Loved trying this out at UK Board Games expo. The board was excellent quality and the pieces just felt right, it was really obvious a lot of time had gone into getting the weights and glide of the pieces satisfyingly precise. Definitely recommend it! ... I'm just working on convincing my dad to go halves on a set now ;)
Excited to get my own board (just ordered.) Our Canadian made Crokinole board has been a mainstay with everyone for over a decade now, and I'm delighted to give this a go. I also added the solids/stripes discs and want to try a 9-ball variant, too. 😄
Hello. I am from Greece. Congratulations for your perfect game. It's amazing!!! Looking forward to find a way to have it in my house and enjoy many hours of playing. Well done my friends!!!
Love this video, George!! Surprised that I'm just finding it now. As the proud owner of not one, not two, but three Carooka boards, I must say that this is a most helpful introduction to a brilliantly conceived and extraordinarily well executed game design!!
As an avid Carrom player I can't wait to try this! My tip to folks out there is the best Carrom powder is not the branded stuff, it's acrylic powder used for painting nails. You can buy huge tubs of it for cheap and its much finer/more effective than the cheap crap that comes in Carrom powder shakers, a lot of which is toxic
@@TheSludgeMan Thanks so much for the quick response. Not sure if Naio is available in the U.S. but I guess anything advertised as 'clear acrylic powder' for nails would work?
Hello Niko, thank you for your message. The boards are waxed! It's the final part of the process after many rounds of fine sanding and varnishing. The use of powder is entirely optional, but as with Carrom- Carrooka utIlises rebound shots off the rail, so additional powder can make it more challenging and opens up more shot possibilities. There are lots of powder options, including vegetable starch (and we're just in the process of having a go with shuffleboard wax powder), the Teflon one we sell separately to the board is our preference performance wise, but we've hopefully left it up to everyone to decide for themselves.
Very nice game. A mini Snooker style... and the turning table. At 6:40-, why did you place the green on the black circle, should it not be placed back to the green spot again?
All the color pucks should all be 2 pts until all the reds are gone. That way the game is more tense at the end and getting the colored pucks in order is tense.
It's simulating a game of snooker, in which reds are worth 1 each, the yellow 2, the green 3, the brown 4, the blue 5, the pink 6, and the black 7. Of course, you can make up your own "house rules" if you want to.
When we started out we were using snooker penalty points but it made for so much imbalance that it wasn’t fun. The pool foul version really improved flow. No reason why you can’t try it both ways!
Sorry for my slow reply. If the striker (white) lands hard on the rail or behind the margin line around the pocket, you can move it out a little, it must still be touching the margin line. It just allows you to get a finger behind the striker.
Really like the look of this to put in our reception area for customers to play. How often do you need to powder the table? Does you finger hurt after a while from flicking?
That sounds like a fab idea! How much powder kind of depends on how much play. I would imagine once a day would be fine. We’ve not had any sore finger reports yet and it doesn’t hurt ours! But now we’re busily inventing little finger guards as an add-on😉😀
@@carrooka3607thank you for the quick reply. Our Building should be finished this winter so will be ordering one soon along with the pool add on. Can't wait to play.
@@carrooka3607 Thank you 😊. I cross my fingers for you Guys. This game deserves wider recognition. Suits many occasions and places like families, schools, clubs, regardless of age, gender and nationality. Table top Snooker/Pool version - evolutionary descendant of Carrom and Crokinole with brilliantly designed rotating infield. Congrats!
