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A wooden carrom board on a sunny café terrace table with black and cream coins ringed around the red queen and a striker about to hit, beside iced teas and bougainvillea

Flick Board

Chess, cards, and board games

By Mango Mallet · 124 plays

Carrom on a café terrace. Flick the striker to pocket your coins, cover the queen and beat three computer regulars or a friend, then try 32 trick shots across four seasonal boards.

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About the game

Carrom was the first game any of us were properly competitive at. We put the board on a café terrace and gave you three regulars to beat. Flick Board is carrom for one finger, set on a sunny outdoor café terrace. Slide your striker along the baseline, pull back like a catapult and let go. Every coin, cushion and pocket follows real physics, so a gentle tap and a full-power break behave just as you would expect. Pocket all nine of your coins before your opponent does. White coins are marked with rings and dark coins with spokes, so you can always tell them apart. The red queen, marked with a crown, is worth three points, but only if you cover her by pocketing one of your own coins straight after. Pocket the striker and it is a foul: one of your coins goes back to the centre. Play the café regulars: Milo the cat plays for fun, Juno the fox likes a cushion shot, and Professor Hoot rarely misses. Each one aims by trying out real shots, so harder opponents pick better lines and miss less. Or pass the device to a friend for a two-player game, each shooting from their own side. Then try 32 trick shots, from a first easy flick to bank shots, narrow gates and queen covers. Clear them within par for three stars. Stars and wins open three more boards, Lemon parasol, Maple deck and Lantern frost, each with its own wood, markings and terrace.

How to play

Drag the striker sideways (or use the slider) to place it on your baseline. Then press on the striker, pull back away from where you want to shoot and let go: the longer the pull, the harder the shot. The aim guide shows the line, and the ring shows the power. Pocket your own coins (white rings for you, dark spokes for the other side). Pocket the queen (crown) and then one of your coins on the next shot to cover her. Pocketing the striker is a foul. Keyboard: left and right arrows move the striker, A and D turn the aim, W and S (or up and down) set the power, Space or Enter shoots, Escape pauses.

Devices
desktop, mobile, tablet
Orientation
any

Content notes

No violence, text chat, ads or purchases. Gentle café sounds that can be turned off, and motion that can be reduced in settings.

Screenshots

Mid-match against Professor Hoot on the autumn Maple deck board: the player pulls back the striker like a catapult, and a dotted aim guide and power ring show the line to a white coin near the corner pocketTwo players sharing one screen on the snowy Lantern frost board: the dark player aims from the top baseline with the guide lined up on a dark coin, and each player’s pocketed coins are counted on their own cardTrick shot 26, Ice rink queen: bank off a cushion, pocket the queen and cover her. A hint traces the striker’s path off the side cushion, and a card shows two to four shots allowed for the starsThe trick shots screen: 32 puzzles on four seasonal boards, each with its number, name, star rating and par, the next one outlined, and later puzzles locked until earlier ones are doneThe boards screen: four café carrom boards for spring, summer, autumn and winter, each with its own wood, markings and terrace, three open and the frosty winter board locked until 54 stars or a win against the hard opponentA phone in portrait playing against Milo on the spring Blossom terrace board: a thumb pulls the striker back with the aim guide and power ring showing, with the player cards above and below the board

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