How to Build a Ricochet Game Table

By: Jennifer Stimpson, This Old House online

Shopping List

Supplies You Will Need

72x30-inch lauan hollow-core wood interior slab door

1x4 exterior preprimed trim boards. Get three 8-foot boards.

0000 steel wool

220-grit sandpaper

1x4 strapping to secure the legs to the door.

Banquet-table replacement legs. Get a set of two.

1 5/8-inch deck screws

Clear-gloss polyurethane. Get 1 quart.

Painter's tape

Spray paint in black satin.

White latex semigloss paint

Rub-on numbers

1-inch sewing elastic

Ladder-lock buckles (available at sewing stores); get 2

Wood pucks Get eight: four in one color and four in another

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Tools List
Tools You Will Need
- jigsaw fitted with a clean-cutting wood blade
- drill/driver fitted with a #6 countersink bit
- combination square
- plastic putty knife
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group of happy people standing around a team saturday ricochet game board

Photo: Room 5 Films

Introduction
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6 hours
95, including wood pucks

Difficulty: Moderate The sides assemble quickly, but applying and buffing the multi-layered finish takes some time, patience, and elbow grease.

Maybe you've never visited the Shuffleboard Hall of Fame. And perhaps you didn't know that the sport's rankings once occupied as much space in New York's morning papers as prize fighting and baseball. But surely you've enjoyed a match somewhere along the line and experienced the joy of knocking your opponent's puck into oblivion.

Now you can take that competitive spirit to tabletop heights with the TOH version, Ricochet, which employs an elastic band and a hollow-core door to transform the traditional playing surface into a challenging U shape. TOH's game experts, aka Team Saturday, walk you through the steps in a video tutorial. Once the surface has been buffed and the bets are placed, you'll wonder why this surprisingly rowdy game ever lost its luster.