Carrom Maze Board

Factual Questions
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When I was a kid in the 1970’s, I remember playing this carrom board game at recess at my school. If you don’t know, playing a carrom board game is like playing pool on a smaller wood board. I believe the carroms are the pieces you hit with the stick.

This particular one had a maze built into it and you hit the carroms through this maze in a race against your opponents. There were also “pitfalls”, as in marked areas where your carroms couldn’t land or you suffered some penalty (like lose a turn).

Anyone know where I could find a carrom maze board? I’ve searched high and low through the Internet and Ebay.

thanks!

2

I remember that game.

Try using carom in your search.

3

Sticks were for wimps! We always flicked the pieces (the white ones were the shooters) with our fingers!

I grew up with that game! Lots of links to it on Google. I’ve even got a board somewhere down in my basement. Crokinole too, IIRC.

http://www.efootbridge.com/

The maze part, with raised pegs and small indentations slightly larger than the pieces, was on the back of the pictured board. I think this was the crokinole part. http://www.battysbest.com/images/Crokinole.gif

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Nah, sticks were cool because they allowed us wee tykes to pretend we were shooting pool. :wink:

I remember the carrom maze game, though I can’t find an image of it online. My favorite carrom game, though, was the nine-hole golf course – each hole had a starting “tee,” and a “green” formed by placing barriers with a few cut slots for the carrom to slip through. You could play an 18-hole game by doing the first nine holes backwards for the second half of the game.

Man, now I’m hankerin’ to play it again…

5

And, of course, two minutes after I post, I find some relevant links:

Carrom pocket golf
Same thing, but from Amazon.com

The original carrom maze game is apparently discontinued, but here’s a play-alike update with a dungeon theme:

Carrom dungeon maze game

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rjung,

You’re my hero! Of course, the original is always the best, but the maze board and pocket golf at Tigerhawk look like it could be fun

thanks!