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Ice stock sport, also known as Eisschiessen, is a winter sport that is similar to curling. Two teams of four players compete head-to-head, and the team with the most points after six innings wins the game, according to the Internal Federation of Ice Stock Sport. An inning consists of all eight players shooting one stock towards that target, also known as the “Daube.”

Essentially, a team scores by shooting the closest stock to the Daube. The team with the closest stock at the end of an inning is given three points. The team with the closest stock also gets two more points for every additional stock that landed closer to the Daube than the competitor’s closest stock.

Ice stock sport was a demonstration sport during the 1936 and 1964 Winter Olympics. Because it failed to significantly gain in popularity, it was never made into an official Olympic sport. However, it’s still popular in many European nations: Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic and Slovenia.