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Leon Wyczółkowski, A Game of Croquet (1892–1895), National Museum, Warsaw. Croquet (UK: / ˈ k r oʊ k eɪ,-k i / or US: / k r oʊ ˈ k eɪ /) is a sport [1] [2] which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. [3]
Shuffleboard is a game in which players use cues to push weighted discs, sending them gliding down a narrow court, with the purpose of having them come to rest within a marked scoring area. As a more generic term, it refers to the family of shuffleboard-variant games as a whole.
Like croquet, roque players mark their progress on the court by placing colored markers on the arches. However, while croquet traditionally places the marker on the top of the wicket for the first pass-through and on the side of the wicket for the second pass, roque markers were usually placed at the top of the arch and were labeled on one side.
A mid-20th-century version of ground billiards (aside from the aforementioned box hockey) has been played on a 30 by 60 ft (approximately 9 by 19 m) clay court. [2]: 117 This may have been an influence from croquet, as roque, an early-20th-century Olympic variant of croquet, used a court of the same dimensions. [16]
Jul. 29—Grab a sazerac and hoist your mallet: Croquet day is nearly here. You know what that means: elaborately engineered headwear, enough tweed to make your eyes twinkle and the kind of ...
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