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The Game of Shuffleboard

Table shuffleboard is a game in which players push metal-and-plastic weighted pucks (also called weights) down a long and smooth wooden table into a scoring area at the opposite end of the table. Shooting is performed with the hand directly, as opposed to deck shuffleboard's use of cue sticks.

Suffleboard Tables

Shuffleboard tables vary in length, usually between 9 and 22 feet. They are at least 20 inches wide. Tables are intended to be kept level, but any given table may have its own slight slope, adding an extra challenge. In order to decrease friction, the table is periodically sprinkled liberally with tiny, sand-like beads of silicone (often referred to as shuffleboard wax even though silicone is not a wax). These beads act like ball bearings, letting a puck slide down the table a great distance with only a slight push.

Each end of the table is divided into three scoring sections by straight lines across the width of the table. The scoring sections extend from the very edge of either end of the table towards the middle of the table, covering approximately one-third of the length of the table. The table is surrounded by a gutter, or "alley". Pucks that accidentally fall, or are knocked, into a gutter are out of play for the rest of the round.