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Pitchnut is a wooden tabletop game of French Canadian origins, similar to carrom, crokinole and pichenotte, with mechanics that lie somewhere between pocket billiards and air hockey.[1]
Unlike with other wooden board games, there are no records of pitchnut being mass-produced; all existing boards are handmade. Although Pitchnut is not a patented game and is in the public domain, the names "Pitchnut"[2][3] and "Pichenotte" have been trademarked.[4]
In French-speaking areas of Canada, the game is called pichenotte, which is French for "flick." There are several other disk-flicking games which are also referred to as 'pichenotte' by French speakers. Many modern boards are in use, made mostly by Lee Larcheveque, and before him, by Achille Scalabrini, in Sainte-Edwidge-de-Clifton, Quebec, Canada. The game is common on the farming villages near Coaticook, Quebec, Canada; in Maine;[5] and in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.
- ^ "Pitchnut game fun and easy to learn". Yorkton This Week. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ Larcheveque, Lee. "Pitchnut: The fast, fun, finger-flicking game". Pitchnut.com. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
- ^ Sean, Austin. "Systembretter". Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "History of the Game". Pichenotte.com. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
- ^ "L/A Poutine Feast-ival set for today with food, music and pichenotte". Lewiston Sun Journal. September 8, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2023.