I live in Michigan, and so unsurprisingly have a good number of Canadian born friends. One of them has a Crokinole board that he sometimes brings with him to the local brewpub that he inherited...
I live in Michigan, and so unsurprisingly have a good number of Canadian born friends. One of them has a Crokinole board that he sometimes brings with him to the local brewpub that he inherited from his grandfather.
It's a superb way to spend an afternoon, having a beer, chatting, and sliding little discs around. Gets some curious questions from passers by and it's easy to make new friends if you can convince them to try a round. Which is generally pretty easy to do, since it's extremely simple to explain the rules and easy for anyone to try but difficult to master.
I'm in the market for a quality crokinole board for my wife. She's canadian and loves the game and I want to get her one for Christmas. Preferably made in Canada, does anyone have any recommendations?
I'm in the market for a quality crokinole board for my wife. She's canadian and loves the game and I want to get her one for Christmas. Preferably made in Canada, does anyone have any recommendations?
I happen to be acquainted with a crokinole company owner. Tracey Boards is the company. I've purchased several sets of buttons from them, and seen and played on a few of their boards and I think...
I happen to be acquainted with a crokinole company owner. Tracey Boards is the company. I've purchased several sets of buttons from them, and seen and played on a few of their boards and I think they are quite high quality. Also the Tracey family are all really nice people. I met them playing disc golf.
Hah, small world again. My BiL has a Tracey Boards one too, so I can vouch for their quality as well. I was literally coming to the comments to type out a recommendation for them, but you beat me...
Hah, small world again. My BiL has a Tracey Boards one too, so I can vouch for their quality as well. I was literally coming to the comments to type out a recommendation for them, but you beat me to it.
My cousin also has a vintage shuffleboard table that belonged to my Godfather, and it's a really fun game in a similar vein too. I actually prefer shuffleboard, personally, since the pucks have some serious weight to them and it's much closer to Curling than Crokinole is. But shuffleboard tables takes up a lot of room so I can understand why Crokinole is a lot more popular here these days.
That's awesome! I also cannot say this enough: they are such nice people. Jeremy is about my age and he has a number of early adult sons that he frequently is out with playing disc golf. They're...
That's awesome! I also cannot say this enough: they are such nice people. Jeremy is about my age and he has a number of early adult sons that he frequently is out with playing disc golf. They're the sort of people who pick up garbage is they go and leave the park cleaner than they started, give discs to kids just trying out the sport, help people change a tire in the parking lot, etc. I actually had a hard time purchasing buttons from them because he kept trying to give them to me for free. They also all make the boards in this general area of Southern Ontario; they aren't buying and reselling or anything like that.
I don't hang out at my sister/BiL/nephews all that often since they live 1hr away in Carlisle, but Crokinole gets played at pretty much every big party they have. My BIL loves his bar and tabletop...
I don't hang out at my sister/BiL/nephews all that often since they live 1hr away in Carlisle, but Crokinole gets played at pretty much every big party they have. My BIL loves his bar and tabletop sports games though, and they also have a Pool, Bubble Hockey, Foosball and Card/Poker table, as well as Cornhole and a proper cork Dart board, so Crokinole is not exclusively what everyone plays. And I have only played it a few times myself at this point, since I usually gravitate towards Pool, Darts, Foosball (all of which I'm really good at ;), or Bubble Hockey since it's my BiL and oldest nephew's favorite game and theirs is a legit one with an electronic scoreboard.
p.s. But we're moving to Waterdown soon though, only 10min away from them, so I will likely start hanging out there a bit more often and have more opportunities to play some games with them over the next few years. :P
Looks like a cool game. Reminds me of something called [Penny Football] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_football) which I play with my son from time to time, and that I used to play with...
Looks like a cool game.
Reminds me of something called [Penny Football] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_football) which I play with my son from time to time, and that I used to play with friends at school in the 1970s quite a bit.
Edit: and now I'm looking up Crockinole boards available in the UK.
Holy crap that video is absolutely insane. I've never seen anything close to a perfect round before. I'm glad I got past their "Canadians won't read this" title. I can confirm that crokinole is a...
Holy crap that video is absolutely insane. I've never seen anything close to a perfect round before. I'm glad I got past their "Canadians won't read this" title.
I can confirm that crokinole is a ton of fun. Whenever we break out our crokinole board, a good time is had by just about everyone involved, no matter the age. My grandfather - my dad's dad - was the family champ; I never beat him a single time in my life, and we played hundreds of bit thousands of games until his passing.
The one downside of crokinole is the cost of the board. A good one runs a few hundred dollars. However, a good one will also last a long time my grandfather's board is significantly older than me (45) and had been passed down to one of my aunt's and still gets played.
I have a board that my dad made for me, which we have had for 15 years or so, and I'll pass it on to someone eventually.
Something I've wondered about, do the boards need any maintenance over the years? I know wood can last forever if well maintained, but I was curious if all the disk sliding scratched them up and...
Something I've wondered about, do the boards need any maintenance over the years? I know wood can last forever if well maintained, but I was curious if all the disk sliding scratched them up and needed occasional buffing or anything.
I live in Michigan, and so unsurprisingly have a good number of Canadian born friends. One of them has a Crokinole board that he sometimes brings with him to the local brewpub that he inherited from his grandfather.
It's a superb way to spend an afternoon, having a beer, chatting, and sliding little discs around. Gets some curious questions from passers by and it's easy to make new friends if you can convince them to try a round. Which is generally pretty easy to do, since it's extremely simple to explain the rules and easy for anyone to try but difficult to master.
I'm in the market for a quality crokinole board for my wife. She's canadian and loves the game and I want to get her one for Christmas. Preferably made in Canada, does anyone have any recommendations?
I happen to be acquainted with a crokinole company owner. Tracey Boards is the company. I've purchased several sets of buttons from them, and seen and played on a few of their boards and I think they are quite high quality. Also the Tracey family are all really nice people. I met them playing disc golf.
Hah, small world again. My BiL has a Tracey Boards one too, so I can vouch for their quality as well. I was literally coming to the comments to type out a recommendation for them, but you beat me to it.
My cousin also has a vintage shuffleboard table that belonged to my Godfather, and it's a really fun game in a similar vein too. I actually prefer shuffleboard, personally, since the pucks have some serious weight to them and it's much closer to Curling than Crokinole is. But shuffleboard tables takes up a lot of room so I can understand why Crokinole is a lot more popular here these days.
That's awesome! I also cannot say this enough: they are such nice people. Jeremy is about my age and he has a number of early adult sons that he frequently is out with playing disc golf. They're the sort of people who pick up garbage is they go and leave the park cleaner than they started, give discs to kids just trying out the sport, help people change a tire in the parking lot, etc. I actually had a hard time purchasing buttons from them because he kept trying to give them to me for free. They also all make the boards in this general area of Southern Ontario; they aren't buying and reselling or anything like that.
Do you guys play much?
I don't hang out at my sister/BiL/nephews all that often since they live 1hr away in Carlisle, but Crokinole gets played at pretty much every big party they have. My BIL loves his bar and tabletop sports games though, and they also have a Pool, Bubble Hockey, Foosball and Card/Poker table, as well as Cornhole and a proper cork Dart board, so Crokinole is not exclusively what everyone plays. And I have only played it a few times myself at this point, since I usually gravitate towards Pool, Darts, Foosball (all of which I'm really good at ;), or Bubble Hockey since it's my BiL and oldest nephew's favorite game and theirs is a legit one with an electronic scoreboard.
p.s. But we're moving to Waterdown soon though, only 10min away from them, so I will likely start hanging out there a bit more often and have more opportunities to play some games with them over the next few years. :P
Looks like a cool game.
Reminds me of something called [Penny Football] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_football) which I play with my son from time to time, and that I used to play with friends at school in the 1970s quite a bit.
Edit: and now I'm looking up Crockinole boards available in the UK.
Holy crap that video is absolutely insane. I've never seen anything close to a perfect round before. I'm glad I got past their "Canadians won't read this" title.
I can confirm that crokinole is a ton of fun. Whenever we break out our crokinole board, a good time is had by just about everyone involved, no matter the age. My grandfather - my dad's dad - was the family champ; I never beat him a single time in my life, and we played hundreds of bit thousands of games until his passing.
The one downside of crokinole is the cost of the board. A good one runs a few hundred dollars. However, a good one will also last a long time my grandfather's board is significantly older than me (45) and had been passed down to one of my aunt's and still gets played.
I have a board that my dad made for me, which we have had for 15 years or so, and I'll pass it on to someone eventually.
Something I've wondered about, do the boards need any maintenance over the years? I know wood can last forever if well maintained, but I was curious if all the disk sliding scratched them up and needed occasional buffing or anything.