re: #288 Killgore Trout

There were a lot of different version of the game. You cited the Maya version.
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I saw one of those fields when I visited Chichen Itza some years ago. The scoring “hoops” are incredibly high (probably about 8 feet up) I have NO clue how you’d get a ball in without using your hands or feet.