Devil among the tailors

[1] The game involves nine small skittles arranged in a 3 × 3 square, usually on a raised plinth within a shallow open-topped wooden tray, about 2 x 2½ feet in size, sitting on a table-top.

The game can be seen in a pub setting in the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night at the 1 hour 4 minute mark.

It is also featured in the Malcolm in the Middle episode "Therapy," in which Dewey exhibits a surprising talent for the game.

[1][2] Fairburn's edition of the play is entitled The Devil among the Tailors, it includes an account of the event.

[3] The event also inspired a popular Scottish country dance, The Deil Amang the Tailors, published in 1801.