Unabridged Shuffleboard Dictionary

Local: A designation on Florida tournament schedules, part of the tournament number, indicating a tournament is a District-only local event that is not an official FSA tournament. Such a tournament appears only on the schedule of the District where the tournament takes place, often restricted to a particular group of players such as one club or league. (Example: "L01" is the first District-only local event of the season.)

A designation on tournament schedules indicating an event restricted to female players only.

1. A contest of two opposing players alternatingly shooting discs, up to four each, at the lagline to determine which player or partner team gets to choose their disc color before the start of a game, or to determine the game winner in the case of a tie. Until the final two discs, shot discs are for practice and are removed from the board after every two discs are shot, one for each player. The player whose final lag disc stops closest to the center of the lagline wins the lag, except the last player to shoot automatically loses if their last disc touches the other player's last disc. 2. Shoot discs for the lag.

The player or team that has earned the right of color choice by winning the lag.

The deadline closest to the other end of the court from the shooters. || In some locales, this term is used to refer to the further deadline both for all game play and when lagging; and in other locales only when lagging.

STARTING AREA.

A disc that has stopped at the edge of the court, tipped into and touching the gutter, and is leaning against the edge of the court.

BLOCK (def. 2).

The accumulated Masters Points earned by a player over the course of their lifetime.

The path the cue disc needs to follow to reach its target.

A fun game format wherein players shoot to land on a line of the scoring triangle, each liner scoring five points.

The number of the horizontal line on the tournament bracket diagram upon which a player's name first appears for match assignments. The lines on the diagram are numbered sequentially from one, starting at the top. Usually, in tournaments that use brackets, the player or partner team with the lower line number plays Yellow first in a match. Line numbers are usually assigned by random draw before the first match of a tournament, one line number for each player in singles or for each partner team in doubles.

A live disc that is not scoring because it touches one or more of the lines of the scoring diagram. Syn: DEAD DISC.

A tongue-in-cheek colloquial expression that makes the point that playing kitchen or attempting a kitchen shot is a danger to the player who attempts it, mainly used when the attempt has had a poor result. An alteration of the biblically-sourced proverb "live by the sword, die by the sword."

Any disc on the board during game play that is either in motion on the board or has stopped on the board touching or behind the further deadline from the shooting end, and hasn't touched an alley or person, or gone beyond the baseline of the receiving end. Sometimes a live disc is declared a dead disc as part of a penalty for a rules violation. At the completion of an end, after the scores are recorded, all live discs become dead discs and are moved to the starting area to continue play.

FORT KNOX.

Beads that have been sprinkled onto the surface of the board before play and are liable to movement causing changes to the characteristics of the board as play progresses.

Fail to score one's hammer.

DEEP.