Fort Awesome: Oh Crud

How I love to play crud! It's the most fun game ever!

The tournament Friday was so exciting! We were so nervous too!

Above are our two crud teams! We are so ready! My team had the student wives and the DO wife. We did really well - we got third!! What's awesome about this team as well is that we all learned to play just a month or two ago!! How's that for awesome?

Above is us warming up. You can only shoot from the short ends of the pool table, trying to hit the colored ball with the white one. You want to get the colored ball in a hole to get a strike on the other team. Or you want the ball to stop while the other team is playing offense - they get a strike then too.

Rallying the troops!

This is the serving setup. We are in blue. Kris is blocking the server's view of the colored ball hopefully making it more difficult to hit. When (or if) the server hits the ball, Kris grabs the white ball and tries to hit the colored ball again (maybe into a pocket to get the other team a strike!) If the player with the white ball can't hit the colored one before it stops, that player gets a strike. Three strikes and you're out.

As soon as Kris hits the colored ball, she is done with her turn and the next member of our team rushes in to block the other team trying to hit the ball and then grabs the white ball to play offense if the other team succeeds.

It's a completely impossible game to understand simply upon a verbal explanation. I know I was totally confused until I played it. Just play it and you'll understand! Maybe.

The lineup as we wait for our turn to jump in!