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Perhaps the biggest crokinole tournament is the World Crokinole Championship in Tavistock, Ontario, on the first Saturday in June. This tournament attracts players from all over the world. There are many more tournaments and clubs all over Canada and the northern United States, and some have arisen in other areas, including the American Southwest.
Crokinole (/ ˈ k r oʊ k ɪ n oʊ l / ⓘ KROH-ki-nohl) is a disk-flicking dexterity board game, possibly of Canadian origin, similar to the games of pitchnut, carrom, and pichenotte, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size.
The related game of crokinole is a game in which the players take turn to flick small discs on a circular board, to score highest depending on where the disc lands on the board where the regions are marked with score.
Trencadís (Catalan pronunciation: [tɾəŋkəˈðis]), also known as pique assiette, broken tile mosaics, bits and pieces, memoryware, and shardware, is a type of mosaic made from cemented-together tile shards and broken chinaware.
Whitcoulls is a major New Zealand book, stationery, gift, games and toy retail chain. Formerly known as Whitcombe & Tombs, it has 54 stores nationally.Whitcombe & Tombs was founded in 1888, and Coulls Somerville Wilkie in 1871.
The only game mentioned at all anywhere on those sites is a card game, euchre (which it specifically mentions Tommy Eagan liked to play, but does not mention crokinole). As it stands, these paragraphs sound like a hoax! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drojem (talk • contribs) 20:44, 3 June 2009 (UTC) OK, I removed it.