ABSTRACT
Also known as lawn billiards, troco appears to have become popular as a country-house game in the nineteenth century. As the name implies, it was similar to table billiards in that players had to use a wooden cue to propel a ball through an iron ring in the middle of a circle. An opponent would attempt to prevent that from happening by using the ball to cannon off the other. Points were awarded for cannons, for getting the ball through the ring and, the hardest skill to master, cannoning the ball through the ring off an opponent’s ball.
