Rule Change!

After discussion, we have decided to atleast try the "ball in hand" type of croquet, which actually is the official version. While our way demands almost exact accuracy, there rarely is the action that the game is named after (croquet). With trying out the rules we have shunned I expect a few things with happen: 1) The games are going to be longer, since everyone with be croqueting everyone else with all the vengence of a 20 year-old girl has towards any other girl prettier than her. 2) Fist fights may be on the rise, this though is outlawed by the etique rules. 3) It throughs even more uncertainity into a game where the last ball can go to first in one turn.

Heres the explanation from the Croquet Assoc. of America:

The striker earns one bonus shot if the striker ball scores a wicket or hits the turning stake. The striker earns two bonus shots if the striker ball hits another ball (a "roquet") (but see the Exceptions below).

The first of these two shots may be taken in any of four ways:

From a mallet-head distance or less away from the ball that was hit ("taking a mallet-head")
From a position in contact with the ball that was hit, with the striker ball held steady by the striker's foot or hand (a "foot shot" or "hand shot")
From a position in contact with the ball that was hit, with the striker ball not held by foot or hand (a "croquet shot")
From where the striker ball stopped after the roquet.
The second bonus shot after a roquet is an ordinary shot played from where the striker ball came to rest, called a "continuation shot". Bonus shots may not be accumulated. Upon earning a bonus shot by scoring a wicket, hitting the turning stake, or roqueting another ball, any bonus shot previously earned is forfeited. If a ball roquets a ball and in that same stroke the striker ball hits another ball, the second ball hit is not a roquet and remains where it comes to rest (with no deadness incurred on that ball).


Basically, when you roquet someone, you can pick up your ball and croquet them with your first bonus shot. You then play as normally. READ: If someone hits your ball, they can choose to pick up their ball and place it to hit you with a croquet shot.

Good luck hunting.