Pocket Bocce — FAQs

What is Pocket Bocce?
Pocket Bocce is a fully playable bocce game designed to be portable. It uses golf balls instead of traditional bocce balls, allowing the entire set to fit in a small bag you can actually bring with you.

Is this “real” bocce?
It follows the core mechanics of bocce—target ball, proximity scoring, turns, and strategy—just scaled for portability. Purists may debate. We encourage that debate.

Can’t I just use my own golf balls and not buy this?

Absolutely, but even discount golf balls will cost more and not come with a bag.

How many people can play?
Best with 2–4 players, but larger groups can rotate teams or play casually.

Where can I play?
Anywhere you can safely toss a ball: parks, beaches, backyards, hallways, campsites, offices (with permission), and places you probably shouldn’t but will anyway.

What comes in the set?
Nine golf balls and a compact mesh carry bag. That’s it. Nothing ornamental. Nothing fragile.

Is it good for kids?
Yes, with supervision. Golf balls are small and solid.

Does it damage surfaces?
Golf balls are durable and can mark very delicate surfaces. Use common sense. We trust you.

Why golf balls?
They’re durable, standardized, fly well, roll predictably, and already optimized for throwing objects across varied terrain. Also, they fit in bags.

Is this regulation size bocce?
No. That would defeat the entire point.

Is it waterproof?
The balls are. The bag is mesh. If it gets wet, it dries. Like adults do.

Can I lose a ball?
Yes. Bocce, like life, involves loss.

Can I buy replacement balls?
Yes. Or you can use any standard golf ball and keep playing.

Will this make me better at regular bocce?
Yes, at strategy. No, at lifting very heavy balls.

Can I play this indoors?
Yes. Whether you should depends on your furniture and relationships.

Is trash talk allowed?
Encouraged. Malice is not.

What if someone takes this too seriously?
Congratulations. You’ve met a bocce player.

Is Pocket Bocce about portability, or freedom?
Yes.

If you bring bocce everywhere, is every place a court?
We believe so.

Is the smallest game sometimes the biggest one?
Absolutely, and this applies well beyond bocce.

Why do games feel better when they’re unplanned?
Because joy resists scheduling.

Is winning the point more important than the conversation between throws?
No. And anyone who says otherwise is missing it.

Why did you make this?
Because bocce is fun, and we noticed most bocce sets never leave the garage.