Talk:Shuffleboard

message: At the risk of hopelessly muddling things, the game of deck shuffleboard and Floor Shuffleboard bear some obvious and important differences.  Deck Shuffleboard is played on wooden decks of ships, and features a semicircular scoring field than floor shuffleboard.  Floor Shuffleboard is played on a concrete surface, largely in North America, and features a somewhat triangular scoring field.
Originally, the game was played solely on ships crossing the Atlantic, with equipment that was initially intended for other purposes.  In 1912 or 1913 the game made the transition to land, with the first courts being constructed in Daytona, FL.   Additional courts were built in Williams Park(St Petersburg, FL), and a second Club formed.  It was at this second Shuffleboard Club that the rules of (floor) Shuffleboard were codified in the 1920s.
Cpeterkelly 05:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  At the Risk of Confusing things further 

message: Yes, sjoelbak is a different game, it has compartments rather than zones for the pucks to go into. see mastersgames:  . I am not sure what the 'official' rules are, but that site has a good set. It is traditional in our family that you can retrieve a puck to play again if you can reach it from under the bridge but thats probably not an official rule.
82.152.3.233 01:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sjoelbak is indeed a different game 

message: >...completely within the trapezoidal second tier of the triangle, it is worth eight points; and completely within the trapezoidal third tier of the triangle, seven points
If it is correct that the puck must not be touching the center line of these two sections to score, this is unclear in the current wording. TheHYPO (talk) 06:12, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lines 

message: That's not Middle English, yo.  That's early Modern spellings of Modern English.  Even the Wikipedia article on MidE dates it as ending in the 15th century.  This article is misleading on that regard, so I'm going to change it.65.117.234.99 (talk) 15:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ods Bodkins! We cannot change the original quote no matter how "bad" the english. For interpretation however, "BY the King's grace" makes more sense, becaue in those times, either the monarch or the diety was given credit for nearly everything. For example, in those times, after a long journey I could say "I arrived safely only BY the Grace of God.", thus giving God credit. PoorWIliam (talk) 05:25, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Middle English" quote 

message: 1.) What's the deal with the 10-off field? What does it do? Does it lose the respective team ten points? I've read through the article twice, I don't think there's any explanation.
2.) The "strategy" section is written in the 2nd person. That's not encyclopaedic style.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.204.101.188 (talk) 19:29, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two things 

message: Biscuit and tang are mentioned in the last sentence under Equipment, but they are not defined. Shouldn't they be?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.81.73 (talk) 16:54, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biscuit and tang