page_title: Pétanque
section_title: Scoring
hierarchical_section_title: Pétanque / Playing the game / Scoring
caption_attribution_description: English: Petanque scoring example: two points scored
context_page_description: Pétanque is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports, along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls and crown green bowling. In all of these sports, players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball.
  In pétanque the objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than your opponent after all boules have been thrown. This is achieved by throwing or rolling boules closer to the small target ball, called a cochonnet, or by hitting the opponents' boules away from the target, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground.
  The game is normally and best played on hard dirt or gravel. It can be played in public areas in parks, or in dedicated facilities called boulodromes.
  The current form of the game originated in 1907 or 1910 in La Ciotat, in Provence, France. The French name pétanque comes from petanca in the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language, deriving from the expression pès tancats, meaning 'feet fixed' or 'feet planted'.
context_section_description: 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 the end finishes in the usual way—with the jack still alive and one team with the closest boule—then the team with the closest boule wins the end and scores one point for each of its boules that is closer to the jack than other team's closest boule.
  If the jack is alive but there is an "equidistant boules" situation at the end of the mène, then neither team scores any points.  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. Otherwise neither team scores any points in the end (like an inning in baseball in which neither team scores any runs).
caption: Team Red has two boules closer than Team Blue's closest boule.  Red scores two points. Blue scores nothing.
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