What are your favourite outdoor games?

Croquet and boules are good suggestions, giant Jenga is also good fun.

Petanque is the game, sometimes called boules in the UK, as it can be pretty much be played on any flattish surface and the rules are ridiculously simple. A cheap plastic set for children and adults or the real metal versions for teenagers and up.

Croquet is a faff to lay-out and you need a large and decent lawn so not very likely for most people . The rules are fiendish unless you play the superior croquet-golf which is much more participative and fun.

Frisbee golf is fun but a no-no in a domestic situation but possible perhaps on the moors or parks where there are very few people. As for the “holes” these can be improvised by using trees or other landmarks. In some ways very true to the original concept of golf.

There are a couple of games involved in throwing metal – horseshoes and a French game throwing metal disks to land on a wooden board which AFAIR is called Planchet.

There are commercial games like lawn darts but in fact if you have a dart board there is no reason why this could not be taken out of doors and used in the normal way but more amusingly perhaps laid flat on the ground so everyone is learning anew.

Top of the heap though would be petanque where the ideal small court is only 15 by say 3 metres, smaller for children. My petanque set is around 30 years old so it is not something lightweight and likely to break – you are getting something for life : )