# Carom Boards - Impressions?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carom-boards-impressions/405601>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 26, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carom-boards-impressions/405601 "2007-05-26T13:48:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Miscue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@Miscue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miscue)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carom-boards-impressions/405601/1 "2007-05-26T13:48:20Z")

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Wow, my first thread. I hope I put it in the right place.

I’m an avid three-cushion billiards (carom billiards) fan who is fascinated by angles. By extension, I love raquetball and other things that involve angles and at which I am terrible. The problem, though, is that I can’t get my wife to go to the poolroom with me because of the smoke/late hours/crass and excessive gambling and/or whoofing that goes on there/drinking/a million other things I love about poolrooms.

That being said, does anyone else here share my strange love of angles who has experience playing the Asian carom game on a board? It’s a game played on a smallish (three foot square?) board using finger-flicked pieces that I only recently learned existed. It seems interesting to me, but I worry about the novelty factor wearing off. Has that been a problem for anyone else, or is the potential level of complexity such that the game could really engross us? Would spending a couple bills on a board be like dropping $100 on a Tiddly-Winks set?

Thanks in advance.