Shuffleboard

Shuffleboard is a game in which players use cues to push weighted discs, sending them gliding down a narrow court, with the purpose of having them come to rest within a marked scoring area.

Henry VIII played "shovillabourde" for stakes, and custom "shovelboard" tables were kept in wealthy English households until the 17th century.

[2][3] The rising popularity of billiards in that century displaced shovelboard from high society,[4] but variations of it continued in public houses.

[6][7] One account describes shuffleboard as "a kind of deck bagatelle," a then-popular billiards game with numbered scoring targets.

[8] Robert Ball is credited with bringing this "deck shuffleboard" ashore in 1913 when he added a court in front of his Lyndhurst Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The game continues throughout the United States as an amateur pastime, attractive to older players due to its combination of low physical demands and strategic complexity.

[citation needed] Typically a scoring zone is painted at each end of the court to reduce set-up time between games.

The court is the same from each end, including: Modern floor shuffleboard is played with eight round, hard, durable 6-inch (150 mm) diameter plastic discs.

Australia (1991), Brazil (1997), Germany (2006), Norway (2011) Russia (2013) and lately Netherlands (2023) joined the World Championships, which take place yearly and last for one week.

[14] In table shuffleboard, the play area is most commonly a wooden or laminated surface covered with silicone beads (colloquially called 'shuffleboard wax') to reduce friction.

The long sides of the table are bounded by gutters into which pucks can fall or be knocked (in which case they are no longer in play for the remainder of the frame).

A variant known sometimes as bankboard has rubber cushions or 'banks' running the length of both sides of the table, instead of gutters, and as in billiards, the banks can be used to gain favorable position.

The objective of the game is to slide, by hand, all four of one's Weights alternately against those of an opponent, so that they reach the highest scoring area without falling off the end of the board into the alley.

For playing on surface, players hold stick like paddles to propel the pucks (biscuits/discs) into a numerical area that shows lines with specific scoring points.