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It's more laid back. Woody and Anne's shuffleboard table was built in the s and, at 22 feet, is the longest in Madison. The electronic scoreboard dates to , and games still cost 25 cents. Its worn buttons require a delicate touch "Do not pound, tap" instructs a sign. Bullseye doesn't own the table, but a Bullseye serviceman takes a look at it when he stops by to fix the jukebox.

The game of shuffleboard has existed in some form or another for hundreds of years. Its modern incarnation is fairly simple: team members take turns sliding weighted pucks across a table salted with moisture-proof shuffleboard powder. The objective is to knock your opponent's pucks off the board into a trough and get your own pucks as close to the edge without them teetering off the edge. It can be tricky to eyeball whose puck slid closest to the edge, so teams use a T-square or, its more prevalent cousin, a lighter to determine the winner.

If that doesn't settle it, teams call on Wieder to decide. Wieder has tended bar at Woody and Anne's for nine years. He started holding shuffleboard tournaments seven years ago, then organized a regular league two years later.

He knows the regulars by name and kept players on a recent Tuesday night plied with drinks the Old Fashioned is the cocktail of choice. There's a lot of strategy to the game, said Andrew Kraiss between turns in a two-on-two match, but "you can't get too cocky.

He's also noticed a bell curve on the axis of skill and alcohol consumption: "You get better, then after four or five drinks, you're done. A man at the bar, Scott Kinsey, chimed in that Scotch is his shuffleboard "aiming fluid. Kraiss found out about the league through a friend three years ago. He plays with other linguist researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and they've named their teams after linguistic terms: The Cunning Linguists, the Bilabial Fricatives.

The novelty of an old-fashioned game, plus the idiosyncrasies of an antique table like the one at Woody and Anne's, endear it to Kraiss. According to the judge, if nothing else, "this sentence will send the message to the business community that no special rules apply to cash businesses.

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