Crokinole

Crokinole is a disk-flicking dexterity board game most closely associated with Canadian origin, with the earliest known surviving board crafted by Eckhardt Wettlaufer in 1876 in Perth County, Ontario, and boards produced in Canada and the United States from the mid-1800s onward. Two players compete individually or four players compete in two teams of two, each taking turns flicking small wooden discs from the outer edge of a circular board toward its center. The board carries three concentric scoring rings worth five, ten and fifteen points and a recessed central hole worth twenty points, guarded by a ring of eight small wooden bumpers near the middle. A key tactical element is that players must also try to knock an opponent's discs off the board entirely while protecting their own discs already in scoring position, since a disc left exposed near the rim can be flicked away by the next shooter. Matches are usually played as a race to a set score across multiple rounds, rewarding both a steady flicking technique and shot selection under pressure from the opposing discs already on the board.