As indicated on the main page concerning Inuit Games, the Inuit version of Bilboquet is an adapted copy of a wide-spread European game. In the Inuit Language, the people of Repulse Bay (Canada) call this game Iyaga, while other Inuit groups may have another name for the game. For example, the drawing at the left (Government of Canada: Ministry of Indian & Northern Affairs, 1975, #QS-8050-000-BB-A1) of an Inuit woman playing the game is by Sorosilutoo and titled Ilukitatuk. This Inuit artist is from Cape Dorset on Baffin Island (Canada).

Inuit carvers occasionally make the game equipment from the point of a muskox horn, but more frequently from the humerus of a seal. Normally, a hole is drilled off center into one of the ends of the piece of "target" bone in order to attach a plaited piece of sinew cord. The other end of the cord is attached to a sliver of bone shaped into a long pin. By swinging the "target" bone in the air the player attempts to catch it on the point of the long pin. The following two photos illustrate two different types of this game.The left one illustrates a "target" bone that has a large single hole in which the pin can "spear" the "target". The one on the right illustrates a "target" that has multiple smaller holes - requiring the player to have more exacting eye-hand coordination.