Carrom Review & The World of Wooden Board Games!

0:00 The Crokinole Sequel HAS ARRIVED!
1:52 PitRush Review
4:35 Sling Review
6:59 Carrom Review
10:54 Tom Speaks Up
11:20 The Wooden Games Quinns Recommends

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[bangboom]

Can't remember the last time SU&SD threw such shade onto games. Amazing. I feel blessed to have lived so long.

[Skycroft]

As an Indian, Carrom is one of those games that is just all over the place. It's not something you buy, but something you inherit. Like Crokinole in Canada judging by all the comments on the Crokinole video lol.

I've never been very good at it, but my mother is very good and my aunt has won some championships so the skill is there in the blood it just bypassed me I guess.

[MonocleTopHats]

the glimpse of True Tom brought me such a great deal of joy. The Tom Quinns chemistry is electric

[Spearca]

"Divorced dad energy, " says Quinns, some time after giving up on shaving.

[TheRatedOniChannel]

I love those little 'out of script' moments you guys keep on the video, it makes the review as a whole feel less structured, more real in a way, the combination of Tom and Quinns is delightful.

[keios]

My old man loved Carrom, and being a carpenter by trade, made more than a few boards over the years. He also collected different rule sets for it. Apparently the variation he preferred (cue puck played from where it lies except in the event of a foul, queen can only be scored between 2 consecutive pots of your colour) was more popular in Kerala.

[stephenberg]

I discovered Carrom on a family trip to Sri Lanka and I have to agree, it's a fantastic game. The only disagreement I have is when you called it expensive. A really high-end board is definitely on the pricey side, but you can get a good-enough board quite affordably! When we got back to the US, we bought a smaller board for maybe $30 and had fun with it for years. I checked online today and found some decent-looking boards at a similar price point -- which should be unsurprising, since Carrom is quite a popular working-class game in its home region.

[senditkitecoaching]

I lived in Sri lanka for 7 years and played a ton of Carrom with the locals. The skill issue could be a problem if you mind getting smoked by Suji's granddad repeatedly, but it was always a nice social experience there to sit outside rhe roti shop, eat some nice food, play and chat

[sortius_]

When I was growing up in The Maldives, we used to play carrom all the time when we'd visit the islands. It was the most popular game there, and you'd regularly see a carrom board on a small table, with a pair of stools, next to shops, beside pools on the island resorts, wherever.

[vauxhallprefect]

I've whiled away many an afternoon through my childhood playing carrom at my grandparents house (on a lovely custom board they had made with pool table style netted pockets in the corners). It certainly has nostalgia on its side, but even after getting my own boards for both as an adult I've still enjoyed carrom a lot more than crokinole.

That said Pitch car has gotten a lot more play than either. And while the box is pretty big it's easier for storing or transporting too.

[htspencer]

I'm half Sri Lankan and over there people are bloody bonkers for Carrom! Everyone has their own board and talcum powder (and obscure rules for whether you can backshoot or not! 😂).

[somedude]

Nice to see Quinns rocking the "we roleplayed the end of the world with 4000 other people" beard for this review

[Pud]

It's easy to lap praise onto our new lad Tom (who's great obviously), but Quinns is just sensational, I've been a fan since his pathologic review and I think his talent for the written (and spoken!) Word is second to none. Great review guys 👍

[willtuck]

"Hey, should we send our game to SUSD?"
"You nuts? Did you *not* watch the Carrom video?"

[joelface]

I think Carrom is a GREAT game, but certainly less accessible than Crokinole or Klask. But it's a really great game that takes things way deeper and plays for much longer, so it's a more robust experience in some ways. Plus I highly recommend watching some Indian championship games on YouTube... they have absolutely INCREDIBLE plays. So the skill ceiling is very high.

[ChristopherZAR]

That ending just made me so happy that I'm now a backer and I can feel even a tiny bit like I contributed to this

[Codex_of_Wisdom]

Carrom has a nice nostalgia for me. My great grandparents had a board and we would play when I stayed over as a child. When you did the video on crokinole, I kept thinking about carrom.

[toddzerker]

I remember playing Carrom when I was young and because I love board games so much I was able to keep it. That board and others I've seen have a net in each corner (think fancy pool) for the discs to land into. They are much larger than the tiny holes in this board and easier to score, and make the game faster to play.

I remember liking it and would play it at a family reunion if asked, however I wouldn't play this version. Those tiny holes you're trying to hit the discs into is maddening. This was a hilarious video btw. Loved it!

[uutarn]

No-one stares into the middle distance better, than Tom.

[Solid_Fuel]

I was not aware you could play Carrom like this.
the 50 year old set we have at home has small cue sticks, so thats the way i have always played it. (not that i have played it much)
Also that board seems WAY more smooth and nice than the one we have!

great video as always tho ❤