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To lend authenticity to one’s stay, lights are dimmed in the evening to mimic candlelight; games like checkers, cribbage and crokinole, the latter from rural Canada, are set out.

He’d last seen Kale Williams just days prior, playing a board game called Crokinole with him the night before Fleury’s Red Deer Rebels junior team embarked on a road trip.

Murray and Maria “handily” beat Alexeyev and Samsonov in Crokinole, and the dinner responsibilities were split.

The Samsonovs and Alexeyev were housesitters in Murray’s home for roughly a week before he joined them for four days that included home-cooked meals and nights playing Crokinole, a board game popular in Murray’s southern Ontario hometown.

And he likes to play crokinole, a tabletop carrom-type game.