American version Carrom boards Carrom or carroms is a family of tabletop games sharing a similarity in that their mechanics lie somewhere between billiards and table shuffleboard. The game has various other names around the world, including carrum, carum, karam, karom, karum, and "Indian finger billiards". Carambole billiards (or carom) is a billiards game possibly developed in the 18th century in France, though the exact date of invention is not clear. ...
Illustration of a three ball pocket billiards game in early 19th century Tübingen, Germany, using a table much longer than the modern type. ...
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A Carrom-man (also, carromman, carroman; plural -men, sometimes abbreviated c/m, and known by colloquial terms such as a coin or got) is a usually wooden (sometimes plastic), uniform small disk used in playing carrom. ...
THe Queen Of Carrom The Queen is The very powerful Carroman in the game of Carrom. ...
In the sport of Carrom, an umpire hide black and white carromen in his hands and player have to guess the coins this process is called calling of Carromen or simply called the toss. ...
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Tabletop game is a general term used to refer to card games, board games, parlor games, role-playing games, miniature wargames, tile-based games and other games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface. ...
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Table shuffleboard (also known as American shuffleboard or indoor shuffleboard) is a game in which players push metal-and-plastic weighted pucks (also called weights) down a long and smooth wooden table into a scoring area at the opposite end of the table. ...
Origins
 Two children playing carrom with a nun in India The origins of carrom are uncertain. The majority of sources suggest that the game is of Indian origin while some sources claim the game is of Chinese origin. Yemen, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and North Africa are also suggested as potential regions of origin. In the West, where the game is often similar to billiards-type games, it may have independently developed in several cases as a mixture of billiards and shuffleboard. Image File history File links Salesian_carrom. ...
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Northern Africa (UN subregion) geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Illustration of a three ball pocket billiards game in early 19th century Tübingen, Germany, using a table much longer than the modern type. ...
Equipment
The nineteen carrom men are set up in the "outer circle" The game was played on a board of lacquered plywood, normally with a 29 inch (74 cm) square playing surface. The edges of the playing surface are bounded by bumpers of wood. Instead of the balls of billiards games, carrom uses disks (also known as pucks or coins). The object of the game is to strike or flick with a finger a comparatively heavy disk called a "striker" such that it contacts lighter object disks called "carrom men" (alternatively, "carrom seeds") and propels them into one of four corner pockets. The carrom men come in two colors denoting the two players (or, in doubles play, teams). Traditionally, these colors are white (or unstained) and black. The breaker always plays white. An additional carrom man is colored red and called the "queen". Carrom board, photo by Matthew Mayer, GFDL File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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A close-up picture of American-style pool balls Billiard balls are used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. ...
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The following is a glossary of traditional terms used in the three main cue sport disciplines: pocket billiards (pool), which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets such as straight pool, eight-ball, nine-ball, one-pocket and bank pool; carom billiards referring to the...
Carrom men and two strikers, arranged at the start of a game. Carrom men, photo by Matthew Mayer, GFDL File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Rules The aim of the game is to pot one's own nine carrom men before one's opponent pots his/hers. However, before sinking one's final carrom man, the queen must be pocketed and then "covered" by pocketing one of one's own carrom men on the same or subsequent strike. Fouls, such as crossing the diagonal lines on the board with any part of one's body, or potting the striker, lead to carrom men being returned to the board. The shooting player (or "carromer") is not allowed to shoot the striker behind the line, except when hitting a back shot. However, directly striking any coin that is touching the player's base line is not allowed, even for a back shot. The following is a glossary of traditional terms used in the three main cue sport disciplines: pocket billiards (pool), which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets such as straight pool, eight-ball, nine-ball, one-pocket and bank pool; carom billiards referring to the...
Sometimes, the back shot is allowed, which is called thumb shots or (thumbing) . But the "carromer" is allowed play only using thumb.
Point carrom A variant often popular with children or an odd number of players. Play is as above except that all players try to sink all carrom men, regardless of color. The nine carrom men of one color are worth one point each and the nine carrom men of the other color are worth two points each. The red queen is worth five points and may only be captured by pocketing another carrom man on the same or subsequent strike. A player reaching 17 or more points is the winner, otherwise the winner is the player with the most points after all carrom men have been pocketed.
Board variations Carrom boards come in various sizes, as do the corner pockets. Smaller boards, and boards with larger pockets, are often employed by beginners for easier gameplay. On traditional carrom boards the corner pockets are only slightly larger than the carrom men, and smaller than the shooter. On boards with larger pockets, it is possible to sink the shooter, resulting in a "scratch shot" as in pool. This is called a "due". Typically on a "due", one of your pocketed men come back into the table. The following is a glossary of traditional terms used in the three main cue sport disciplines: pocket billiards (pool), which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets such as straight pool, eight-ball, nine-ball, one-pocket and bank pool; carom billiards referring to the...
Pocket billiards at a pub in Groningen, Netherlands 8 ball pool in Beijing, China Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of billiards table, having 6 receptacles called pockets (or holes) along the rails, in...
American carrom
 A simple American version with cue sticks and a chess/checkers pattern. Note the pockets, which are much larger than traditional Indian carrom holes.
 A more elaborate American board, with even more markings for other games. American carrom is a variant[clarify] on carrom derived in America by missionaries to the East, around 1890.[citation needed] Believing that the game required restructuring for Western tastes, a Sunday school teacher named Henry Haskell altered the game.[citation needed] Much of the game is the same, but the striker's weight is reduced and the carrom men are smaller. Generally, instead of disks of solid wood, ivory, or acrylic, carrom men (including the striker) are rings, originally of wood but today commercially made of light plastic. In addition, as an alternative to using the fingers to flick the striker, American carrom uses miniature cue sticks. American carrom boards also have pockets built into the corners, rather than circular holes in the board, to make pocketing easier. While traditionally made boards vary widely, current commercially-produced American carrom boards are 28 inches square, are printed with checkerboard and backgammon patterns, among others, and are sold with checkers, chess pieces, skittles, etc., to allow other games to be played on the same board. Often, these boards are also built to play crokinole. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1632x1224, 337 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Carrom User:Doug Coldwell/Sandboxes/Sandbox 30 ...
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A cue stick A cue stick or simply cue, is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of billiards, pool and snooker. ...
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The following is a glossary of traditional terms used in the three main cue sport disciplines: pocket billiards (pool), which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets such as straight pool, eight-ball, nine-ball, one-pocket and bank pool; carom billiards referring to the...
Crokinole is an action board game similar to caroms, shove hapenny or squails with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. ...
Variations A version of American carrom was played in Southern California schools in the 1950s-1970s, using a somewhat larger square board and wooden rings struck with cue sticks.[citation needed] There was both a golf version and a maze version. In the golf version, there was a series of nine "holes" (really just green areas on the board.) A player had to start at the tee for a particular hole and get a carrom coin completely within the green region to advance to the next hole. Sand trap hazards would cause the player to lose a stroke and lake hazards would cause the player to lose two.[citation needed] A modified commercial version also exists.[1] In the maze version, the playing board was divided by wooden rails into a maze of spiral corridors. The object was to be the first to get to the center. The surface was marked with areas that would send the player forward or back if landed on, similar to other board games.[2][3] A commercial version of this is now also available.[1] This article is about the region of Southern California. ...
Novuss -
A popular variant in Latvia and Estonia is called novuss (or koroona), and is subject to notable amateur and even professional competition between the two countries. Like the American game, it is played with cue sticks (but they are much closer in size to pool cues), and the board has corner pockets instead of round holes. The board is 40 inches (100 cm) square, mounted on a roughly groin-height table, and there are two striker pucks (one for each player), eight object disks ("men") per player, and no queen. The game dates to the mid-to-late 1920s, the first professional match was held in 1932, Latvian national championship began in 1964, and "international" (i.e. Latvia vs. Estonia) competition began in 1993. There are an estimated 55,000 players. The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ...
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Philippines "Filipino" carrom
A cued variant of carrom is also played in the Philippines, and is called karambola. It is similar to novuss, but both players use the same puck for striking with their cues, and only twelve object disks (six per player) are used. The table is usually rotateable so that the players would not have to move to where they will strike the puck, and just rotate the table to a position they are comfortable making a shot at.[citation needed]
A new and improved modernized classic version of the Filipino table game was created for the US market. The U.S. Patent Pending 2008 Classic Flatpool Table, modernized to meet the highest standards, is now embodied in a 21st century soul while staying true to its tradition.
The 2008 Classic Flatpool Table, a hybrid between an Air Hockey table (minus the air) and a Billiards table, is played with Cue Sticks and Flat Discs. Flat discs glide effortlessly across the “Powder-Free” hardwood tabletop. It's space-saving rotating tabletop, a perfect solution for tight spaces, is also designed to detach from the base, making it portable and easy to store.
Australian carrom Australian carrom, also known by the trademark Puckpool, is a variation created in the mid-90s. Like the Indian game, it is played with the hands directly, without cue sticks, but has essentially adopted many of the rules of the popular pool game blackball. Australian carrom is only played with eight pucks per side (whites vs. blacks) as opposed to nine, and calls the "queen" the "crown" or the "colored puck" instead. Shots are taken from each player's "driveline" (a line on the board near the rim of the playing surface closest to the player). Only one striker is used, shots are taken in turn, and all shots are taken from the player's driveline (unlike in blackball). The commercial variant is played without the use of powder, on a smooth, 735 mm (29 in.) square-surfaced, coin-operated machine reminiscent of table-top video games of 1980s, intended for pubs and similar venues.[4] A kick shot in action. ...
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Chinese carrom A variant is played in China, with cue sticks.[5]
See also The International Carrom Federation (ICF) Formation of an international governing body for carrom was first discussed back in the fifties, but the ICF was not formed until October 1988. ...
Chapayev (Game) (Russian: игра в Чапаева), a game played on a checkerboard, is widespread throughout all the territory of the former USSR, a unique hybrid of checkers and billiards. ...
Crokinole is an action board game similar to caroms, shove hapenny or squails with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. ...
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A pichenotte board from Connecticut Pichenotte is a French-Canadian tabletop game, with a board, gamepieces and rules that are similar to carrom. ...
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