Ah, the end of Gencon has come and gone. What other kind of fascinating games did I see? Let me think...
There was another board game, called Crokinole, that stood out to me as interesting. Apparently it's not new, but has been around for years, dating to the 1860s. Crokinole played on a circular board with three rings around the circumference and a circle in the middle. These are the scoring rings. The one closest to the outside is one point, the second has five points, the middle ring is ten points, and anyone who makes it to the circle scores fifteen points. Each player has twelve disks to shoot and try to land in the circle in the middle of the board. But there's a few catches to this.
1) Each disk, minus the first one played, has to bounce of another player's disk. So each player constantly tries to flick their disk into the circle, and consequently bounce another's out of it.
2) There are eight pegs spaced evenly around the circle to make this a bit more difficult. Not only is the goal to hit another player's disk, but to make a very careful path around the pegs as well.
3) If a disk runs wild, doesn't hit another player's disk, or hits a peg and bounces back into another ring, it's counted as a failure, and taken out of play.
Kind of a tricky little game, but GREAT fun to play. I was a little wary of it at first, as the board is large and kind of expensive, but it's simple to learn and entertains 2-4 players for about thirty minutes. I would definitely recommend looking into getting this one.
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