Shuffleboard
Outdoor shuffleboard is popular in many retirement areas. Indoor and deck shuffleboard are also popular past-times.
Rules and play
All forms of shuffleboard follow the same basic play. You push your weight down the court to score. You try to push opponents weights out or wick off them, and you try to place your weights into the highest scoring section. A coin toss determines who goes first, and the player that wins an "end", plays first on the next end.
Indoor Table Shuffleboard
A Shuffleboard table can be any distance from 12 - 22 feet long. The height of the table from the ground should be about 30 inches and the width 20 inches. The surface is polished wood. A wax powder is applied to improve the slide of the weights.
Each player slides 4 uniquely marked, weighted metal disks down the table called weights.
For a two player game, the player who scores 11 points first wins. For doubles, which is played in exactly the same way as for singles, the team that scores 21 points first wins.
Outdoor Shuffleboard
The full length of the court is 52 feet. The scoring sections that are drawn at each end are divided into specific zones for different scoring.
Discs must be six inches in diameter, between nine-sixteenths and one inch thick, and normally weigh 15 ounces. The cues that are used to slide the disks are in the form of a long pole with two short prongs at the end of it.
The game is won by the first person to reach 75 points.
Deck Shuffleboard
A Deck Shuffleboard court typically consists of two oval scoring areas separated by a distance of 30 feet.
The game is played with eight wooden disks, around 6 inches in diameter which are pushed along the deck with long cues by the standing players. Each cue is a stick with a "shoe" at the far end. The shoe is a rectangular piece of wood with a semicircle cut into the far side so that it fits snugly around a disk. 4 disks are marked with one colour, the other four with a different colour.
The first player or team, that scores 50-100 points, wins.