Jack

Hello All We’re incredibly excited to officially announce that Carrooka is available in North America again, and it will be crafted by some very experienced makers. This is the beginning of a fitting new partnership with Jeremy and Elaine Tracey.Their family is known around the world for manufacturing top quality Crokinole boards – you may know them as Tracey Boards. Their reputation combined with their dedication to helping build communities through game play, and their commitment to outstanding customer service aligns perfectly with our own. Starting now, Carrooka boards for North America will be manufactured by the Tracey family. This partnership marks the start of an exciting new chapter. While Carrooka and Tracey Boards are two separate products, they are now connected by a shared love of craftsmanship and flicking game play. From the moment we first connected with Jeremy and Elaine, it was clear we were speaking the same language — one of passion, play,and creating memorable moments around the table. We couldn’t be more excited to grow the Carrooka community with their help. Want to be among the first to own a North American–crafted Carrooka board?Visit Carrooka | Spinning Tabletop Game – Skill, Strategy, Fun – Carrooka Boards to learn more. We’re expecting demand to be very high, so please don’t delay, but please also have patience! Quality products take time to make:-) The last jigsaw piece of our current expansion plans will fall into place, when later this year, our newest partners, Asha Handicrafts launch their fairtrade Indian made Carrooka board. They will be supplying distributors and wholesalers around the world. We’ve just returned from a week in India to train up their team of experienced woodworkers, so we know they’re up for the challenge, but it will take a few months for them to be up and running, please watch this space! Thank you, as always, for being part of this journey.Jack & George- Directors, Carrooka Games Ltd (but really just carpenters!) Take care all George and Jack

Hello Everyone We’re happily writing to you again with a Carrooka update about international availability. The first of our new licensed makers has launched! Woodestic is a Hungarian brand with worldwide distribution, but we’ll let Péter Karcagi, founder of Woodestic explain all – “We make handcrafted wooden board games, like Crokinole, Carrom, or Shuffleboard. We love sparking joy in families through beautifully made wooden board games – creating WOW moments so real human connections can thrive in this digital world. We believe that life’s ultimate goal is to have fulfilling experiences. Since introducing Woodestic Crokinole boards in 2012, we have continuously improved our products’ quality and appeal. We take pride in crafting each unique board. It was an exciting part of our last year when George and Jack approached us to make Woodestic Carrooka, since we are in the middle of extending our portfolio with more exciting wooden games. We put our heart into it to make it as good as possible, keeping the original features but extending the experience!” The Woodestic Carrooka can now be pre-ordered! Woodestic will start shipping orders in the order they arrive from May 12th onwards. For worldwide shipping, order from here: https://woodestic.com/shop/woodestic-carrooka/  For shipping in the EU, order from here: https://woodestic.eu/shop/woodestic-carrooka/  We’re very excited that Woodestic have taken on this challenge, and we love that glossy glow they’ve achieved on the playing surface! We hope you love it too😊 Please don’t forget, we have two more makers to follow and as soon as we can share their details we will. It’s likely that our Canadian partner will launch soon, their boards will be more akin to the one’s we make ourselves. Later in the year we anticipate our fairtrade Indian partners will be ready, their boards will be a good quality value proposition. Jack and I are flying out to India on Sunday, to spend some time helping to train the team of experienced carpenters in the fine art of Carrooka board making! With that in mind, please accept our apologies; we are struggling to keep up with all the lovely emails and messages we are receiving at the moment. If you have enquiries about the Woodestic Carrooka boards, please reach out to them directly. For everything else, please bear with us, we will reply when we can! With best wishes as ever George (and Jack too, he’s busy in the workshop making Carrooka boards!)

Since 2021 we’ve supplied 34 countries of the world with Carrooka boards, but that all changed at the end of 2021 when we decided to restrict supply of boards to the UK only. There are a few reasons for this, but it’s mostly due to value for money for our customers. An American Carrooka player paid £98 for shipping, a European flicker paid £48 plus the same amount again (at least) for import duties and taxes. Feedback indicated that you all think our handmade boards are value for money (especially considering the board will give you a lifetime of play), but that you didn’t want to pay so much shipping in order to get your hands on a board. So we decided to seek international partners who can make and sell Carrooka boards around the world. If we’re successful it should mean that there is a local solution for you, no matter where you are. At the time of writing, we’re in talks with a couple of makers. We’re certain that we want to maintain the quality of our Carrooka boards, no matter who is making them, so we’re being a bit fussy about who we talk to! It’s early days but the indicators are good and we hope to have others making boards at some point in 2025. If you live anywhere other than the UK and you would like to join the Carrooka revolution, please email us at hello@carrooka.com with the subject line “tell me when I can order for international delivery” and we’ll add you to our list so that we can let you know hen it’s possible. Please forgive us if we don’t reply to your email… there’s only so many hours in the day! If you’re an overseas maker who is interested to join our Carrooka journey, please feel free to get in touch!

We’ve never had a Carrooka newsletter; partly because we get slightly annoyed by the constant bombardment of our own inbox with “newsletters” that are actually sales pushes masquerading as news- but mostly because we doubt are own ability to produce regular, interesting news as we’re fully occupied making Carrooka boards in the workshop instead of sitting at a desk! So, we thought starting an informal blog would give us the chance to provide you all with Carrooka updates when they’re new and exciting, without you having to sign up to anything at all. Feel free to dip into this blog whenever you fancy.We’ll be letting you know about new venues where you can play Carrooka, or upcoming events and competitions. We’ll hopefully be sharing some videos and hints on how to maximise your flicking skills. We’ll also use it as a chance to answer some of your questions around rules, board care etc. Feel free to let us know what you would like to hear about or to comment on what we’ve written, we love to hear from you! Best wishes for nowJack and George (who is really a Georgina) Furnival- inventors and makers ofCarrooka