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Curated pickCanada's own flicking game — the heirloom board that comes out every Christmas Eve
A large round wooden crokinole board with discs and centre pegs, played by flicking discs toward the centre hole. A Canadian classic with heirloom staying power.
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Crokinole is the rare gift that arrives as furniture and stays as tradition. Ontario farmhouses have passed boards down for generations, and giving one starts that clock for a new family: the Christmas Eve tournament, the disputed twenty-hole shot, the uncle who practises secretly all November.
The verdict
Give this to the family whose house is holiday headquarters. It costs real money and takes real space, and in exchange it becomes the tradition every future gathering is scheduled around.
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Yes — the game's roots trace to nineteenth-century rural Ontario, and it remains a beloved staple of Canadian family gatherings.
It works head-to-head or in paired teams around the board — check the listing for the included disc colours.
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