Extreme croquet

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AndrewSeven says:

April 30, 2004 at 9:07 am

Extreem?

It looks like they have been playing against my mother.

She is a vicious croquet player ( her second favorite game, scrabble is #1), it is not unusual to end up clibing over a fence or into a row of shrubs to try to knock your ball back towards the goal.

Marc Wallace says:

April 30, 2004 at 10:07 am

I prefer the excitement of rock, paper, scissors.

http://www.worldrps.com/

The stickers are especially creative.

Mike Dunn says:

April 30, 2004 at 10:13 am

Extreme croquet

… a curious game that involves hitting people for no readily apparent reason and then running away.

travis says:

April 30, 2004 at 10:58 am

Back in my high school days I used to work at the St. Bonaventure dining hall. We used to have a sport called "Freestyle Dishwashing". It was loads of fun ;-) It basically just involved loading the different dishes/pans onto the dishwasher into intricate patterns on in remarkable quantities.

Keith Moore [exmsft] says:

May 1, 2004 at 12:48 pm

I misread the title of this article. I thought it was Extreme Crochet…

The Old New Thing says:

May 1, 2004 at 4:16 pm

If I meant crochet I would have written crochet.

Richard says:

May 5, 2004 at 10:36 am

Sounds like a lightweight version of what I and friends used to play at school (in 6th form, think seniors in US high school).

Hoops over rabbit holes were a favourite, or a couple of yards up a 45 degree bank.

We stopped when no-one could handle the combination of bank and rabbit hole…

Date:	April 30, 2004 / year-entry #167
Tags:	non-computer
Orig Link:	https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040430-00/?p=39573
Comments:	7
Summary:	This week, Only a Game covered the sport of Extreme Croquet. Still doesn't hold a candle to Extreme Ironing, though.