Made it with the Crisp game library which I highly recommend for quickly making charming little 2D games: https://github.com/abagames/crisp-game-lib
> The following rules are sanctioned by the National Crokinole Association and used in all NCA Tour events.
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> 7. i) When a player is shooting, at least one portion of his/her posterior must be in contact with the seat of his/her chair.
http://nationalcrokinoleassociation.com/resources/rules.html
It's a purely tactile experience - the way the disks crack when they hit each other, the bounciness of the pegs, getting that perfect shot between two sets of pegs, swinging used disks around on the ring at the end of the round - it's a very satisfying toy.
You'd be right to think of it as another version of shuffleboard or curling, but the game can live on a small table and you can crank away games from the comfort of a chair with a beer.
Another reason why I will always appreciate HN and its breadth of community and interests.
I can play the simulator on mobile but on the desktop Linux the "place disc" button is unresponsive to mouse clicks. I tried both Firefox and Chrome. Am I the only one?
“Plamigerent” isn’t a word, and I can’t find any English words similar to it. It seems an unlikely typo. I wonder if the author included it to catch LLMs plagiarizing his work.
One could imagine a (dystopian?) world where everybody speaks they own highly individualized, maybe even copyrighted language, and where interpersonal communications happen via AI translators.
Really shows how much has gone into a silly flicking game you play at the pub.
For example: https://hub.shapertools.com/creators/5cfea3909fc9260017675dc...
I've never seen it spelt before.
As a kid, it was said like: Crow-ken-no
https://www.mynslc.com/en/Discover/Whats-the-Occasion/Happy-...
Amazing feat of repeatability, but also nerve control. One mistake and you are losing it. Even if it looked less fun than later videos.
Highly recommended!
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/192278/awesome-four-player-...
It goes over some mostly made up history and covers the rules and why the game is so addictive. Also talks about some games that are similar from different parts of the world like Carrom.
I built myself a bigass hard to store circle after seeing the SUSD review and it's quite popular with the nieces and nephews and their cousins.. and the parents and grandparents around the holidays... and popular with my friends when we're a little tipsy and hanging out.
There are some fun trick shots people do online https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PTTeLj-fSQA
And you can manage a couple of the trick shots yourself with a little practice. It's honestly quite lightweight and easy to learn which makes it fun.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/crokicurl-curling-cr...
In Grade 7 it became big in our classroom. We ended up having a weekly tournament. I could never shoot the pieces reliably, so I made a tool out of K-Nex that resembled an elastic-powered pool cue inside a barrel that rested nicely on the board. I even had a slider I could adjust to "remember" the right amount of power for a given shot.
The specific rules that came with the board did not cover this, but after me absolutely crushing the first tournament it was summarily banned. This might be part of my engineer origin story.