Woohoo!! My partner Kevin (yup my hubby!) and I won the blind draw on Sunday! Shibby! We only had 8 players. Well, technically we had 7 players but we talked Buddy into playing to make 8.
We probably had no less than 6 ties in the final game. Kevin would score one so I wouldn't have the hammer and Mark who I was playing against would tie it up with one. It went back and forth forever it seemed. But finally Kevin and I pulled it out.
To make the day even better (well, for me at least) I won 3 Strikes!
It's been several weeks where we have been struggling to get blind draw players so I don't know how long our Sunday blind draws are going to last. But it was fun while it lasted.
This Wednesday is our final game of the first half of the season and for the 3rd week in a row we play at home. We play the Stafford Sandblasters and I probably don't need to say it but, I want to win!!
Go BarFlies!
No. My partner Janet and I did not win the blind draw. No. I did not win 3 Strikes. I think I've found out why I don't win 3 Strikes though. My first round I scored a 15! My first puck went down to a 3 so then I shot my multiplier. It landed on a 3 too!! I used all of my good shots on the first round. I did however win a shotgun pot for $48 so it wasn't a bad day.
Go BarFlies!!
My husband Kevin and I host a shuffleboard blind draw at the bar we play for (did I mention that we are on separate teams). Anyone who wants to play pays $5 and we draw cards to partner up. Recently we've only had about 8 people playing but that's okay. You only have to win one game and you're in the money.
We've started to play a game called 3 Strikes afterwards. 3 Strikes is a lagging game (which I'm not very good at, I'm a knock-off player). In this game you have three pucks of one color - your scorers, and one of the opposite color - your multiplier. The object of this game is to score higher than the person in front of you and if you don't you get a strike. We also use the long or deep foul line for this game which can make it a little trickier. Another aspect of the game is that wherever the pucks are, that's where you throw from. If you play this game long enough, you'll start to favor certain sides of certain boards.
The first person throws. Let's say his name is Bob. Bob throws three blue pucks and they are all in the one point range. Then he throws his red puck and it lands on a two. So Bob has scored a six. Mary is after Bob and needs a seven to not get a strike. She scores a four so gets her first strike. Now Sarah is after Mary and needs a five and so on and so on. The last person standing takes the pot.
Of course higher scores are decidedly hard to beat (well for me) but I would say the hardest score to get is a four. You have to keep all of your scorers on the table past the foul line and get one all the way up to a two. Like with a regular shuffleboard game, there are lots of thank yous thrown around when low scores are scored.
Come to think of it, I don't think I have ever won 3 Strikes. Maybe today will be my lucky day.
Record:
0-1
Go BarFlies!
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