Shuffleboard

or Shovelboard, a game played on a smooth floor, as the deck of a ship. Passengers on trans-oceanic steamers while away time by playing the game. Wooden disks are driven from a chalk line by a blow of a crutch-shaped cue toward a diagram of nine numbered squares, and the player whose disks occupy the squares having the highest numbers wins. The game is played also on a flat table with coins for counters. The coin that lies nearest the end of the table without falling off wins.