page_title: Basque rural sports
section_title: Igel jokoa (frog game)
hierarchical_section_title: Basque rural sports / Other rural sports / Igel jokoa (frog game)
caption_attribution_description: English: Juego de la rana en el Museo de la Minería de Gallarta, Vizcaya, España.Español: Game of rana (frog) at Museum of Mining, in Gallarta, Biscay, Spain.
context_page_description: Basque rural sports, known as Deportes Rurales in Spanish or Herri Kirolak in Basque, is the term used for a number of sports competitions rooted in the traditional lifestyles of the Basque people. The term force basque is used in French.
  Virtually all regional Basque rural sports have their origin in the two main historical occupations, the or baserritarra and arrantzalea, with a larger percentage hailing from the rural background. The sociological changes in the Basque Country have led many of these becoming technically obsolete in the 19th and 20th century. Few continue to exist as rural or marine activities connected to everyday life and have become rare but many have managed to transform themselves into popular sports instead, some of which have become extremely popular.
  Winners receive a Basque beret as a trophy, hence the Basque word for "champion" - txapeldun, literally "one who has a beret".
  Betting, both by the competitors and the audience, is very common and popular at such sporting events in the north of Spain.
context_section_description: The frog game is a pub game played both in the Basque Country and outside. In the Basque Country, it is commonly played in Basque sagardotegiak (cider houses) and taverns. The aim of the game is to score as many points as possible by throwing ten metal discs at a chest.
  The chest can be placed at a range of distances away from the players, usually 8–15 paces. On top of the chest, there is an iron frog with an open mouth, a mill, and a bridge. Underneath are more empty compartments. In most variants, a player who manages to hit the frog's mouth is awarded 50 points; 25 points are awarded for getting the disc under the mill, 10 for the bridge, and 5 for any of the compartments below. Other scoring systems also exist.
  Some frog chests have obstacles built into the frog, mill, and bridge to make the game more difficult. Discs that have hit any mark are collected at the back of the chest via a set of metal tubes.
  In Spanish, this game is called juego de la rana in Spain and Chile, juego de sapo in Peru and Argentina, tiro al sapo in Bolivia, and just rana in Colombia. In French, it is referred to as jeu de la grenouille. In England, it is known as toad in the hole.
caption: The frog game
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