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Crokinole! The game from the 1800's that requires a wooden circular board and a couple dozen wooden discs to play. You flick the discs towards a center circle, the closer you get the more points you score. Knocking an opponents discs out of the inner circle is fair play. Wikipedia says: quote:The earliest known crokinole board was made by craftsman Eckhardt Wettlaufer in 1876 in Perth County, Ontario, Canada. It is said Wettlaufer crafted the board as a fifth birthday present for his son Adam, which is now part of the collection at the Joseph Schneider Haus, a national historic site in Kitchener, Ontario, with a focus on Germanic folk art. Several other home-made boards dating from southwestern Ontario in the 1870s have been discovered since the 1990s. A board game similar to crokinole was patented on 20 April 1880 by Joshua K. Ingalls (US Patent No. 226,615) Here's a good description of the rules and the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JZrGKn66mI&t=3s Here's an awesome video of a competitive game with a goon announcer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzmSKZhmGvs I've got a shop, and a bit of carpentry knowledge. I'm thinking I might just build a board and give the game a try. What do you think fellow goons? Have you ever played Crokinole before? Is it something you would try?
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Nov 14, 2020 02:15
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I loved playing this with my great aunt, but I was terrible at it. That's my story.
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Nov 14, 2020 02:42
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I only know about this because in one year's Gen-Con thread somebody was like "hey is there any crokinole happening here?" and I first thought "hahah what even is that?" and then checked and discovered that not only WAS it happening, but there was a championship tournament taking place. Not sure whether that spoke more to crokinole's popularity or Gen-Con's endless selection of events though
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Nov 14, 2020 04:16
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Tabletop curling
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Nov 14, 2020 04:19
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it's a little too much for me. can't keep track of the disc
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Nov 14, 2020 04:23
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a goon announcer!? be still my heart!
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Nov 14, 2020 05:43
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I prefer atomic chess OPhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_chess posted:Atomic chess is a chess variant. Standard rules of chess apply, but all captures result in an "explosion" through which all surrounding white and black pieces other than pawns are removed from play. Some variations additionally remove rules concerning check such that the king may be able to move into or remain in check.
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Nov 14, 2020 05:46
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YouTube's random video recommendations has claimed another victim.
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Nov 14, 2020 06:07
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So this is a board game version of that Olympic sport that exists almost entirely as a punchline?
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Nov 14, 2020 06:27
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Yes, I've played this. It's fun. Still, it seems like that kind of thing where people could become obsessed with equipment rather than just the game itself. But that's just the impression of one evening playing.
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Nov 14, 2020 06:53
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ArbitraryC posted:So this is a board game version of that Olympic sport that exists almost entirely as a punchline? Yeah, but you don't have to wear thick socks.
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Nov 14, 2020 06:54
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Question for those of you who have played before: Does the board surface matter? I imagine you'd get a few practice flicks before the game begins, but it looks like there aren't any rules on the wooden surface other than "smooth". I'm wondering because if I build one I'm wondering if I want the surface smooth like glass, or just a table top (or something similar).
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Nov 14, 2020 15:46
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Crokinole? CROKINOLE
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Nov 14, 2020 15:53
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I just remembered we had a korona table when I were a lad. I wonder what happened to it. That crokinole looks somewhat similar but not at all similar really.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:21
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Just play ping pong instead so you can impress all the ladies (or dudes)
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Nov 14, 2020 17:38
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I kickstarted a crokinole board that arrived last month and I plan to play a bunch of my friends soon. Until then, my wife and I are getting real aggressive playing against each other.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:39
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crokinowns, I wish I had money for a board tbh
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Nov 14, 2020 18:00
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Misread title as "Cuckinole" and assumed there'd been another scandal about an American evangelist.
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Nov 14, 2020 18:42
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This is an old person’s game. The proper way to play is to snack on woothers originals or ribbon candy, maybe play some yatzhee after
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Nov 14, 2020 18:44
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Do it ironically posted:This is an old person’s game. The proper way to play is to snack on woothers originals or ribbon candy, maybe play some yatzhee after Sounds like a hoot to me  Oh wait, gently caress!
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Nov 14, 2020 18:49
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it's no tiddlywinks, that's for sure
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Nov 14, 2020 18:53
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Do it ironically posted:This is an old person’s game. The proper way to play is to snack on woothers originals or ribbon candy, maybe play some yatzhee after Yahtzee? Whoa, hepcat, slow down a bit.
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Nov 14, 2020 18:54
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Crokinole is great. Though I've forsaken it for Darts.
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Nov 14, 2020 19:15
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we played non alcoholic beer pong the other day. Just 12 red solos filled with water. We all made it out alive that time heh
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Nov 14, 2020 19:33
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 oh poo poo! it's the game on the other side of the carom board, not that anybody my age has ever played carom, either 3D Megadoodoo posted:I just remembered we had a korona table when I were a lad. except Jerry   
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Nov 14, 2020 21:17
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A bar near me had a board for this. Was a good time. Remember bars? 
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Nov 14, 2020 21:43
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Empty Sandwich posted:except Jerry I apologize.
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Nov 14, 2020 21:47
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I apologize. hell, I still own a board 
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Nov 14, 2020 21:55
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:YouTube's random video recommendations has claimed another victim. You're right. You're loving right.
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Nov 14, 2020 23:29
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Besides crokinole at my grandparents place they also had this wooden horse racing game none of us grandkids knew how to play, and a cribbage board, just like purely grandparent house poo poo, and those strawberry hard candies
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Nov 14, 2020 23:45
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spacetoaster posted:Question for those of you who have played before: Does the board surface matter? I imagine you'd get a few practice flicks before the game begins, but it looks like there aren't any rules on the wooden surface other than "smooth". I don't think there's anything formally set about the surface - not sure that glass would work but most of the surfaces I've seen are very smooth and lacquered wood. Mostly I think people muck around a bit to get a feel for the board before playing. Even if you didn't, the first few shots would inform. The really good players play tactically, to block and deflect. They can put the discs where they want. Realistically, most players aren't good and are just trying to land discs in the right direction.
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Nov 14, 2020 23:45
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I read the title as “Cornhole” not “Crokinole” and I have been very confused I’m a moron
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Nov 14, 2020 23:55
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Julius CSAR posted:I’m a moron We are posting in GBS.
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Nov 15, 2020 00:33
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Do it ironically posted:and a cribbage board cribbage loving owns too imo
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Nov 15, 2020 17:44
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GigaPeon posted:A bar near me had a board for this. Was a good time. bar I used to go to had one of the big shuffleboard tables with the sand and hockey-puck size metal discs. those loving rule to play when you're drunk. but it kinda sucked, I feel like they'd gotten tired of yelling at dumb kids to keep their beers off the table many years before so the finish was sticky and the sand was more than a bit gross.
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Nov 15, 2020 19:26
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I played something like this with my grandpa when I was a kid but it was called “Carom” or something like that.
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Nov 15, 2020 19:38
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I played this game a ton as a kid and had no idea it was local (like extremely local) to where I lived. I still love playing in bars, and in St Jacob's (a little north of Waterloo) theres a brewery called Block Three that had a couple crokinole boards in the tap room area that I played many a game at. Somehow crokinole has come up multiple times in my life while travelling and it's rare that people know what it is (or know it as carom/the other side of the carom board). My most recent crokinole story is when I was at a rally back in February, I met a girl from Gatineau (French city on the border of Ontario) and we hooked up, and somehow got on the topic of childhood board/card games later in the night, and I mentioned crokinole. She said she'd never heard of it/played it but when I began to explain she blurted out "oh, pichenotte (sp?)!" I guess there is a pretty similar carom derivative which is a similarly rural-Quebecois simple pastime, but she'd never played it. The next morning we set out looking through thrift shops for a crokinole board so I could show her this awesome game from my childhood but we never found one. I went home with my car later that day and then a few weeks later rona hit and I haven't seen her in person since. She never got to experience crokinole
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Nov 15, 2020 21:22
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Frank Frank posted:I played something like this with my grandpa when I was a kid but it was called “Carom” or something like that. it's on the back of every carom board I've ever seen (but I just learned the name of this game... we only ever played carom)
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Nov 15, 2020 21:35
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Empty Sandwich posted:
Both “teams” should have the same type of pieces, whether painted or other unpainted. I’ve usually only seen unpainted ones. I feel like this would affect the friction, which is also why I wouldn’t use a different surface. I hope I still have my board somewhere in the basement, it was like a hundred bucks when i bought it a decade ago and I imagine it’s even more expensive now
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Nov 15, 2020 21:58
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Crokinole is not a cheap game, only the finest plywoods and most delicate waxes can stand up to rigorous canadian standards
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