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Crokinole for the Carrom Player

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Crokinole for the Carrom Player

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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Political Board Games to Play on Presidents Day

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Political Board Games to Play on Presidents Day

Sometimes you wish that you could see, if given the chance, what you would be able to accomplish as the president of the United States or as a trusted adviser. These board games put you in the middle of the U.S. presidency, in the roles of previous U.S. presidents, presidential hopefuls, constitutional founding fathers, campaign managers or strategists, or even powerful corporations with political aspirations.

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Observations on the Board Game Renaissance

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Observations on the Board Game Renaissance

Many have commented and reported on the powerful and unexpected surge in popularity of board and tabletop games over the last several years, but is it truly that unexpected? Online forum BoardGameGeek includes pages of statistics generated by its users, and it shows a steady increase in how many games have been played over the past few years: in 2017, there were about 6.3 million recorded plays by users—in 2018, this number increased to nearly 7 million. The trend shows no signs of slowing Polygon recently reported statistics provided to them by Kickstarter, who revealed that the tabletop games category...

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A Brief History of Crokinole

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A Brief History of Crokinole

Crokinole! It's in the top 1% of all games on BoardGameGeek and has been around for 150 years. Where did this popular board game come from?

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