One of few indoor water sports, water polo Is another ball based sport. The idea of the game is to navigate the ball throughout the ‘pitch’ by throwing it to various team members, and then throwing it into the opposing team’s net, which in turn gains a point.

Kind of like football, water polo features defenders, attackers and a goalkeeper. Whilst playing, a player cannot swim with the ball, but rather swim into position to receive the ball (nor can a player swim underwater with the ball). This game is often played in leisure centres as the direction of wind wont have an effect on the ball, or the players.

The aim of this sport is to beat the other team by a larger score margin. This can be accomplished by working in a team to score goals, which are technically points. 5 a side football is very similar to the sport football, however, there are several different rules. For example, as in the name, there are only five players compared to eleven, secondly, a player may not hit a ball over head height or score a goal in the ‘D’ of the goal. Since it is an indoor sport, the ball is more than likely to rebound of a wall due to a player’s direction of the ball.

Badminton is a racket sport. The sport involves either a one-on-one match or teams of two-v-two wherein the player has to hit a shuttlecock over a net into their fellow competitor’s side. To begin the game, a player must serve (which means hitting the shuttlecock to the counter-player’s side) and the server changes after each round.

If the shuttlecock is hit outside of the opposing player’s ‘W’ shaped area, then the serve or shot doesn’t gain a point as it is outside the playing area. Badminton rackets aren’t too different compared to tennis rackets, the difference being is that the badminton rackets are a lot slimmer, allowing lighter hits to the shuttlecock.

Indoor basketball, as in its name is an indoor sport which is based on a court with two opposing nets. The nets are held by a pole so that a player may ‘throw’ the ball from a certain area within the court into the net, by doing so, that earns the team points. Whilst in game, a player cannot run with the ball, unless they bounce it directly against the floor.

There are usually five players in basketball though the game is also played socially and can be played with the simple number of just two people at a time!

This is somewhat a different indoor game as it has no outdoor game that is similar to it. This game is also fairly competitive and is ‘ferociously-paced’. The aim of the game is to thrash a suash ball (bright orange ball usually) against a ‘wall-marked’ wall, whilst the opposing player carries out the same action.

If the ball rebounds onto the ground on the ‘non-game area’ then points aren’t counted. Squash rackets are similar to tennis rackets although the laces in the racket are a lot tougher as to avoid the laces detaching due to contact with the ball.

Mario Kart has been around since 1992, where Super Mario Kart made its debut on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly called the SNES).

The game is a spin-off of the popular Mario (and Luigi) series of video games. Mario kart traditionally incorporates a number of characters from both the ‘goodies’ and ‘baddies’, which you, as a player, can race with and against.

There have been 8 Mario Kart games since inception, with the latest being released in 2008 on the Nintendo Wii, which allows player to utilise the Wii’s motion tracking capabilities to steer the karts and do speed jumps.

Pogs was quite a fast-lived trend game from the 1990s that originated from a craze that involved collecting the drink caps (”milkcaps”) of a drink called ‘POG’, hence the name of Pogs. Pogs was also a collection game that consisted of collecting pogs, which are small circular discs, made of cardboard and with various colours, designs and texts displayed on them.

The gameplay basically involved two players stacking up a set amount of pogs upside down then taking it in turns to throw a ’slammer’ on the stack. Any pogs turned face up were then collected by the player who threw the slammer that turn.

The game ended when there were no pogs remaining and the winner was the player with the most pogs. If gamers were ‘playing for keeps’ then the players walked away with whatever pogs they had at the end of the game.

Minigolf, which also goes by the names of miniature golf, crazy golf and adventure golf, is based on the popular pastime of standard golf. Golf involves a variety of golf clubs and players hitting the balls over hundreds of yards, whereas minigolf only users a putter club.

In minigolf players have to get a golf ball into the hole in the least number of hits. In contrast to normal golf, crazy golf often has themed obstacles and contraptions that are built to thwart the players attempts to proceed in the course.

Minigolf is traditionally a less serious sport than standard golf and although most minigolf courses are based outside, there are also a number of indoor minigolf course too.

Jenga is a tower blocks game that involves players trying to remove rectangular cuboid blocks, usually made of wood, from a pre-built tower of said blocks.

The word ‘Jenga’ itself is derived from ‘kujenga’, which is a Swahili term meaning ‘to build’.

The objective of the game requires any players involved (there’s technically no limit on the maximum number of players) to remove a block on their turn without causing the main structure to collapse.

Jenga is a game that needs good judgement, a lot of patience and an extremely steady hand. Once quite a few blocks have been removed the game can become quite intense.

We’ve all probabyl heard of skittles, no not the multi-coloured sweets, I mean the bowling-like game where you have a number of skittles set up and you have to roll a ball to knock as many down as possible.

It is usually played with 9 wooden skittles, hence its other name ‘Nine Pins’. The ball was traditionally also made from wood. However, this is about table skittles, a game I know which can sometimes be found in traditional pubs around England.

In table skittles (also known as Devil Amongst the Tailors or bar skittles), the ball is attached to a rod that stands beside a set of 9 miniature skittles or pins. The player must swing the ball around the pole and, like in standard skittles, knock as many pins over as they can.