This game is like shuffleboard in the round. Players take turns flicking disks on a board, trying to score points by attaining central regions. The main stipulation being that contact with the other teams' pieces must be made in order for the disk to remain on the board afterward. Although the game uses quite a bit of skill to flick the disks, there's a very significant strategy element to the game. There are many different variants and rules, as this game is very old and has had many different incarnations over the years.
The game is of uncertain origin, however the first authenticated board was made by a Mennonite sign painter in Ontario in 1876, and the game has remained particularly popular among Canadian Mennonites. It was patented in 1880. It is also called Pichenotte.
The World Crokinole Championship (WCC) is held in Tavistock, Ontario, Canada each June. The current WCC Champion is Justin Slater of Toronto.
A pdf version of my CAD drawing for machining a Crokinole board. I used a CNC router. A .dxf file is available - simply GM me and I'll be happy to send it via email.
Crokinole is an amazing game and the boards are notoriously expensive, so why do all the rulebooks available look like they were made in a German bunker on a manual typewriter around 60 years ago? No offense to you euro gamers! Well Mayday Games is producing a high-quality, low-cost board and we're happy to share our updated graphics and high-quality instruction book book for all! Please share this with family and friends, just don't reproduce it for a profit.
These are clearly written rules, formatted between scoring holes. You can print it on a label, stick it to wood (we stick it to our disc storage cover), cover it with clear contact paper, and drill peg holes for scoring.
Crokinole Rules, rearranged from rules at www.crokinoleworld.com, resized to make an 8 page tiny booklet, that fits inside the wooden disc box available with Hilinski boards. (Oh, the 8 1, 6 3, etc are the page numbers. They are outside the cut lines. They are there just to tell you how to arrange the pages.)
Use these cards to hand out to people that have never seen the game and are curious. Print landscape and two per page then flip the page over and print the other side. That way you can cut down the middle so each side will have all the information.
Take them with your board down to the pub and hand them out when you are playing so you can take more time taking your shots instead of explaining this great game to people.
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