Carroming in America
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Loading ...According to wikipedia the Americans play a variation of
Carrom which was brought from the East by missionaries in the 1890’s.
It is quite similar except the striker is lighter and the carrom pieces are smaller than in the games played in Asia and Europe.
This could be because they use rings instead of solid pieces.
These rings used to be made of wood, but now are available in plastic.
They also use short cues instead of fingers to pot their pieces and the boards have pockets built into the corners to make pocketing easier.
However a carrom board is not just a carrom board.
Many have patterns painted or printed on them that allow you to play crokinole, backgammon, chess, checkers and many more traditional board games.
The man held responsible for changing the original carrom was Henry Haskell, a Sunday school teacher.
I don’t know whether he should be congratulated or condemned.
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