How to play Crokinole

Learn the rules to the game Crokinole quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules.

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RULES:
The object of the game is to be the first player to reach 100 or more points. Layout the board and place the pegs into their holes near the center. Each player takes 12 disks of the same color. Players position themselves at opposite quadrants. The youngest player goes first, then turns alternate. On your turn, you must shoot 1 disk with your finger. All disks must be shot from the outermost black edge of your quadrant. This is called the shooting line. You may shoot from anywhere on the shooting line so long as at least half of your disk is within your quadrant and some part it touches the black shooting line.

When your opponent has no disc is on the board and it is your shot, this is called a “free shot” and you are allowed to shoot towards the center of the board without restriction. Otherwise, it is called a “Regular shot”. When you have a regular shot, you must hit at least one opponent disc by contacting it directly with your shooting disc or by indirectly hitting another disc into it. If you fail to hit an opponent’s disc, then the disc that you shot with, along with every friendly disc that that disc hit, if any, are removed from the board and placed in the outer recessed ring, called the “gutter”.

Whenever a disc makes it into the center hole, without being removed to the gutter, then that disc is removed from the board and set aside and will be worth 20 points at the end of the game.

Once each player has shot all 12 of their discs, then the round ends and points are scored. Discs score points based on the point value for whichever ring they are in. If a disc overlaps another ring, then it scores for the lesser value. Discs in the gutter are worth 0. Calculate the totals for both players and the player with the most points wins the round and receives points equal to the difference between the two totals. The loser of the round receives 0 points. Record the scores and play another round, alternating who shoots first.

The first player to reach 100 or more points wins. You can play with teams of two by having teammates on opposite quadrants, each shooting 6 discs, with turn order going clockwise.

[paulusmelvintan]

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.

[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^

[mbburrill]

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

[TheOneCalledSloth]

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

[loyc]

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

[RighttothePointDIY]

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

[chormmanderxip]

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

[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.

[jaredkay]

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

[wrc]

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.

[CrystalClearWithBE]

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

[vdavid]

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.

[Wertycloud_YT]

Will there be a real life gunggi from HXH😕

[antarean]

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

[StoMoComedoPro]

Yoohoo, I love flicking games like that!

[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?

[Ben-zrqz]

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?

[hailsagan]

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