I love your video’s. We are from Michigan and our Canadian friends introduced us to this game. We love it so much my husband & I bought a board. Our grandson (15) will be visiting and we think he will love it too. I’m learning so much from you.
thanks for spreading love for the best game ever! I lived in Canada for a year and I fell in love with this game, now everytime I play it I remember my awesome time in Québec. More people should play Crockinole!
Question please? If I have a difficult shot to hit opponents button except hitting combo and possibly only hitting a few of my buttons and thereby losing them. Can I opt to purposely shoot no where near any buttons and basically forfeiting my turn. Is this legal?
Good question! This is known as troughing, and it is a legal shot. Its a formality to shoot, some players just place a disc in the gutter (if you want to stick to the rules as written, you need to actually shoot it) but you are allowed to just shoot it in the gutter 😁
Thanks for the info! I was wondering what was the best way to play 4 player singles because I figured new people would want to each choose their own color discs. I'll have to try 6 discs per person.
There’s no “official” way of playing 4-person singles, so however you’d like! I would think that 6 per player is ideal, but it’s simply a matter of how long you want games to be 😁
we just started playing and singles with 12 each was fine but we tried 1v1v1 with 12 buttons and it was definitely too much, so we will try with 8 and 6!
We usually start off with eight buttons each side whether singles or doubles...though I require this number be fluid even during a given round...I have required adjusting up to 17 buttons in a round in order to take the win.😎...some occasional push back from family that I don't really understand.
Great video! I am of the same mind: 8pp for 1v1, 6pp for 3- and 4-player, 12 per team for 2v2 and 2v1. Fewer discs means faster rounds; fight for each round, but a loss isn’t the sad end to a long round, just move on and play the next round. :)
Nice video. About to play my first 3-player game at home with friends - always played singles before. You confirmed what I was thinking entirely, so thanks!
There are no official rules as there aren't really any tournaments that I know of with 3 player singles. A couple of ways it can be done. One is that the lowest players score gets subtracted from the other 2 players and whatever remains is their score... race to 100. ie. player A gets 10 points, player B gets 15 and player C gets 60 points. What you would write down is Player A: 0. Player B: 5pts. Player C: 50pts. The other option is to say that the player who wins gets 6 points, second place gets 4 points, last place gets 2 points. The reason you don't award 3, 2 and 1 points is because if there is a tie you can't split the points without making half numbers. Or you create any scoring system that works for you.
