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Far from it. This is the game that turns your calm book-and-armchair grandpa into a wild competitive lunatic. It turns your sweet auntie into a table-flipping animal. It's up there with Euchre for turning old people into unhinged gamers, and I absolutely love it for that.

I'm particularly impressed by your choice of "up there with Euchre" as a metaphor to explain Crokinole. It's like you wanted to make it relatable for people in a larger geographic region, but only a little larger.

More like shuffleboard. It's great for children (I grew up playing it), and is fun for children and adults to play together.

Definitely not just for children! It's a really fun game for everyone, and it's a lot easier to have a crokinole board around the house than a pool table.

After building my own.. not much ;) big enough to be annoying to store (doesn't quite fit under the couch or in many tiny closets. A lot of them have hardware sunk into the bottom/back of the board for wall hanging.

But yes, super fun. See the youtube video I posted elsewhere in the thread for a pretty great 'review' of this game which dates back to at least 1867.