'Billiard Nicolas' or Puff Billiards
Susan Overton
like old fashioned car horns which are fixed on to swivels at the edge of
the board. Up to four players battle against each other to blow a cork ball
into the goals.
We have a board which is probably about 60 or 70 years old - also the
swivels and two cork balls. Unfortunately all the puffers have perished.
This game is probably French and was still being manufactured in the 1960s.
Does anyone know where I can get hold of the necessary parts? We have this
beautiful mahogany board, seven grandchildren and no means of playing this
excellent family game!
Susan O
Bruno Faidutti
<Susan....@tesco.net> wrote (écrivait) :
It's still manufactured in France by the old Nicolas company, and you can
buy it in a few parisian game shops. Unfortunately, it's a luxuous product
and theredore incredibly expensive. I don't know if it's possible to buy
puffers, and at what price, but you must be ready to pay a very high
price. I can try to inquire for you if you want.
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Bruno Faidutti
124 rue de Belleville
75020 PARIS
faid...@imaginet.fr
http://wwwusers.imaginet.fr/~faidutti/
Steve Burt
>This game is played on a heavy circular board using four "bellows" shaped
>like old fashioned car horns which are fixed on to swivels at the edge of
>the board. Up to four players battle against each other to blow a cork ball
>into the goals.
>
>We have a board which is probably about 60 or 70 years old - also the
>swivels and two cork balls. Unfortunately all the puffers have perished.
>This game is probably French and was still being manufactured in the 1960s.
>
>Does anyone know where I can get hold of the necessary parts? We have this
>beautiful mahogany board, seven grandchildren and no means of playing this
>excellent family game!
Ah yes. Excellent game. If you puff the ball hard enough it whizzes round the outside of the board about 3 times. We had a set at home which one of my sisters has now.
I'm pretty sure then game can accommodate more than 4 players - 6 or 8, depending on how many puffers you have.
I'm not sure what to do about the problem of the perished puffers, though. Do you have the metal nozzles? If so, you might be able to buy a rubber bulb from a horn and fit that to the nozzle.
--
Steve Burt
The moral is to the physical as three is to one
Napoleon
Glenn Kuntz
> This game is played on a heavy circular board using four "bellows" shaped
> like old fashioned car horns which are fixed on to swivels at the edge of
> the board. Up to four players battle against each other to blow a cork ball
> into the goals.
>
> We have a board which is probably about 60 or 70 years old - also the
> swivels and two cork balls. Unfortunately all the puffers have perished.
> This game is probably French and was still being manufactured in the 1960s.
>
> Does anyone know where I can get hold of the necessary parts? We have this
> beautiful mahogany board, seven grandchildren and no means of playing this
> excellent family game!
>
> Susan O
I have 2 versions of this game. One is quite large & heavy as you describe;
there's a photo of one at: http://www.gni.fr/mapage/festi-jeux.html (Le Billard
Nicolas). Unfortunately, I don't read French. Perhaps there's a lead for you
on that page though.
The other I have is a scaled-down version made by Dreuke ca. 1955. I found
neither with puffers, but gravy basters (those big plastic eye-droppers) seem to
work well enough. ;-)
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The CROKINOLE Board
http://www.frontiernet.net/~crokinol
lbg...@hotmail.com
> This game is played on a heavy circular board using four "bellows" shaped
> like old fashioned car horns which are fixed on to swivels at the edge of
> the board. Up to four players battle against each other to blow a cork ball
> into the goals.
>
> We have a board which is probably about 60 or 70 years old - also the
> swivels and two cork balls. Unfortunately all the puffers have perished.
> This game is probably French and was still being manufactured in the 1960s.
>
> Does anyone know where I can get hold of the necessary parts? We have this
> beautiful mahogany board, seven grandchildren and no means of playing this
> excellent family game!
>
> Susan O
lbg...@hotmail.com
www.corkspirit.com A set of 10 will run you about $8 US. LG
helen...@gmail.com
> This game is played on a heavy circular board using four "bellows" shaped
> like old fashioned car horns which are fixed on to swivels at the edge of
> the board. Up to four players battle against each other to blow a cork ball
> into the goals.
>
> We have a board which is probably about 60 or 70 years old - also the
> swivels and two cork balls. Unfortunately all the puffers have perished.
> This game is probably French and was still being manufactured in the 1960s.
>
> Does anyone know where I can get hold of the necessary parts? We have this
> beautiful mahogany board, seven grandchildren and no means of playing this
> excellent family game!
>
> Susan O
helen...@gmail.com
> This game is played on a heavy circular board using four "bellows" shaped
> like old fashioned car horns which are fixed on to swivels at the edge of
> the board. Up to four players battle against each other to blow a cork ball
> into the goals.
>
> We have a board which is probably about 60 or 70 years old - also the
> swivels and two cork balls. Unfortunately all the puffers have perished.
> This game is probably French and was still being manufactured in the 1960s.
>
> Does anyone know where I can get hold of the necessary parts? We have this
> beautiful mahogany board, seven grandchildren and no means of playing this
> excellent family game!
>
> Susan O