How to play Crokinole

[@paulusmelvintan4652]

Finally! Someone explains the rules of this game in a short, simple and fun way. Thank you.

[@Jaybirderino]

Ah crokinole, a classic! Shut up & Sit Down covered this game, but with one rules variation (probably regional variants?): Free Shots: During a free shot, you must get your disc into the 15-point circle or it is removed to the gutter.

[@kinosmead]

My understanding is that that rule is to stop a fairly common cheese tactic. If you could position your piece wherever you like on a free throw, you can position them directly behind one of the pegs closest to you. In practice it's nigh impossible to hit a peg in such a position from the opposite side of the board, so you can just bank 10 points.

[@butler-macdonald8351]

You're right about the free shot. It must end up touching the 15 line or completely within. It's called the "No Hide Rule" and the National Crokinole Association (NCA) rules allude to it in Section 3(a)(ii)

[@mayuzanevideos]

Thanks for making this! Was listening to Woolie on the Castle Super Beast podcast praise Crokinole and I wanted to understand the rules. This video wastes no time and summarizes everything well. Thanks again!

[@ReaperTheGodOfGames]

Could you do a how to play for Janggi (Korean Chess)? Love your vids btw. ^w^

[@TheOneCalledSloth]

It's a fun game, but a good board is expensive

[@Ackbano]

Why? It seems like a simple -ish design.

[@rhebucks_zh]

Niche

[@Ben-pf9wx]

I found a way to play this game with nothing but disks and a snack table

[@BryannaFretz-l1o]

Look for boards at value village! We just scored one for $10! We just had to buy the discs!

[@darkness445567]

Got this exact board, which is fine, for 60 bucks. About the same price as a lot of other board games. Not like you need a 500 dollar board to play.

[@mbburrill]

They just had the US Open in my hometown and I had never heard of it before. Thank you for sharing.

[@loyc12]

Pichenotte is similar but on a huge table instead. Played alot at my grandparents as a kid. Tough on the fingers

[@xavierreigneau41]

Sounds like you have some French-Canadian / Quebecois ancestry in you ;)

[@chormmanderxip6704]

Can u make a video about the Khmer chess, ouk chatrong, for ur next video

[@ReaperTheGodOfGames]

This seems like a pretty good game!

[@RighttothePointDIY]

Great video. Short into the point. Thanks for putting this together.

[@ExtraneouS_]

You forgot a rule: Once the round begins, your chair is not allowed to move. All shots must be taken with at least one buttcheck touching your chair.

[@JannPoo]

Now I'm imagining a referee in competitive tournaments rigorously checking the participants' butt cheeks.

[@wrc1210]

The way i learned to play there are a couple differences. 1) you only use 8 pucks for singles. 2) if the board is open and your shot is such that none of the puck ends up in the center ring, it goes in the gutter.

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

After caculating the totals for both players, what if there is a tie in a round?

[@WolfbloodJakeWilliams]

Neither player scores any points for that round.

[@MrPiragon]

fight each other with fists

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

​@@WolfbloodJakeWilliams okay. I see why you must subtract both players' scores. Remember, the winner of the round with higher points is the minuend while the loser with lower points is the subtrahend. The difference is what the winner of each round scores points after the round ends. If there is a tie, neither player gets points. Therefore, subtract both tying players' points to get 0.

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

I made a mistake. The difference between players is the winner of the round, not quotient since we're talking about subtraction, not division.

[@vdavid84]

Wow very quick, precise, and thorough! Nice! The only thing that wasn't clear to me is that the in-game "points" and the scored "points" are both called just "points". As a result, I'm not sure what happens in this example: - I play a round with a friend. They finish with 90 points; I finish with 50. They score the diff: 40 points. - We start a second round. At one point during the round, they have 60 points, I'm at 70 points. - At this point in time, they have a total of 40 (scored previously)+60 (current round)=100 points. Does this mean they won immediately? - If they did, then I think this video was right to call both types of points just "points" because then it's an apples+apples sum. But the video could be clearer about it, maybe with an example. - If they didn't (we must wait till the end of the round to sum up and diff our in-game points to score points), then calling both of these just "points" is confusing to me.

[@TripleSGames]

“Once each player has shot all 12 of their discs, then the round ends and points are scored.” - The key factor is when the points are scored.

[@vdavid84]

@@TripleSGames I see; thanks! But then it's confusing to also call the in-game points just "points", right? Apples and oranges, but both called "apples". If that's the official terminology of Crokinole then there's not much to do about it, but some extra clarification of this ambiguity would be helpful for newbies.

[@MrRyanroberson1]

The reason why the points from each round are subtracted (45 vs 55 -> the 55 player gains 10 points) is to keep the math easy, but the real mechanical feature here is that the game ends when one player has a 100 point lead on the other. It's very slightly different, but only so

[@vdavid84]

@@MrRyanroberson1 Thank you, that's a great explanation! :)

[@butler-macdonald8351]

As an alternative to racing to 100+ points on the board over the course of several games, you can play an individual game where both players alternate shooting all their discs and then count the score on the board. The player with the highest score gets "2 points", the player with the lowest score gets "0 Points", and if scores are tied on the board, each player gets "1 Point". Then you can play to a set number of points like 3 or 5 or 7. And there's less math too lol

[@Wertycloud77_YT]

Will there be a real life gunggi from HXH😕

[@jaredkay6970]

Came here to figure out how to say the name...thanks for the rules too!

[@antarean]

I played this for years out at my grandmother's but somehow never thought about how it was spelled.

[@VieneLea]

So if a disk lands on the outermost line, but it doesn't fall into the gutter, does it score for 5 or 0?

[@nif4345]

0 i think

[@EightThreeEight]

If a disc lands on the outermost line, it goes into the gutter. Also, if a disc hits the wall around the board and comes back onto the board, it goes into the gutter.

[@Ben-zr1qz]

Question- we’ve always played that you must hit into the 15pt circle on opening play or if your opponent doesn’t have anything on the board. Is that correct? Or can it just go anywhere?

[@osmoduh]

I have played with the same rule, if there are no opponent discs on the table, your disc must land in the 15 point circle or at least touch the line. If you are allowed to hide your discs, it is super hard for the opponent to get on the board and you can just farm 10 pointers

[@StoMoComedoPro]

Yoohoo, I love flicking games like that!

[@Archosphere]

Well Done!

[@hailsagan8886]

Fun fact,after playing this fir a weekend,your hair will automatically start growing into a mullet

[@wrc1210]

And you'll start pronouncing "about" like "aboot" and ending all your sentences with "eh"

[@marcponzio5330]

No offense, I'm very excited to see content put out about Crokinole, but this video has some errors and strange characterizations of the game. Just to point out a few, you don't have to start with your disc 50% on the shooting line, you don't often use the full 12 discs at least not in modern competitive play, most boards don't actually have removable pegs (only the very cheapest or oldest versions of the game), and players don't use the traditional scoring up to 100 points as often. Many of the things that I take issue with here are not outright wrong, they are simply stated as fact without any mention that they are not universal. Some things are certainly wrong though. It's like if I described "Hockey" as a game played using roller-blades on a dead end street and plastic hockey sticks. It's not wrong, some people play hockey that way, it's just not as accurate as it could be.

[@wrc1210]

The way I learned, you use all 12 pucks in doubles and 8 in singles. Also, a rule we use is that if the board is open and your puck ends up with no part of it touching the center ring, then it goes in the gutter. I also never heard of the 50% over the starting line thing.

[@bonecanoe86]

Looks like fun

[@rueme4228]

Why wasn’t this in that Nintendo board game collection from 2020?

[@DrakeFeatherwing]

I'm sure Nintendo would've loved to add some form of Crokinole, but 51 games is a lot as is...

[@EightThreeEight]

Because this is more of a dexterity game, which is much harder to emulate on a console.

[@holeofdarn]

I saw penguinz0’s two videos of him commentating over crokinole games not that long ago 😭

[@brandonlee979]

Perfect!

[@bevweb]

Remember: the most important rule of crokinole is to not mention the chin.

[@Mizai]

C R O K I N O L E

[@rescatandoalmasparacristo523]

Hi

[@damie9412]

Nice

[@Doorsplayer112]

Xxl chess how to play

[@vioslavia]

On your turn, warm up your industrial sized crane... En passant is not allowed. Because diesel isn't cheap

[@LeotheTiger1234]

So it scores like cornhole. Interesting.

[@Yellowredstone]

Looks fun, simple, but not $100+ of fun 💀

[@kenleongrmt]

Actually, it's worth it. Just try to find a reasonably sturdy board on sale.

[@Yellowredstone]

@@kenleongrmt And friends to play with

[@blissgem]

croaking hole, you say??

[@tanbui7163]

my mom want to buy this but its $390 but my Family has over 390 dollers 🤑🤑🤑

[@thebrazillianguytm2186]

This game looks like crap to play honestly

[@wrc1210]

It's actually a lot of fun. Esp with a group of friends and some beer!

[@vioslavia]

Nice