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New board, who di....can't do it.
#Crokinole #boardgames

Red gutter Tracey Crokinole board with tan playing area and red and green discs laying about

Now I want to play crokinole XD
https://pudding.cool/2024/10/crokinole/
#crokinole

Finally got my #crokinole board up on the wall 😁 The wall mounting bracket is such a good idea. Looks good, I think!

A crokinole board (traditional wooden Canadian disk flicking game) hangs in the middle of a wall in a home.

A little gift to myself arrived this past weekend, a #Crokinole game board. I played it at #GenCon about 20 years ago and fell in love with it. #MayDayGames periodically has a kickstarter for their Crokinole boards. They seriously undersell their workmanship for the price. It's beautiful and I was not able to detect any imperfections for the budget price.

It's in a category of Canadian games that you can play with a beer in one hand, and play with the other. You know, like Curling!

#BoardGames

A Crokinole game board. It is approximately 1 meter wide, round, made of smooth wood. There is a circle of 9 pegs about 9 inches from a center hole. One-inch wooden discs are flicked to try to reach the center hole. Outside of the middle ring of pegs, there are two other cocentric circles: One near the edge and one between the edge and the middle circle, for scoring. Two of the discs one painted dark, and the other showing wood grain are in the center ring near the hole. A bouquet of pink roses and other white flowers are in the upper-right corner of the picture.

You Can’t Beat Jennie at Crokinole

Yes, a song about Crokinole — Canadian cottage staple and dexterity gamer darling. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qyH7o1FYkcU #Crokinole #Boardgames

For the final month of 2024… every board game was played in the company of family and friends! A fitting way to end the year, and a lot of new experiences too, both for myself and my friends. I’m particularly that I was able to introduce #RedCathedral to them and to finally get #Crokinole off my wall and onto the table.

#boardgames #bgstats

BG Stats 4 x 4.
Play count:
4: Wingspan;
3: Crokinole;
2: The Red Cathedral;
2: Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure;
2: Can't Stop;
1: Age of Innovation;
1: Arcs;
1: Brass: Birmingham;
1: Dune: Imperium;
1: Plunder: A Pirate's Life;
1: Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala;
1: Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest;
1: Wits & Wagers: It's Vegas, Baby!;
1: Rolling Realms.

Crokinole night!
#crokinole #boardgames

A white wooden biscuit on a dark crokinole board. Black and white biscuits scattered about.

Treated myself to a #crokinole board! With my birthday and Christmas both coming up, I thought ‘why not’; I've wanted one ever since watching the Shut Up & Sit Down review. Had to order an import directly from Tracey Boards in Canada due to a lack of stock in the UK (hopefully the import fees won't be too exorbitant.) Cannot wait to play on it and share a few pictures! 😁

Played a couple games of #Crokinole at Old Dog Brewery while waiting for Pub Quiz Night on 2024-11-14 #bgstats

This picture was taken by request, as the folks responsible wanted to gloat #crokinole

Today I came again for the #PAX #Crokinole tourney and won twice! Advanced to round of 8 before losing to a nice gentleman with great flickering skills. Can’t believe I spent a great portion of my time at PAX on crokinole but that was absolutely worth it :awesome_rotate:

Great fun playing some crokinole with new players!

#crokinole #boardgame #tabletop

A table of people being tutorialized on how to play the tabletop game crokinole

Love me some top-tier crokinole skill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG3LySJXzKY

#crokinole #boardgames #tabletop

A few weeks ago, we attended a Northfield Swedish Club fika event, and I played a little game called Couronne. It is similar to billiards, but instead of using a large pool table and pool balls, it uses a little wooden board that sits on a table, and wooden disks. You use a cue to hit your shooter at your color disks to try to get them in the holes at the four corners.

Although I played quite poorly, I thought it was pretty fun and that it might be great to have a stowable and portable game of skill that we could add to our home’s repertoire. Sam and I have the intention to play games once a week, but often end up being too tired to actually want to play a game that requires a lot of setup, thinking, and strategy so we usually just end up watching TV instead. I thought it would be perfect to have a fun game that didn’t require a lot of thinking that we could play, and that this would help us connect with each other more than putting on a TV show would.

The Brio board that was at the event seems to be discontinued, but there are some other companies that still sell Couronne sets. But in my digging, I discovered that there are a number of games that are all pretty similar:

Carrom is from India and you flick the disks instead of hitting them with a cue. This seems to be the origin of all of the disk-flicking (pichenotte) games.
Novuss (or Korona/Koroona) is from Estonia and Latvia. As a cue-based game, it looks similar to Couronne, except it is larger and the number and arrangement of the disks is different.
Crokinole is from Canada, and seems to have a passionate following. In Crokinole the players take turns flicking buttons toward the center of a circular board. It feels pretty similar to shuffleboard or curling.

I had initially decided to get a Novuss board, particularly due to its connection with Latvia. Unfortunately I couldn’t find anywhere to actually buy one. But after finding out that Crokinole has a really good rating on BoardGameGeek compared to other disk-flicking games (47th overall, and 5th for family games), I decided to order a Crokinole board instead.

My Tracey Board was delivered about a week ago and I’ve had a lot of fun playing with friends and family. The board itself seems to be built very well and I think it will provide us with many hours of good times.

If you want to learn more about Crokinole, check out this fun review:

https://joelencioni.com/journal/crokinole/

#boardGames #Canada #carrom #crokinole #Estonia #fika #games #India #korona #Latvia #novuss #Sweden

Event Spotlight: It's not Tabletop Scotland without Crokinole, according to Terry Brown anyway. Fortunately, we agree!
The Grand Prix of Scotland returns, and Learn to Play too.
Find out more on our website: https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/events/bcm-schedule/
#TTS2024 #Crokinole #ThereWillBeCrokinole