Customer Reviews

Mad Hatter Crokinole 3-in-1 Game

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"Beautiful deluxe wooden Crokinole game" is a poor description of this high-density CARDBOARD
game on which a woodgrain applique has been applied. The only wood in this game is the playing
discs. The bumpers are medium density fiberboard and mine game came shipped with practically
no protection inside. As a result, it had a badly damaged corner straight out of the box.

The pegs are plastic and are somehow glued into the darker cardboard backer. Mine were damaged
(?in transit?) and quite loose (no way to tighten them appears possible).

Amazon.com did a very nice job of refunding my money, but buyer beware: The pictures on the
web look much nicer than the actual product. The actual product looks only marginally better than
the surface of a Monopoly board.

This game was a MASSIVE hit with everyone at Christmas. I got it for my 9 and 7 year olds - they LOVED playing it, but my cousins, niece, nephew and myself (ranging from 16 - 32) played for two hours after they went to bed!!! It is seriously addicting, and tremendously fun. The quality of the product cannot be matched for the price either.

Crokinole is a game I grew up playing with my family, we spent many hours of friendly competition and just having fun. I was excited to find this board and teach my children how to play. Now they too are thoroughly enjoying this timeless game.

This is a great game for kids and adults. I bought one and introduced the game to friends, and at least five families now have their own. We keep ours on a small table in the family room, and play regularly. Young children (maybe age 8 and up, my kids are older) can easily play with adults since it is a dexterity game, but there is some strategy in what disks to try to dislodge, what angles to use, how to hide behind the posts, etc. Can be played by either 2 players or two teams of 2. Games between evenly matched teams will last from about 15 - 30 minutes.

There's not a great deal of formal educational value here (but that's not why I play family games). There is a bit of arithmetic to keep score (adding and substracting disks worth 5, 10, 15, and 20).

The quality of the product is quite good. You can buy solid wood boards online that would last forever, but at the price of $... (or substantially more). This game is a very good purchase at $...

Mad Hatter Toys makes an excellent product. I just bought one of these boards and it is the greatest game ever!

My neighbor bought a more expensive board from Dufferin Games, and we both like the Mad Hatter board much better. Good job guys.

Starting in Canada around 1850 Crokinole is a fun and fast game of skill, stratagy and flicking little wooden puks