Interesting variations of the conventional Ring Toss equipment described in an earlier section can be improvised from an amazing diversity of material when the occasion demands. While the simple expedient of increasing the distance from player to peg will of course demand greater skill, a judicious clustering of a number of pegs around a central "bonus" peg will add an interesting factor to the test. Some of the simplest of these combinations have kept whole groups of adults in concentrated competition for hours.

Rings. Rubber jar sealers

Wooden curtain rings Embroidery hoops

Paper plates with their centers cut out Carboard rings, squares, or triangles Rope taped together at the ends Rubber hose joined over a whittled plug Wire hoops bent from coat hangers Pegs. Bridge table upside down Upended chair

Opened, straight-handled parasol or umbrella Upended cane in a tall wastebasket Clothespins in the rim of a wastebasket or pot Soft drink or other narrow-necked bottles Indian club Upended funnel Cream or milk bottles

Spools, usually nailed or screwed to scrap wood

Megaphone or cardboard cone

Flower-pot upside down

Shelf bracket or large angle iron

Nail(s) on a scrap of wood

By hanging the target on a wall, in an open doorway, or leaning it against a chair back, a different type of game emerges requiring new skill. Small L-shaped screw-hooks on a piece of plywood make an excellent target; headless finishing nails driven in at an angle will do as well. When more than one peg forms the target, different values may be assigned in proportion to accessibility, with the protected center peg, hook, or nail awarded the greatest number of points, as in other tossing and throwing games.