QuoitsQuoits was played during the American Revolutionary War by both British and Continental soldiers to pass the time. It has been said that the game of horseshoes was derived from quoits because some people could not afford to have quoits made, so they used what was similarly available: old horseshoes! Miniature versions of indoor quoits were played near the Welsh English border for at least a century. It seems that the game was invented toward the end