How to Play Nine Holes Marbles

Played as Miniature Golf

• 1

  Construct a miniature golf course for your marbles. Set up obstacles for the marble to go around out of items on hand such as toys, sticks, rocks and so forth.

• 2

  Make an indentation with your finger in the dirt to make a target for the marble to go into for each green you set up.

• 3

  Create 9 greens for your mini-golf course.

• 4

  Take turns trying to shoot the marble into the "hole."

• 5

  Move onto the next green when you get your marble into the hole.

• 6

  Win the game to be the first to complete all 9 courses.

Played with a Bridgeboard

• 7

  Purchase a bridgeboard in a marble's game pack or make your own out of a shoebox. Set the shoebox on its edge and cut 9 arches from the bottom of the box up about 2 inches or so from the floor and make them an equal distance apart. Give each arch a number value by writing these numbers over the arches in this order: 6, 2, 3, 1, 5, 8, 7, 9 and 4.

• 8

  Take turns shooting your marbles through the arches in the bridgeboard. Your marble must go through the arches in numerical order.

• 9

  Move on to the next arch (2) once you've succeeded in getting your marble through the number 1 arch. Keep going until you've completed all 9 arches.

• 10

  Get an extra turn once your marble goes through a correct arch.

• 11

  Win the game by being the first player to successfully go through all 9 arches (or holes).