1) Canadian invention 
Crokinole (l {respell|KROH|ki-nohl}) is a dexterity board game similar in various ways to pitchnut, carrom, marbles, and shove ha`penny, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to have their discs land in the higher-scoring regions of the bo....