- Also called:
- British Croquet, or English Croquet
- Related Topics:
- croquet
- golf croquet
association croquet
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What is association croquet?
Association croquet is a lawn game played with wooden mallets to hit balls through wire hoops, with a central peg as the goal. Two sides alternate, using four balls of different colors: blue and black against red and yellow. The aim is to hit each ball through all hoops in order and strike the center peg. Each side has 26 points to score, 13 with each ball. The game is won by the number of points that the loser has yet to make when the opponent has hit the peg with both balls.
The association croquet court is rectangular, 35 yards long by 28 yards wide, defined by boundary and yard lines. In the UK, the Croquet Association governs tournaments.
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What does the basic equipment for association croquet include?
Association croquet requires wooden mallets to hit balls through wire hoops, with a central peg as the ultimate goal. Four matched balls made of wood, plastic, or hard rubber are used, with blue and black always partnering against red and yellow. The association croquet court is rectangular, 35 yards long by 28 yards wide, and defined by a boundary line. A yard line runs around the court one yard inside of the boundary line. Portions of the yard line, 13 yards long, are the balk lines, from either of which each player starts his first turn.
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How is the association croquet lawn set up?
Association croquet is played on a rectangular court, typically 35 yards (31.95 m) long and 28 yards (25.56 m) wide, marked by a boundary line. Inside this, a yard line runs one yard from the edge, with 13-yard portions forming the balk lines from which players start their initial turns.
The aim involves hitting each ball through all the hoops in sequence, in both directions, and finally striking the central peg. Each side has 26 points to score, 13 with each ball.
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How do players score points in association croquet?
In association croquet, each side has two balls and aims to score 26 points by hitting each ball through all the hoops in the correct order and direction, and then hitting the center peg with each ball.
A player earns points by hitting:
- Successfully hitting their ball through a hoop.
- Hitting another ball (a "roquet"), which earns the player two additional strokes: a "croquet stroke" to drive the other ball out of position, and a "continuation stroke."
Each of the four balls may be roqueted only once in a turn unless a point is scored. The game is won by the side that completes the course and pegs out with both balls, with scoring based on the number of points the losing side has left to make.
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What are some key rules that make association croquet different from other croquet games?
Association croquet differs from other croquet games through specific rules and gameplay. In association croquet, sides alternate play, using four balls, with blue and black partners against red and yellow. The game's objective involves hitting each ball through all hoops consecutively, in each direction, and then hitting the central peg.
A player earns two additional strokes after a roquet: first, a croquet stroke and secondly, one more ordinary stroke, called a continuation stroke. The association croquet court is a defined rectangular area, and tournaments are governed by associations in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. A modified version, golf croquet, involves all balls played for one hoop at a time, with points scored by the side whose ball first runs through each hoop.
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association croquet, lawn game in which players use wooden mallets to hit balls through a series of wire hoops, or wickets, with a central peg as the ultimate goal. It is played on an organized basis in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. (For the origins of the game and a general history, see croquet.)
In association croquet, two sides alternate play, each side consisting of either one or two players. Four matched balls, made of wood, plastic, or hard rubber, are used, each side playing different colours; blue and black are always partners against red and yellow. Singles players have two balls apiece. The object of the game is to hit each ball through all of the hoops consecutively, in each direction, and then to hit the peg point. The peg may be hit from any direction; each side thus has 26 points to score, 13 with each ball. A game is won by the number of points that the loser has yet to make when the opponent has hit the peg with both balls. In singles, any ordinary turn may be played with either ball of the side, provided that no ordinary turn is played with the same ball again until all the balls are in play. In doubles, one partner plays throughout with one ball and his teammate plays with the other. When all four balls are in play, the sides alternate, but the partners of a double need not alternate in their play.
The association croquet court is rectangular, 35 yards (31.95 m) long by 28 yards (25.56 m) wide, and is defined by a boundary line. A yard line runs around the court one yard inside of the boundary line. Portions of the yard line, 13 yards (11.9 m) long, are the balk lines, from either of which each player starts his first turn. An ordinary turn consists of one stroke; but if that stroke is a roquetāa move in which the ball strikes one of the other three ballsāor if the ball passes through a hoop, the turn is extended. A player earns two additional strokes after a roquet: first, a croquet stroke, which is played by placing oneās ball in contact with the roqueted ball and then striking oneās ball with the mallet, thereby driving the roqueted ball out of position; and secondly, one more ordinary stroke, called a continuation stroke. This second additional stroke also may roquet one of the other balls, but each ball may be roqueted only once in each turn, unless a point is scored (that is, the ball passes through a hoop).
In a modified version known as golf croquet, all balls are played for one hoop at a time, with the hoops played in order. A point is scored by the side whose ball first runs through each hoop.
In the United Kingdom, croquet tournaments are governed by the Croquet Association, founded in 1896, which sponsors the open championships; the menās, womenās, and mixed-doubles championships; and invitational events, including the Presidentās Cup. Separate governing bodies for croquet also exist in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. In the 1970s, interest in association croquet arose in the United States, and the United States Croquet Association was founded in 1976.