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The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations, which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton. Several incomplete sets of this form of croquet are known to exist, and one complete set is still used for demonstration games in the West of Scotland. Teams are promoted and relegated between the lower tiers, but there is no relegation to or promotion from the MacRobertson Shield. Every four years, the top countries play in the World Team Championships in AC (the MacRobertson Shield) and GC (the Openshaw Shield). The most prestigious international team competition in association croquet is the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield. At the Golf Croquet World Team Championships, eight nations contest the Openshaw Shield. Fast Eddie B, is described as a "world class croquet player", and two other gang members, Ihor Ihorovich and Scar Graynolt, also play the sport. There was no chance for him to overhear any conversation, what is billiards for he was always sent out of the way when the two were closeted together. He has lost some of his length, he cannot force a ball out of its bunker as he did formerly, and his eye is not quick at judging the distance of about eighty yards which he has to carry to get over some danger.

The player who pots the nine ball earns nine points and wins the game. The oldest document to bear the word croquet with a description of the modern game is the set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in November 1856 with the Stationers' Company of London. The world's top 10 association croquet players as of October 2023 were Robert Fletcher (Australia), Robert Fulford (England), Paddy Chapman (New Zealand), Jamie Burch (England), Reg Bamford (South Africa), Matthew Essick (USA), Mark Avery (England), Simon Hockey (Australia), Harry Fisher (England), and Jose Riva (Spain). As of 2023, the Golf Croquet World Champion was Matthew Essick (USA), and the Women's Golf Croquet World Champion was Jamie Gumbrell (Australia). October, Hanan Rashad of Egypt beat Yasser Fathy (also from Egypt) to win the World over-50s Golf Croquet championship. However, there is no evidence that pall-mall involved the croquet stroke, which is the distinguishing characteristic of the modern game. Nicky Smith presents two theories of the origin of the modern game of croquet, which took England by storm in the 1860s and then spread overseas. The 13th Earl developed a variation on croquet named Captain Moreton's Eglinton Castle croquet, which had small bells on the eight hoops "to ring the changes", two pegs, a double hoop with a bell, and two tunnels for the ball to pass through.

The term snooker denotes a position of the cue ball from which the player is unable to hit the ball that the rules require one to play. However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy; successful players (in all versions other than golf croquet) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents. In Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary, his definition of "pall-mall" clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: "A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring". The cover of the 1971 Genesis album Nursery Cryme shows Cynthia, a character in the song "Musical Box" holding a croquet mallet with a few heads on the playing field including another character of the song Henry's head that she removed with said mallet. There was a revival in the 1890s, but from then on, croquet was always a minority sport, with national individual participation amounting to a few thousand players. The balkline game was devised to prevent expert players from playing the balls into a corner and scoring indefinitely on a series of simple, soft shots.

An alternative endgame is "poison": in this variant, a player who has scored the last wicket but not hit the starting stake becomes a "poison ball", which may eliminate other balls from the game by roqueting them. This may derive from the fact that (unlike in golf) players will often attempt to move their opponents' balls to unfavourable positions. If you’re a somewhat experienced player, you may be able to tell just by shooting a few balls. One might put up a little hurdle-nothing obtrusive-only a matter of a few inches high. There are ghosts of little children who have been thrown into wells. Bottle pool entails a little bit more strategy and a touch of math. Nowadays people are becoming more and more self-conscious, they are of the view that they shall start a healthy lifestyle. As well as club-level games, county-level tournaments, and leagues, there are regular world championships and international matches between croquet-playing countries. In the 1980s geography game Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Golf is the most nervous game yet invented, because most of the success of the game is a question of strength; it is an interesting question to ask.