify their own boules. The jack, or target ball, is a small ball made of wood, traditionally boxwood or beechwood, 30 mm (1. Men's championships are held in even-numbered years, while Women's and Youth championships are held in odd-numbered years.When purchasing competition boules, a purchaser has a choice of a number of characteristics, including the size, weight, and hardness of the boules, as well as the striations (patterned grooves on the surface of the boules). On a terrain with boundaries marked with strings, a boule or jack must completely cross the boundary string before it is considered to be out-of-bounds and dead.

A Roman sepulchre (now in the Campana Collection in the Louvre) shows children playing this game, stooping down to measure the points. Otherwise neither team scores any points in the end (like an inning in baseball in which neither team scores any runs). Boule makes a great beach or backyard game and the fine quality boules used in this set, are designed to withstand even the most aggressive and competitive play. In contrast, pétanque, a throwing game, can be played on almost any relatively flat, unprepared outdoor surface.Most of our boules sets come packed in a canvas carry bag with a strong handle allowing them to be the ideal set for taking to the park or the beach to play with family and friends. La British Open is a major Pétanque tournament held in the North of England which attracts players from across the United Kingdom and Europe. A game can be played in an open area such as a public park, where the boundaries of the terrain are not marked, or more formally on a "marked terrain" where the terrain boundaries are marked (traditionally, by strings tightly strung between nails driven into the ground).

If the jack is dead at the finish of the end, then if one (and only one) team still has boules left to play, that team scores one point for each boule that it still has in hand. Shortly thereafter, Jean Blanc invented a process of manufacturing steel boules by stamping two steel blanks into hemispheres and then welding the two hemispheres together to create a boule. The game was extremely popular in France in the second half of the 19th century (the first official club was established in France in 1854).Before the mid-1800s, European boules games were played with solid wooden balls, usually made from boxwood root, a very hard wood.