The most outer scoring filed is divided into four quadrants. Before the shot, the shooting disc always has to be lying on one of its flat side on the player’s shooting line (disc can touch quadrant lines from either side). You may look up the required rules when the event occurs during the game. Gameplay . Crokinole is called knipsbrat ('flick-board') (and occasionally knipsdesh (flick-table)) in the Plautdietsch spoken by Russian Mennonites. Of course discs touching the shooting line after the last shot must also be counted 0 points. Spread a pinch of gliss powder in the ditch in front of you. There must be no impurity in the powder. When starting a new round two rules may be applied to choose starting player: A) The next player sitting clockwise from the previous starting player starts the next round. Croquignole was also a synonym of pichenotte, a word that gave its name to the different but related games of pichenotte and pitchnut. Get it as soon as Wed, Sep 2. Note: The box seen on the board in the Swampfox picture is designed to store the discs; it would not be on the board during gameplay. The NCA Tour includes both doubles and singles events.
Here is a crokinole board that I made for my brother's wedding. The value of the discs in the 20-bowl will be added to the final/total score at the end of the round. ", "World's best crokinole players in Tavistock for saturday's World Championship", Our Canada Magazine Article about Crokinole, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crokinole&oldid=970386165, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 31 July 2020, at 00:28. Place a 20-bowl (e.g. The discs are roughly checker-sized, slightly smaller in diameter than the board's central hole, and may have convex faces to reduce sliding friction. When playing without this rule, a player may generally make any shot desired, and as long as a disc remains completely inside the outer line of the playfield, it remains on the board. The goal is to be the first team to reach 100 points. Crokinole (/ ˈ k r oʊ k ɪ n oʊ l / KROH-ki-nohl) is a dexterity board game similar in various ways to pitchnut, carrom, marbles, shove ha'penny, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. If there are any enemy discs on the board, a player must make contact, directly or indirectly, with an enemy disc during the shot. ricocheting from the rail) is considered to be out of play and must be removed after its movement stops. 00. In the following, the board can not be moved during the game. The shooter places one of his discs on the starting line, with at least 50 percent of the disc within his quadrant. 00. Due to microscopic roughness of the discs and the playing surface, the slide of the discs can be uneven. 90. The top four in the playoffs advance to a final round robin to play each other, and the top two compete in the finals. Any discs that were hit by the re-entering disc must stay in their new position (20-disc is counted as well). The earliest known crokinole board was made by craftsman Eckhardt Wettlaufer in 1876 in Perth County, Ontario, Canada. on the table next to the board. While the majority of NCA events are based in Ontario, Canada, the NCA has held sanctioned events in the Canadian provinces of PEI and BC, as well as in New York State.
B) The losing player/team decides whether he/she wants to start the new round or not. Also used biscuit joints for the octagon.
The result of a round should be added to the scores of the previous rounds. Other rules are applied similarly. The following rules are for special cases occuring more rarely. In this case placing the disc in ‘B’ or ‘C’ positions in image 2 is invalid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_cB2tyD36g. One team’s 12 discs are divided in half between teammates, so every player will start playing with 6 discs. The outer edge of the board is raised slightly to keep errant shots from flying out, with a gutter between the playing surface and the edge to collect discarded pieces. The world premiere occurred at the Princess Cinema in Waterloo, Ontario, in early 2006. [4] Several other home-made boards dating from southwestern Ontario in the 1870s have been discovered since the 1990s. The use of any lubricating powder in crokinole is controversial, with some purists reviling the practice. There are three scoring areas. The game was viewed as a rather innocuous pastime – unlike the perception that diversions such as card playing or dancing were considered "works of the Devil" as held by many 19th-century Protestant groups.
$17.00 $ 17. Commonly Crokinole is played by 2 players.
The tournament has seen registration from every Canadian province, several American states, Germany, Australia, Spain and the UK. The usage of the following rules are optional.