Comments on: Extreme Croquet

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:52:26 +0000

We have played a game we called killer croquet. First, one sets up a normal croquet court, then there are a few rule modifications.

1. Before play, one must drink a beer and throw the empty on the field.
2. One must always play with a beer in hand. When one finishes the beer, one must throw the empty on the field.
3. If one’s ball hits an empty on the field, one must chug the beer in hand, and throw the empty on the field.
Eventually, due to intoxication and the accumulation of empties on the field, it gets nigh impossible to take a shot without hitting an empty.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:21:21 +0000

I am from a small town, so to entertain ourselves we came up with interesting things to do. Okay, maybe not so interesting, but things to do nonetheless. We called our version of extreme croquet, Wicket! We played in a hilly park with lots of trees, frisbee golfers, and other obstacles. The harder the better. This game also had the added rule of boys having to roll up their pant legs, “Wicket-style.”

We were weird even for the other kids. :)

By: Mandie

Mandie — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:21:37 +0000

There is a novelist by the name of Jasper Fforfe who has a caracter named Thursday Next. (Not to ruin it for anyone whoe wishes to read his book), but in the fourth book, Something Rotton, Thursday must play Xtreme crouquet to save the world. Not only is a visous and oft times deadly sport, but the players must play around hazzards such as tea parties and rose bushes. It is hilarious and I will take this blog to plug Mr. Fforde and the guenius that he is.

By: mri

mri — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:52:28 +0000

‘kay. so we had a part of a croquet set at this summer opera company where i used to work. the parts we lacked? wickets. so what did we do? we stole all the knives out of the community kitchen, cleared a LARGE area on the lawn, and started tossing knives into the groud around us. wherever one landed we carefully placed another next to it, creating an approximately wicket-sized space. we let judgement rule for height (no shots over the tops of the knife handles). wicket order was determined after the 2nd to last knife was thrown. we had water hazards, swampy areas, gravel driveways, and skunks to deal with. it was pretty eXtreme…