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Home #Makerspace: A DIY Carrom or Marbles Game Board!

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This week, we built a game board which you can customize to play marbles, skittles, carrom, billiards, pool, shuffleboard, crokinole and more!

My game board features two games, marbles and carrom.  Marbles has been played for thousands of years in various forms.  Carrom is a “strike and pocket” game that evolved in East India.  Both games provide hours of entertainment for young kids during rainy days and family game nights.  Carrom Company of Ludington, MI has a 100-in-1 version of this board that many, many grown kids remember.

This game board uses vinyl stickers for decoration, 45 degree miters reinforced with pin nails and grooves.  This construction technique can be used to make large playing surfaces.  I used the same technique to make The DIY Knock Hockey project a few weeks ago, and it will show up in next week’s project.

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Home #Makerspace: DIY Knock Hockey Set

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When the ice melts from the first burst of spring, the hockey fun doesn’t have to stop.  Take hockey inside with DIY Knock Hockey, a wood table-top game which makes for hours and hours of fun.

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This tutorial utilizes a table saw to create the necessary rabbets and miter joints.  These are great intermediate table saw skills to learn, practice and utilize in your work flow.  Strong, clean joinery really sets your project apart from the pack.  While kid-focused, this project isn’t really designed to be made with young maker help.

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I use this game to help teach basic concepts of physics, such as momentum, rebound angles, and friction.  Game play teaches turn-taking and sportsmanship.  Lastly, the rules are incredibly simple…but “house” rules unleash cooperative play and teach fairness.

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