You Gotta Pack A Pucket Or Two...

 

No, not a typo! Pucket describes itself as a frantic dexterity game, full of finger-flicking-fun. 

It also claims to be "The World's No. 1 Elasticated Table Game"

I cannot quite work out if that means a table game involving elastic, or a game involving an elasticated table. Or both. Anyhow, it is enormous fu - Steph and Gaz gave this to Liz and Jon last Christmas. 

But as with many such games, the heavy wooden board is much more durable than the corrugated cardboard box in which it is packaged.

And the table is beautifully made- with a wooden surround and green baize base, plus wooden pucks. The two elastic straps are fixed to strong wooden pins on either side. Liz and Jon requested a bag in which to store the table, plus the small bag containing the pucks and the instructions.

I had some Liberty print fabric in my stash and also a long strip of fleecy woollen curtain interlining. The print was given to me by someone in Dorset - the lining was in the 'free' box outside a posh curtain shop in Aylsham. I went in and checked it was free "Yes, it is too narrow to be useful" they said.

I made a really simple bag, with two carry handles, and put a double layer of lining fabric to cushion the table [4 layers on the base bto cushion those big knobbly pins] On the outside I added a pocket with a velcro closure to hold the bag of accessories.

A late Christmas gift, but one I hope the family will find useful. 

You can watch the Pucket video here. I love the fact that this is a Fairtrade product from the Asha workshop. I have some wooden angels on my Christmas tree which came from there in 1978!

And does anybody know what is the world's No. 2 elasticated table game might be? Is there a second one?