How Many Players Can Play Croquet?

Video Transcript

"Alright in this segment we're going to talk about the number of players, and how to decide who plays which ball and who goes first and it's basically pretty simple. You can have between two and four players. With the set that I have, if you have six players, well you're going to need more mallets and more balls. I have four mallets and four balls. So if you have two players, basically with two players each would have a mallet and then you would play cool and hot balls and each player would play two balls. One player would play the black and blue balls, and the other player would play the hot balls, which would be red and yellow. Now to determine who goes first, you could flip a coin and see who went first, but basically what you do is you follow in the order of the stake. The stake says blue goes first, then red, then black and then yellow and so what you do is blue would start off by the stake and they would hit first and then red would hit and then black would hit. Now, if you have four players, well the way that works is you have two teams and you do it the same way. One team has blue and black, the cool colors and one team has red and yellow and the first player on the first team who is blue would go and the next team or the player that had red would go and then black on the other team and then yellow on the other team and you'd go through the cycle just like that. Don't go out of turn, don't skip somebody's turn or anything like that. It's really easy to follow who's turn it is, but there are penalties if you do go out of turn. It's as easy as that."