The Fun & Skills are normally based on four different formats, with teams made up to ensure a range of  experience.  The skills might involve bowling to a fixed roundel target; or scoring points for being able to roll your bowls to within two meters of the ditch; or even a game where the jack is thrown last, not first.  These involve real skills - but they are definitely fun. 

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The Canada Day event is a standard mixed triples, but there is an element of fancy dress, with everyone asked to wear some item of red clothing - so a bit of fancy dress to go with the fancy shots.  Meanwhile, Quaddie Day is based on teams of four, with three games to be played in the day.  First a straight four-a-side game; then each team breaks into two pairs, who each play another team; and finally one player in the team plays a singles game while the other three play a triples.  Three games, three formats - it's quite a day...