O, I wish I was in the land of Karom!

National Review, June 2, 2008 by R. Graham Daniell

In May 5's "Week," you address Muslim pubs in Great Britain. In listing the entertainment available, you mention karom boards, and offer the aside: "We don't know either."

I grew up in South Georgia playing that game. It is played on a rigid, horizontal board, about three feet square, with pockets at each corner. A karom is a round, wooden circle about one and a half inches in diameter and about half an inch thick. Each of the two players has a different color of karoms.

There are also "shooter" karoms, of yet another color. Each player shoots by thumping his shooter with his index finger. You can shoot repeatedly as long as you sink an opposing karom with each shot. The winner is the player who sinks his opponent's karoms first.

R. Graham Daniell

Metter, Georgia