Acknowledgement: It is with much pleasure that I acknowledge the professional help of Stephen Dimond of
CANVEST. COMmunications Corp. (dims@canvest.com). Stephen took my animations and produced the
excellent images you see below. Stephen is well known also as a croquet player.
 
Example 1
Red takes off from Blue in corner 1 at the start of the turn. Blue leaves the court and Red causes Yellow to run its hoop in order (hoop5). Red and Yellow remain on the court.

  Questions:
  1. Did Red roquet Yellow? 
  2. Can Red now take croquet on Yellow? 
  3. Has Yellow scored its hoop? 
  4. Has the turn ended? Explain and give any Laws references. 
  5. What is to be done with the balls? 
CLICK to access the answer. 
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Example 2: Same as in example 1 above, except that red leaves a still Blue ball.
Questions:
  1. Did Red roquet Yellow? 
  2. Can Red now take croquet on Yellow? 
  3. Has Yellow scored its hoop? 
  4. Has the turn ended? Explain and give any Laws references. 
  5. What is to be done with the balls? 
  6. Is Red responsible for Yellow after it is replaced? 
When you have thought about this, CLICK to access the answer. 
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Example 3: Same as in example 2 above, except that Red leaves the court at the end of the stroke and to be more realistic the hoop should now be taken as 3 back.
Questions:
  1. Did Red roquet Yellow? 
  2. Can Red now take croquet on Yellow? 
  3. Has Yellow scored its hoop? 
  4. Has the turn ended? Explain and give any Laws references. 
  5. Can the opponent waive the fault? 
When you have thought about this, CLICK to access the answer. 
Click for Example 1

This completes the examples
indexed as Hoops 1. To recover
the original, click on Hoops 1.

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