Hey there.

So one of our Christmas gifts from Santa this year was a family crokinole board.

“What the hell and a hootenanny is a crokinole?”
I’m so glad you asked.
It’s a Canadian disc game that’s like table shuffleboard meets darts. Sorta.

In essence, 2 or 4 players gather round the game board and flick little near frictionless discs in an attempt to sink them into the center hole.
After each player flicks all of their discs, scoring is 5 points for a disc in the outside edge, 10 for middle ones, 15 for the one inside the little peg circle, and 20 for a bullseye. There are a couple more rules but that’s the essence of it.

And it is ridiculously fun.

Not only that, Santa and I had a discussion about how crokinole might also be a fantastic small motor skills exercise for Daphne. One hidden within a simple game that her mother and I could play with her…which would, in turn, hopefully keep her from getting bored with it.

We’ve already played a few times since Christmas (to much success) and we’ve even added a “crokinole” button to her talker. Which I’m quite certain will confound her teachers when she requests it.

I’ll also admit that Jen and I have played too, usually after a couple adult beverages, and it’s prompted no shortage of braggadocio about how amazing we are at crokinole (despite all empirical evidence suggesting otherwise) and/or how poorly the other one is playing.

We’re super happy with it, and it came from some very fine people over at Tracey Boards in Ontario. (Please recall that I am not selling/influencing anything on this site. We just had a great experience getting our board from them and so I’m passing that along.)

See you tomorrow.

j.s.