Crokinole

Crokinole

Crokinole Game Board
Manufacturers	Mostly cottage industry manufacturers in Canada and USA
Designers	Eckhardt Wettlaufer - Ontario, Canada
Years active	Made since mid 1800s in Canada and USA and now gaining in popularity in many parts of the world
Players	2 or 4
Age range	5 years old and up
Skills	Fine motor skill, eye–hand coordination, intuitive understanding of physics & plane geometry

Crokinole (/ˈkroʊkɪnoʊl/ ^ⓘ KROH-ki-nohl) is a disk-flicking dexterity board game, possibly of Canadian origin, similar to the games of pitchnut, carrom, and pichenotte, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to land their discs in the higher-scoring regions of the board, particularly the recessed centre hole of 20 points, while also attempting to knock opposing discs off the board, and into the 'ditch'. In crokinole, the shooting is generally towards the centre of the board, unlike carroms and pitchnut, where the shooting is towards the four outer corner pockets, as in pool. Crokinole is also played using cue sticks, and there is a special category for cue stick participants at the World Crokinole Championships in Tavistock, Ontario, Canada.