Carrom game?

rrlund · Oct 30, 2015

I don't know what in the world got me thinking about that game today,or Carrom boards for playing checkers and other things. I guess the best question would be,is there anybody over 50 here who didn't have a Carrom board in the house? We had one,all of my friends had them,I think every elementary classroom while I was growing up had one. I haven't seen one or even heard of the game in years. For all my travels,I don't ever remember seeing one at a yard sale or flea market. It's like they all disappeared from the face of the earth.

Donald Lehman · Oct 30, 2015

Yup, had one at home and every classroom in school had one grades 1-6. It has been at least 30 years since I have seen a carrom board.

johnpop1 · Oct 30, 2015

I have one from my youth and it is in like new condition. We don't often use it. Mostly it just hangs on the wall.

Den N Ms · Oct 30, 2015

Here,I had a lot of fun on those a few moons ago.

Greg1959 · Oct 30, 2015

I sure do remember them.

Also, what about the Parcheesi metal containers that contained the marbles inside? The container was so hard to open that, usually, once you finally get it to just about open, you end up slinging all the marbles all over the room.

TimV · Oct 30, 2015

Stop by the folk's place--theirs still comes out when the grandkids are home. Spent many a winter night playing caroms when we were their age. Makes my fingernail ache to think of it, though!

JerryS · Oct 30, 2015

I've never heard of a carrom game. If the game shown in Greg1959's post is a carrom board, that explains why I've never heard of it. Down here in the South, where we racially profile everything, it was called "Chinese Checkers."

rrlund · Oct 30, 2015

Ya,that picture is what we called Chinese Checkers too,Den N's picture is of a Carrom board.

Dick2 · Oct 30, 2015

The one that we had is probably still upstairs in the farmhouse. We were all through playing with it before my younger brother got big enough to play so I doubt that he ever used it.

Greg1959 · Oct 30, 2015

JerryS- You are right, it is Chinese Checkers. The one we had growing had like five different games in that one tin container.

CGID · Oct 30, 2015

It's a dim memory, but there was one at our house. It was a combo Christmas gift from my parents to me and my sister. It was a table-top game played like billiards. The game board was about 20 inches square and had a wooden rim around it, no rubber cushions or pockets, and little disks of wood were flicked around with the index fingernail. The game's name comes from making the disks "carom" off the board's rim.

JOCCO · Oct 30, 2015

RR yes and Chinese checkers, There was a shuffle board game too. I remember most boared games (gone now due to computers) and a few real old games like fox and geese.

rrlund · Oct 30, 2015

Ah yes,spent many a winter Saturday and Christmas vacation day playing fox and geese.

Bob Harvey · Oct 30, 2015

Is it anything like 'Crocono' (sp). We've still got one and played it in May when Dotter and grand kids were here.

rrlund · Oct 30, 2015

Crokinole according to Google. Looks quite similar. A search came up with somebody who sells crokinole and carom boards. That's a new one on me though,never heard of it before.

TimV · Oct 30, 2015

Never heard of crokinole, so I looked it up on Youtube. Looks like they have some similarities, but they're not the same. Here's crokinole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud301ESDfeE

and here's Carroms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAvj8qNbygs

The carroms video is from a 2006 "world championship" match in India--interesting as like many games that have been replaced by electronics, it still retains a following in less wired parts of the world. A couple other notes--typically carroms boards had numerous other games on them--often a checker/chess board on one side and Chinese Checkers or something else on the other. Also, our caroms pieces were hard plastic rings, not the type shown in the video. Usual colors were green and red, with white "shooters" and a black "poison" ring much like the 8-ball in pool--it had to be sunk last, and sinking it earlier lost the game for you.

NEKS · Oct 30, 2015

I just hollered at the wife and ask her if we had a Carrom board and she said no. We had one when I was a kid at home and there was 7 of us, so it got used a lot. I need to ask them who has it. As I remember it was starting to show its wear.

Dick L · Oct 30, 2015

Carrom was a game my late wifes family played when we started dating. The carom board came out after most evening meals when I was there. A carrom board was the first game for home we bought after we got married. It served us well thru our kids growing up and was played some with grand kids. It is in its original box in the attic now even though the box is in rough condition. If I remember correctly some of the carroms were missing the last time it was out before my late wife died. Thanks for reminding me. I might just go up and get it out. Our attic is just a narrow unfinished walk in room easy to hunt for stuff.

Den N Ms · Oct 30, 2015

That Carrom game reminded of this one Cootie game played it to as a kid.

rrlund · Oct 30, 2015

Yep,we had that one too. How about Bop the Beetle?
One of the beetle boppers got dropped down the vent pipe for the bathroom drain at some point. That toilet never flushed right when I was in high school. I'd lived here for 20 years after I bought the place before I finally ran a snake up there and got ahold of that thing,not even knowing it was there. You'd never believe something like that could cause as much trouble as it did for all those years.

J.Wondergem · Oct 30, 2015

We still have one, and the carroms.

IaLeo · Oct 30, 2015

Thanks for starting this thread-it was THE connection to my cousins on the Sunday gettogethers. I have a board somewhere around here, lets see......... Leo

Bob Harvey · Oct 30, 2015

Thanks for posting the links. I see that both games have a common element - (finger). They have different boards, AND, I've never heard of the 'World Championship on Crokinole' (thanks for the correct spelling).Every day is a school day. Still gots an operational Crokinole board and accoutrements. ( coasters for beverage containers (with ice) to sit on, ashtray (OUTSIDE)), and snack platters. Also keep paramedics in tune - it can get nasty ! Always have cell phone dialled to 91, then all I have to do is dial 1.

john in la · Oct 30, 2015

I must have lead a sheltered life.
Have never heard of; seen; or know how to play; Carrom.
And I am closer to 60 than I am to 50.

TimV · Oct 30, 2015

Yup--as a wise man once said, "every day you don't learn something is a day wasted". Looks like we've both taught each other something today! The wikipedia entry for Crokinole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crokinole says it most likely originated in Ontario, and seeing that's just over the border from me it's odd I'd never heard of it, but I hadn't. It also says it's popular in Amish and Mennonite communities, of which we've got lots around here, but again, Carroms was the usual choice around here as well. It also mentions a Crokinole world championship held in Tavistock, Ontario, supposedly the home of the earliest known maker of a Crokinole board, so who knows--you might just have what it takes!

Pair-a-dice farm · Oct 30, 2015

Me too. We did have a checker board and once in a blue moon we might drag out the monopoly game. Mostly we just went to bed because we were worn out. About the only time we stayed up late was when we had to pull a calf.

DENNIS MIN · Oct 30, 2015

Played that Cootie game at the grandparents. I am unsure if the colored plastics were the same as yours though. It's been a while. ( more than a few decades).

D.

John-MI · Oct 30, 2015

Do you know where the carom factory is? Not to far from where you live. It's in Ludington,Mich

John-MI · Oct 30, 2015

Ment to say carrom factory.

Wayne in MN · Oct 30, 2015

Want one? I have one or two I can part with.

Bob Harvey · Oct 30, 2015

Well apparently it migrated to Alberta in the dark ages and then my wife brought it with her to B.C. in the brighter ages ! H.P.H.

JD Seller · Oct 30, 2015

I too have never heard of this game, Carron. I even looked at pictures of the board and I still have not seen or heard of it before today.

CKain(MI) · Oct 30, 2015

Well I had one and my sisters & I played that game many times, in the 50's.

Two weeks ago, the local(Kalamazoo) on-line auction site (biddergy) had one up for auction. I didn't see what it went for. We didn't have a pool table in a rec room, in those days huh ?

Donald Lehman · Oct 31, 2015

Yeah, I remember that part of it, too! Lol!

Janicholson · Oct 31, 2015

My students and I made 12 carom boards last spring. They were the Idea of a student from Pakistan, and were voted on for the product to make. They were built to the Carom board rules, and are wonderful. We used a CNC router to create inlays for the decorations and pockets. Awsome. Jim

coshoo · Oct 31, 2015

Yep, we had one like Den pictured below, when I was a kid, and another when our kids were growing up. I also remember the sore fingernails! Need to try to find it, its a good game to play with grandkids. We also had the tin Chinese Checker board when I was a kid, but a thick cardboard one (two layers of cardboard, with holes cut in the top layer for the marbles) for our kids. I liked the "feel" of the tin one better, but the holes were not deep enough, and it was easy to send the marbles rolling around if you were not careful!

flying H · Oct 31, 2015

place your finger nail against the shooter b4 you snap and it doesnt hurt. Used to play 4 hours.

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