What is shuffleboard?
A: Shuffleboard is a game in which players use cues to push weighted discs,
sending them gliding down a narrow court, with the purpose of having them
come to rest within a marked scoring area.
Shuffleboard as a form of popular amusement, and in
Europe has a history that goes back how far?
A: Over 500 years.
The game was played and gambled over by what king?
A: King Henry VIII of England, who prohibited commoners from playing.
In its goals, form and equipment, shuffleboard shares
various features including what?
A: Air hockey, bowls, bocce, curling, croquet, carrom and billiards.
Today, the deck game is often associated with whom?
A: The elderly, though it is increasingly popular among younger generations.
Where is its miniaturized tabletop variant popular?
A: In bars and pubs.
In deck or floor shuffleboard, players use a what to
push their colored disks, down a court?
A: Cue (cue-stick).
The players are attempting to place their disks where?
A: Within a marked scoring area at the far end of the court.
The disks themselves are of two contrasting what?
A: Colors (usually yellow and black), each color belonging to a player or
team.
The scoring diagram is divided by lines, into how many
scoring zones?
A: Six with the following values: 10, 8, 8, 7, 7, 10-off.
For a score to be good the disk must be what?
A: Completely within a scoring zone without touching (overlapping) any part
of the borderline of the zone.
Both players' good disks are what?
A: Added to their respective scores.
Players (or teams of two players, one at each end) take
turns doing what?
A: Going first during a game, so that the advantageous last shot of a frame
(the hammer) also alternates between players.
The winner of the game may be the first to reach any
total decided upon or may be what?
A: The higher score after playing a certain number of frames.
Dimensions of a floor shuffleboard court can vary to
suit available space, but an official shuffleboard court has what
dimensions?
A: 6 feet (1.8 m) wide by 39 feet (12 m) in length plus a 6-foot (1.8 m)
shooting area at each end.
Typically, a scoring zone is painted at each end of the
court to reduce what?
A: Set-up time between games.
Each scoring zone comprises an isosceles triangle 6
feet × 9 feet with the short edge where?
A: Away from the shooter.
Behind the scoring zone is the 10-off zone, an area how
deep?
A: 1½ feet deep.
The court surface is usually a uniform what?
A: Dark green; lines are 1 inch wide except for the mid-shooting area.
1-inch (25 mm) white lines form the scoring triangle
and further divide the triangle into what?
A: The separate scoring zones.
A dead-line or lag-Line runs from side to side 12 feet
from what?
A: The base-line (The dead-line is therefore 3 feet from the tip of the
triangle).
Any shot disk that does not cross or touch the furthest
dead-line is what?
A: Removed from the court (a wasted shot).