Crokinole

Setup

• Play black or white with 8 discs each (12 with the home rule). White discs have a dot in the centre.
• The board is a round playing surface surrounded by a ditch. The centre hole is worth 20, inside the circle around it 15, outside the eight pegs 10, and the outer circle 5.

How to play

• At the start of your turn a disc appears at the middle of your shooting line, the outermost black line on your side. Move the slider under the board to slide it along the line. On the board, put a finger on the disc and pull back: it flies the opposite way. A longer pull is stronger (the percentage is shown); release to shoot. Return your finger to the disc and release to cancel.
• You may place only on your shooting line, up to where the disc touches the quadrant lines at each end, and not overlapping another disc.
• If an opposing disc is on the board, your shot must hit one, directly or through one of your own discs. Otherwise the shot disc and every disc of yours it hit go to the ditch (a 20 on that shot does not count).
• If no opposing disc is on the board, the shot disc or a disc of yours it hit must stop touching or inside the 15 circle, or the same happens.
• Any disc that stops touching or beyond the shooting line is out, whatever its color, and goes to the ditch.
• Players alternate one disc at a time; nobody shoots twice in a row. When time runs out, that disc goes to the ditch and scores 0.

Winning

• When every disc has been shot, the round ends. Add the points of the discs left on the board and the 20s: the higher score takes 2 game points, a tie gives 1 each. A disc on a line takes the lower value.
• Read the round result and press Next. The next round starts when everyone confirms or after ten seconds, and the first player alternates.
• After four rounds, the higher game score wins. If tied, rounds continue until one side leads. With the home rule, each round's difference goes to the winner and the first to 100 wins.

House rules