Sjoelen at Beerblefish Taproom

Overview

Sjoelen is a highly assesible table game that originated in the Netherlands. It has similarities with other shuffleboard games, bar billiards and curling, but doesn’t appear to be directly related to any of them. The game is also popular in Germany, where it is known as Jakkolo. In recent years, its popularity has spread throughout Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, as well as to countries further afield, leading to a World Cup tournament taking place every two years; the last in Strasbourg, France. The aim is to slide 30 wooden discs along a board (sjoelbak) and get each one into one of the four slots at the far end. The slots have different points allocated to them and there’s an incentive to go for both low and high scoring slots – if you get a disc in each slot, you get double points for those four discs.