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Crokinole

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legitster ◴[] No.41871722[source]
Crokinole exploded in the board game community a few years ago. I got a lovely hand made board from Canada.

It's a purely tactile experience - the way the disks crack when they hit each other, the bounciness of the pegs, getting that perfect shot between two sets of pegs, swinging used disks around on the ring at the end of the round - it's a very satisfying toy.

You'd be right to think of it as another version of shuffleboard or curling, but the game can live on a small table and you can crank away games from the comfort of a chair with a beer.

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vundercind ◴[] No.41872307[source]
On the board gaming website, Board Game Geek, It sits in the 47th overall rank by ratings (this is very high, even quite good games are often well south of 1,000 in the overall ranks) and fifth in the family games category.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521/crokinole

I’d have had a board years ago if not for worrying it’d become another huge rarely-used thing to store or dispose of, after perhaps a year of good fun with it. Still haven’t played.

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binarymax ◴[] No.41872508[source]
Eh, chess is ranked #453, go #219 and backgammon #1545. The highest ranking game is "Brass: Birmingham" which I have never heard of - so I don't know what to make of these rankings.
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jefftk ◴[] No.41872617[source]
They're not ranking games on whether you've heard of them, but on how fun the BGG community finds them to play. Monopoly is rated #27,258.
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1. binarymax ◴[] No.41872704[source]
I certainly understand that. But again I don't know what to make of the rankings. Yes, I know this is a niche community and yes I know there are more games than these classics...but comparison on Crokinole being #47 among thousands of games in the community is difficult to interpret for someone who hasn't played hundreds of different board games.
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2. legitster ◴[] No.41872902[source]
The best boardgames, as scored by people who play boardgames.

No different than the top review aggregators for any medium. The top movies on Rotten Tomatoes are not ranked just by name recognition.