Play and winning involves strategy, hand-eye coordination, quickness, and teamwork. The first team to get five points wins a game. Beginners typically use two target balls. Experienced players use four. Players can pick up steel balls anywhere on the table, but if they touch a target ball, it is a point.
Players launch steel balls and target balls down their chutes only by the force of gravity.
Goalies relaunch scored target balls in their goal area for continuous play. Our wait for a pool table was over an hour, and we had to lean over the Birkball table to get our names on the list. We asked what it was, and started playing to pass the time. Several games later and after giving up our pool table to keep playing Birkball, we are definitely hooked. Great game, guys.