Crokinole
Crokinole is a board and skill game for two to four players.
The aim of the game is to flip wooden disks across a round game board, placing your own disks as optimally as possible and at the same time pushing away the opposing disks. The game contains elements from similar games such as Carrom , Shuffleboard , Curling or the marble game .
The game is mainly common in North America . It is believed to have originated in the Canadian province of Ontario , where it is still mainly played today.
history
Crokinole has its roots in 17th century English shove ha'penny and the 19th century squails game. The oldest surviving Crokinole game board dates from 1876 and was made by Eckart Wettlaufer in Perth County, Canada as a present for his son's fifth birthday. The board can be viewed today at the Joseph Schneider House Museum in Kitchener, Ontario .
The German-speaking Mennonites in Canada knew the game under the name Knipsbrett . Around 1910, Crokinole game boards were first produced in Germany. In 1909, W. Burow from Berlin applied for a patent for the so-called ring board game . Instead of the discs that are common today, wooden rings were used.
A Crokinole World Championship took place for the first time in 1999, and since then it has been held annually in Wettlaufer's home town of Tavistock in the Canadian province of Ontario . In 2006 the documentary Crokinole was released , which accompanies some participants as they prepare for the 2004 World Cup.
The joinery Knels und Jeske from Celle has been producing game boards for the German market since 2002 . The game was briefly better known in Germany through its use in the television program Schlag den Raab on September 13, 2014.
Game components and game board
The game board is round and the playing surface has a diameter of 66 cm. At the edge there is also an approximately eleven centimeter wide ditch and a barrier to catch the playing discs.
In the middle is the center hole, around which eight small posts are attached as obstacles. This inner circle bounded by the posts is the 15-point circle. The 10-point circle, the 5-point circle and the start / stop line are marked outwards in concentric circles. The area between the 5-point circle and the outer starting line is also divided into four equally sized segments.
There are 24 wooden playing discs. The discs have a diameter of 32 mm. One side of the discs is convex for faster sliding, the other side is concave so that the movement is slowed down faster.
Game flow
If there are two players, each player receives twelve discs; if four people play, everyone starts with six discs. If there are three players, two players form a team, both partner players receive six discs each, the third player (declarer) receives twelve discs. In tournaments, in a two-person game, both players only receive eight discs, with four players receiving six discs per player. Neither the board nor the seating may be moved during the game. The chair must always be touched by at least one buttock.
The players take turns taking turns. The respective player places a game disc anywhere on his starting line. A shot is performed in which the game disc with the index or middle finger across the board geschnippst is. If the player hits the center hole, the disc is removed and the player receives 20 points. If opposing discs are already on the playing surface, one of them must be touched with your own disc. If this does not succeed, the shot is invalid and your own target and all other own targets that were touched by the target are removed. Discs that touch the out-of-bounds after the shot or that bounce off the boards back into the playing field are also placed in the ditch.
When each player has played their discs, the round is over and the game is settled. All discs that are still on the playing area after the end of the round are scored. There are 20 points for the discs from the center hole. The player receives 15, 10 or 5 points for discs in the inner, middle and outer circle. Discs that touch a circle are awarded the points of the lower sector. The difference in the scores of the parties is noted for the winner (s). The first party to reach a previously agreed number of points (e.g. 150 points) wins the game.
literature
- Wayne Kelly: The Crokinole Book , The Boston Mills Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0919783836
- Sam Enrico: A Beginners Guide to Crokinole , 2014.
Web links
- Official site for the Crokinole World Championship
- www.crokinole.de Information on the history and rules of the game and the sale of game boards (German)
- Mr. Crokinole Game Rules and Collection of Historical Game Boards
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alina Simone : Ever heard of Crokinole? Report on pri.org from June 6, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Page to the film Crokinole on imdb.com
- ↑ The modern father of Crokinole , article in the Böhme-Zeitung of October 8, 2014, p. 5
- ↑ Excerpt from Schlag den Raab on prosieben.de