Crokinole

In keeping with holiday traditions, we brought out our crokinole board. It is a checkers flicking game, played on a special wooden board. Simple to learn, it provides hours of fun for everyone in the family, from my eight year old niece to my 85+ aunt. While looking around the web, I found a couple of sites worth looking at.

The first, as always, is the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crokinole

The second is the official site of Crokinole from Mr. Crokinole himself, Wayne Kelly:

http://www.crokinole.com/index.asp

Third is a pretty affordable version of the game available from Amazon. Most copies of the board are $100 and up. These are meant to be heirlooms, handed down to generations. The version at Amazon is quite a bit less.

http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Hatter-Blue-Multi-Crokinole/dp/B00001ZUKL/sr=8-4/qid=1163510929/ref=sr_1_4/002-4717702-8097654?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games

As finally, would you believe a movie about the sport of kings? It is an actual documentary of the World Crokinole Championships. "The one flick you must see". You have to understand the game to get the joke. Somebody better get this for me for Christmas!

http://www.crokinolemovie.com/