In Southern California, we are lucky enough to get a decent amount of beach days a year. A full day at the beach may mean an hour driving to the beach in the morning and an hour driving home at night, mixed with a full day of activities in between. Along with some fun beach activity including beach volleyball, surfing, frizbee, football, soccer, and the like. We love to end the afternoon with some breezy rook playing.
Surprisingly, playing rook at the beach (while a bit sandy and windy) can be extremely fun. If you are using the regular plastic coated rook cards, you may find the cards don’t last as well near the water, but some nice fully plastic cards will take care of that.
Keeping score can also be a bit difficult as papers may be flying all across the beach if you aren’t careful. There are some simple phone apps out there that can keep score just fine though.
There are two things I never seem to get enough of, that is a day in the sun at the beach, or days where we get to play rook. Mixing the two…priceless.
Looking for true rook players would like to start a national tourney. We love rook and have five teams who love to play in Texas please reply to see what we can get done.
I also am a rook player and have been for many years, I love this game my sister and I played against our husbands and beat them 9 out of ten games.
I would love to play.
National tourney would be fun! I have some connections that would be interested as well. I have seen a number of tournaments for Rook pop up in Kentucky area. Ones like: http://parks.ky.gov/calendar/details/winter-rook-tournament/20646/
Might be of interest to see about connecting with those and seeing if the invite is extended outside of the state.