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Let the Brazilian Adventure Begin!

We are proud and excited to announce that our newest licencee has launched in Brazil! So for the first time ever, Carrooka is being made in South America Please meet Jose, we’ve loved getting to know him over the past few months while he learns all there is to know about making top-quality Carrooka boards. In keeping with our philosophy of giving licences to small family run operations, Jose and his wife will be making every board by hand and we hope you agree they look stunning! We wish Jose all the luck in the world with his Carrooka adventure and we hope that you’ll support his endeavours if you live in Brazil and are looking to join the Carrooka revolution! You can buy directly from Jose’s website https://www.bobmarkgames.com.br/

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Carrooka is back on Kickstart

Carrooka is coming back home!

You asked! Fire Newt are delivering! When Jack and I stepped back from making standard Carrooka boards at the end of May, there were shouts and cries of “why isn’t Carrooka made in Britain anymore?” And we listened. We had carefully selected our licensed makers in Canada, Hungary and India because of their ability to produce beautiful products and to make them available worldwide. They are doing an incredible job at growing the Carrooka revolution, but we had hugely under-estimated demand for a homegrown Carrooka board. Well, we’re pleased and proud to announce that an established British company call Fire Newt are stepping in to fill that chasm. After lots of collaboration, trips to Leek for training and huge amounts of planning, Matt and John, a father and son team from Peterorough, will soon be making the Carrooka boards that you know and love. But before they do that, they are launching with a brand-new version of our game! Fire Newt’s Kickstarter campaign is going live very soon, and you’ll be able to pledge for Carrooka Compact, which allows you to play both snooker and pool variations on a compact 68cm board. Jack and I have tested out Carrooka Compact and we love it. The long-shots are not quite as long, but there is still plenty of challenge to engage, frustrate and excite. Making it perfect for families and ideal for bars and cafes.  Thinking back to 2021 when we first launched Carrooka with a Kickstart campaign, we remember the nerves and trepidation that we felt. We know that Matt and John are going to be filled with those same emotions right now as they launch their campaign, we also know that you lovely bunch will give them loads of support! Please follow their Kickstart here and please give them a follow on Insta too! John and Matt, we wish you all the luck in the world, we’re delighted to have you on board and excited to see you take Carrooka to a whole new level!

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Carrooka has landed in the EU

Have we got news for EU?! Carrooka has finally landed in mainland Europe, we know you’ve all been waiting for ages, thank you for your patience! You can now head to Carrooka to buy the full range of Carrooka products, made by fairtrade makers in India. We hope that you’re just as excited as we are!

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New Carrooka Stockists

After 5 years of making every Carrooka board ourselves, Jack and I are stepping back from making our standard Carrooka boards and accessories, we are now only making bespoke hardwood tournament boards to order. We have a few Pool8 and Carrom360 boards left to buy, but I am afraid that all of the Classic Green and Natural Birch boards are now sold. All Carrooka products are (or soon will be) available from a range of carefully selected licensed makers and retailers. Please contact them directly for all Carrooka product enquiries. For UK orders, please visit: Carrooka Classic Green – The Original Spinning Snooker Pool Board Game For overseas orders, please visit:  www.carrookaboards.com or www.woodestic.eu For Australia, please visit: Carrooka Classic Green – Gameology We will be adding more options soon, including better availability for the EU, so please follow us on socials @carrooka or check this blog for updates. Thank you for following our journey as we move to a new era for Carrooka!

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We’re celebrating with free delivery this weekend!

That’s it! We’ve made our last (standard) Carrooka board!  We’re heading off to UK Games Expo for the weekend, and when we return we will be working on a part-time basis and only making our stunning hardwood tournament boards (these will be available for worldwide delivery). We still have a limited stock of boards available, which will be ready for dispatch over the next few weeks, but when they’re gone they’re gone!  To celebrate, we’re offering FREE UK SHIPPING on all Carrooka products ordered from this website for this weekend only. Offer ends 2nd June at 9am.  Our much loved birch plywood Carrooka boards will be available worldwide from a number of different outlets when our boards have all sold, please follow for news and updates! 

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It’s the final countdown!

With less than two weeks to go before we end the production of our standard Carrooka board range here in our Staffordshire workshop, we thought it was time for a quick update and some news about where to buy Carrooka boards once we stop selling them. We are fast running out of boards! Natural birch boards will sell out within days. We have better stock levels of Classic Green and Pool8. There are a few Carrom360 boards left and we also have a Pool8 board in green and natural birch. On May 29th we will be at UK Games Expo at the NEC so we expect to sell out of all remaining boards while we’re there. If Carrooka has winked at you for a while, it’s time to get your order in for UK delivery! When we have finished making our boards, we will be continuing to make high-end, hardwood, bespoke tournament boards on a part time basis. These will be available for world-wide delivery. More news on that coming soon. Our standard range of Carrooka boards, the ones you all love, will be available for worldwide delivery, from a range of carefully selected international licensees. Their boards are all beautifully made and are of comparable or better quality than the ones we have been making ourselves for the past five years. Two of our international makers have been up and running for just over a year: www.carrookaboards.com are based in Canada, they make the full range of Carrooka boards for worldwide delivery. www.woodestic.eu make Carrooka in their own beautiful house-style and also delivery worldwide. For everywhere else, it is going to take a little while for all the ducks to get in line, so there may be gaps in availability until everything settles. Disrupted shipping routes caused by international troubles will cause some delays. UK customers! You will be able to order Carrooka boards from Oddballs they will have boards in the UK made by a team of amazing carpenters (trained by us) who work for a fairtrade organisation in India. Also in the UK, you can order from Masters of Games. They will hold stocks made by a variety of our licensed makers. We’re very excited to let you know that there is also a shipment of boards on the way from India to The Netherlands. When they have landed, the full range of our boards will be much more easily available in the EU… please watch this space for updates. Equally excitingly… there is also a small batch of boards on a boat from Canada to Australia, so they will be available very soon. As soon as we sell out of our own boards, you will notice that this website will completely change. It will become more of a signpost so that you can easily find the Carrooka board that is closest to you for easy ordering. Please bear with us while we make that happen! What with trying to make as many boards as possible before we stop at the end of May, getting ready to attend UKGamesExpo and re-vamping the website, it’s a really busy time for the two of us! There will be more from us soon, including some sneak peeks of some stunning new tournament boards! Thanks as ever for all your support, we’d be nothing without you!

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Big news from Carrooka HQ

This one is a big announcement that we’re slightly nervously excited to make, it’s especially important for anyone in the UK who is keen on Carrooka! On May 31st 2021 we launched Carrooka to the world, not knowing where the adventure would take us and you blew us away! We never really expected that we would both end up making thousands of Carrooka boards in our little workshop and that the Carrooka revolution would spread to so many countries of the world. So before we get to the BIG news, we would like to thank each and every one of you for your support and enthusiasm – we couldn’t have got this far without you! And one last thing, before we get to the BIG bit… Carrooka is NOT GOING AWAY, it is growing and the business is stronger than ever before. But on May 31st this year, exactly 5 years to the day since we launched, Jack and I (George) will be stopping production of our standard Carrooka boards. We’ve loved carefully crafting each and every game, but our bodies are telling us, it’s time to let someone else meet demand. We will still be running the business and Jack will be dedicating his time to making truly special, stunning bespoke tournament boards on a part time basis- so there’s no retirement for us yet! We have more exciting announcements to follow, including all details of how you can buy Carrooka, wherever you live, once we stop making them… you’ll have to be patient for those details- there’s some great news to come! For now, if Carrooka has ever winked at you, if you are teetering on the edge of making that purchase, and if you would like to buy directly from the inventors, the time to do so is NOW! We will be working our socks off to make as many boards as possible over the next two months, but we will have to close the order books when they’re full, so please do not delay. If you already have a board and you know your friends, family or local pub have been thinking about it, please let them know that there is limited time to have a board made by the designers themselves. More details to follow so please keep an eye on us! For now…it’s time for us to flick off!

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Training the Asha team

Seeking worldwide stockists

Back in April this year, we (Jack and George) headed off for an exciting adventure. We boarded a plane at Heathrow and nine hours later we found ourselves in Mumbai, where we were greeted by one of the team from Asha Handicrafts Association.  Asha are an incredible fairtrade organisation who make games and homeware for worldwide distribution. Their skill levels are incredible; but what is more exciting to us is that every artisan receives healthcare, education and opportunities for their families as well as professional development opportunities. Despite no sleep whatsoever, we headed straight to the workshop, which gave us 45 minutes to have our first glimpse of Asia. It was all unfamiliar until we walked into the workshop, where we immediately felt right at home! The team were brilliant to work with. They were already great carpenters; we just need to spend a week with them to help them to become great Carrooka makers. Fast forward six months- Asha have been practicing Carrooka fabrication and honing their skills. They are now fully kitted up and ready to add Carrooka to their portfolio. We’re so excited about it all- we always knew Carrooka is a good game, but now it is a game that does good! Knowing that every board sold by the Asha team will help people and possibly even help to reduce some of the inequality that exists in this world, just fills our hearts with joy! Asha are now able to take trade orders from shops, wholesalers and distributors worldwide. We are really keen to secure wholesale orders from the EU and Australia as we have supply gaps there, and we know we have flickers waiting to buy Carrooka boards. If you are interested to find out more, please email us at hello@carrooka.com

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Pool8 League at The Turnpike

New venue shoutout! Who doesn’t love a good competition?! Nothing says Friday night like a pint and a bit of healthy competitive pool with friends. We’re delighted that The Turnpike, Ryknild Street, Lichfield, UK, now has- not one, but two Carrooka Pool8 boards. You can ask for the counters at anytime to get some practice in, but Friday nights is league night at The Turnpike. If you’re local, why not call in for a flick?! There’s lots more details on The Turnpike’s social media pages. https://www.turnpikelichfield.co.uk/ We’re looking forward to the day when pubs begin to challenge one another- if your pub fancies taking on The Turnpike, why not get in touch with them to throw down the gauntlet?! And if you haven’t got Carrooka Pool8 boards in your pub yet, what are you waiting for? The ultimate in space-saving traditional pub games that entertain your customers while they sup!

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carrooka tournament board

The Rolls-Royce of Carrooka- available now

This is as rare as hen’s teeth! We have a stunning Carrooka tournament board available to buy, it’s live in our shop for immediate dispatch to a lucky UK customer. You can see it here: Beautiful oak, classic green tournament board- skip the waiting list! – Carrooka What’s a tournament board? Well to start with, it’s bigger, the overall diameter is 91cm making it 10cm larger than a standard board. That may not sound a lot, but 10cm on the diameter of a circle makes a huge difference (probably something to do with Pi, but maths isn’t my strong point!) If you’re a snooker fan, you’ll know the difference between playing on a full sized snooker table compared to a table in a pub… it suddenly feels MASSIVE and that’s the same with a Carrooka tournament board. Additionally, the solid hardwood rail gives it a very traditional, luxury feel and the additional weight makes the rotating mechanism as smooth as silk. Usually we only make these boards to order, but we wanted to film our making process for training purposes, so here we go… one stunning oak railed tournament board, and it can be yours within a week. We include all counter variations, a triangle and a scoreboard. It’s perfect for the serious game player, or a pub or club. It’s a proper collectors piece, signed by Jack, that will last for generations to come!

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