An American wins the world championship of the Canadian game, crokinole.
An American wins the world championship of the Canadian game, crokinole.
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As kids we used to play this all the time at my grandma's farm. So much so that I'd bruise my middle finger nail from flicking the discs.
Loved that game a lot.
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Ya gotta cozy your finger right up against the disc. That's the secret.
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Shut Up and Sit Down have a great review of crokinole that will make you want to buy or make a board if you don't have one already.
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As advertised. I now want to make or buy one.
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I've never played crokinole, but I made a carrom board (mentioned in the article) years ago and it's a lot of fun. Mine was not from very good plywood, so it needed extra starch, but while messy, I could get (what the internet said was) an acceptable number of rebounds. We still have it, but its last use was to hold a partially completed Harry Potter jigsaw puzzle whose many dark areas stubbornly outlasted my daughter's interest in the franchise. Given ol' Jo's proclivities, that's just as well, though there's still a few wand and such floating around, a few of which I made on my lathe.
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My father used to wax our crokinole board to keep the players sliding evenly.
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Waxing the crokinole board must be something one could find on canadiansexacts .org
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My dad used Pledge dusting spray. Looks like it’s made from mineral oil, so I guess that’s what was doing the work.
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So that's what the otherside of my carrom board is for!
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