Boccia is played either indoors or outside and is similar to the Italian game of lawn bowling. The object of the game is similar: A white target ball is thrown onto the court by one of the players, and opponents take turns attempting to get their game balls as close to the target ball as possible. Once all game balls have been thrown, points are awarded by the referee, according to the placement of game balls nearest the target. Individual boccia ball is played with six balls per player for six rounds.