What is Cross Country Croquet?

• Cross Country Croquet^* is a mutation/advancement on the game you see being played in Heathers. You might call it a blending of croquet, golf, and miniature golf. Most have played it, in its simplest form, without even knowing it. In its most basic form, it simply means breaking the standard course pattern used in official croquet. Not only do you want to put the wickets in as non-geometrical an arrangement as possible, but, in fact, you want to put them in as annoying a configuration as possible, making full use of natural obstacles. The most important factor in a game of cross country croquet is really where you play. In our experience the best courses can be made on extremely hilly cemeteries (blasphemy can be overlooked for the sake of quality recreational entertainment). Once you get good at designing your courses with absurd distances to cover, large and obnoxious obstacles to overcome, and extreme differences in altitude to deal with, you'll find that the character of the game changes drastically. The most extreme form of cross country croquet is a sport we've dubbed as Around the World Cross Country Croquet^*.

*patent pending

Rules of the game

Techniques: help with your game

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Last Updated March 24, 1998 by loki