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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.
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]
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]
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The United States Croquet Association (USCA) fosters croquet in all its forms, from the familiar nine-wicket croquet game to the modern sport of six-wicket croquet. There are USCA-affiliated clubs and tournaments across the United States and Canada. The official rules of American Croquet are maintained by the USCA.
Courts are available for use on residential decks or on any solid flat surface, in the form of roll-out plastic mats, or adjustable arrays of plastic tiles. With the tile courts, the dimensions can be adapted to the space available; e.g. it is possible to play on a court 30 ft long (9.1 m) by 5 ft wide (1.5 m).
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Croquet in New Zealand (1 C, 1 P) U. Croquet in the United Kingdom (2 C, 3 P) Croquet in the United States (1 C, 7 P) This page was last edited on 18 September 2019 ...