Visit the American Petanque web site for files for making handouts.
Over the years many individuals and clubs have developed shortened or simplified versions of the rules. These summaries are frequently copied, modified, and re-posted on the web, so it is impossible to be sure of the original source of any of these documents. These files are in .pdf format unless otherwise specified.
- Simple rules of petanque from the Seattle Petanque Club
- Simplified rules of petanque by Stephen Ferg based on an original by the Epping Petanque Club (also in .odt format)
- Basic rules of petanque by Mike Pegg is 3 pages with big pictures.
If you google “petanque rules”, most of the links that are returned will be to rules summaries created by various clubs or equipment vendors.
How do you score points?
A mene (round, end) is finished when both teams have played all of their boules or the jack is dead. After the end of a mene, the teams agree on which team (if any) won the mene and how many points it scored. This activity is called the agreement of points.
If the jack is alive and one of the teams has the point, then the team that has the point wins the mene and scores as many points as it has boules that are closer to the jack than the opposing team’s closest boule.
You can find the full explanation at the link below. Petanque Libre explains the agreement of points better than the official (FIPJP) rules do.
https://petanquelibre.wordpress.com/rules-2021-01-01-en-html/#_Toc60228317
If you’re on Facebook, a good place to ask questions about petanque is
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PETANQUE.QA/