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Crokinole for the Carrom Player

Posted by Emily Ogle on Apr 08, 2019

We’ve explored why players of pool, curling, and shuffleboard would all love crokinole, for different and overlapping reasons. Now we’ll turn our sights to a closer relation of crokinole, carrom. Although carrom comes from South Asia and crokinole from Canada, carrom’s history suggests that it might be a precursor of crokinole.

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Tags: board games, canada, carrom, crokinole, curling, history, pool, shuffleboard

Crokinole for the Shuffleboard Player

Posted by Emily Ogle on Feb 20, 2019

In previous posts, we’ve discussed how a pool player and an aspiring curler might enjoy the 19^th-century Canadian table sport crokinole. As part of this series where we try to convince everyone to play crokinole, we thought we’d aim for shuffleboard players next.

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Crokinole for the (Aspiring) Curler

Posted by Emily Ogle on Feb 06, 2019

You probably have some idea of what curling is, whether you’ve played before or you witnessed the U.S. men’s team take home the gold last year at the Winter Olympics. One player throws a rock (or stone) down a long rectangular stretch of ice, while two other team members slide alongside the rock and furiously scrub at the ice with brooms. Then, the opposing team repeats the process, with teams alternating and roles rotating until all stones are delivered down the ice, toward circular targets at the opposite end. The teams try to get their stones as close to the center...

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Tags: board games, crokinole, curling, winter