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The current Women's Association Croquet World Champion (2023) is Debbie Lines of England. As of 2023, the Golf Croquet World Champion was Matthew Essick (USA), and the Women's Golf Croquet World Champion was Jamie Gumbrell (Australia). However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy; successful players (in all versions other than golf croquet) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents. Let’s move on to how the climate will affect a pool table in the garage. Finally, the temperature in the garage may be uncomfortable (or unbearable) during much of the year, depending on where you live. The way croquet is depicted in paintings and books says much about popular perceptions of the game, though little about the reality of modern play. The toning is not only for the arms of the person but also the way he stretches his legs, this would give a proper thigh movement and result in the toning of this muscle as a result of that.

H. G. Wells wrote The Croquet Player which uses croquet as a metaphor for the way in which people confront the very problem of their own existence. The cover of the 1971 Genesis album Nursery Cryme shows Cynthia, a character in the song "Musical Box" holding a croquet mallet with a few heads on the playing field including another character of the song Henry's head that she removed with said mallet. In the 1951 Woody Woodpecker animated short Wicket Wacky, Woody sneaks into a croquet field to play, while a gopher bothered by the noise tries to stop him. The image's caption describes the game as "a curious ancient pastime", confirming that croquet games were not new in early-19th-century England. Croquet is popular pastime of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina characters. In Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining, the main character, Jack Torrance, uses a croquet mallet to chase and attack the other characters. The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the 1660-1685 reign of Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland and was played under the name of paille-maille (among other spellings, today usually pall-mall), derived ultimately from Latin words for 'ball and mallet' (the latter also found in the name of the earlier French game, jeu de mail).

If playing individually (Cutthroat), what is billiards the first player to stake out is the winner. Heathers are playing croquet to hit Veronica on the head. An alternative endgame is "poison": in this variant, a player who has scored the last wicket but not hit the starting stake becomes a "poison ball", which may eliminate other balls from the game by roqueting them. The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations, which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton. In this version of croquet, there are nine wickets, two stakes, and up to six balls. Egypt in top position, and with Spain at number six. In April 2013, Reg Bamford of South Africa beat Ahmed Nasr of Egypt in the final of the Golf Croquet World Championship in Cairo, becoming the first person to simultaneously hold the title in both association croquet and golf croquet. At the Golf Croquet World Team Championships, eight nations contest the Openshaw Shield. Other nations compete in Tier 2 and Tier 3 World Team Championships. The most prestigious international team competition in association croquet is the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield.

Teams are promoted and relegated between the lower tiers, but there is no relegation to or promotion from the MacRobertson Shield. About 200 croquet clubs across the United States are members of the United States Croquet Association. Cairo: The Croquet Association. The world's top 10 association croquet players as of October 2023 were Robert Fletcher (Australia), Robert Fulford (England), Paddy Chapman (New Zealand), Jamie Burch (England), Reg Bamford (South Africa), Matthew Essick (USA), Mark Avery (England), Simon Hockey (Australia), Harry Fisher (England), and Jose Riva (Spain). In 1868, the first croquet all-comers meet was held at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, and in the same year, the All England Croquet Club was formed at Wimbledon, London. Had such a table been maintained the 33 year span in the First Class game would also have caught the eye. Records show a game called "crookey", similar to croquet, being played at Castlebellingham in County Louth, Ireland, in 1834, which was introduced to Galway in 1835 and played on the bishop's palace garden, and in the same year to the genteel Dublin suburb of Kingstown (today Dún Laoghaire) where it was first spelled as "croquet". The 13th Earl developed a variation on croquet named Captain Moreton's Eglinton Castle croquet, which had small bells on the eight hoops "to ring the changes", two pegs, a double hoop with a bell, and two tunnels for the ball to pass through.