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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. Carom games such as straight-rail, three-cushion, balkline, and five pins make use of only three balls: a red object ball, one solid white cue ball for player one, and another cue ball that is white with a dot on it, or yellow, for player two. They are numbered 1-15. Numbers 1-8 are solid colored balls, meaning the whole ball is one color except for the where it is numbered. However, every player is different, so the worst felt color for some may be the best for others. For serious players or those who intend to spend a lot of time playing for fun, green or blue are the best bets.

Due to their flat and hard surface, they maintain a level playing field for a longer time. Each time a ball is roqueted, the striker gets two bonus shots. Nicky Smith presents two theories of the origin of the modern game of croquet, what is billiards which took England by storm in the 1860s and then spread overseas. Like association croquet, the object of the game is to be the first to pass each of their balls through all six hoops in both directions and to strike the central peg, for a total of 26 points. It is important to aim to strike a balance between offensive and defensive play, and always approach the game with good sportsmanship. But there is more to pool than the traditional billiard game. There is an especially large interest in competitive success among players in Egypt. Some other early modern sources refer to pall-mall being played over a large distance (as in golf); however, an image in Strutt's 1801 book shows a croquet-like ground billiards game (balls on the ground, hoop, bats, and peg) being played over a short, garden-sized distance. Regardless of when and by what route it reached the British Isles and the British colonies in its recognizable form, croquet is, like pall-mall and trucco, among the later forms of ground billiards, which as a class have been popular in Western Europe back to at least the Late Middle Ages, with roots in classical antiquity, including sometimes the use of arches and pegs along with balls and mallets or other striking sticks (some more akin to modern field hockey sticks).

Heathers are playing croquet to hit Veronica on the head. Official artistic pool competitions often feature equipment limitations, such as playing with a single cue or all shots not being allowed to leave the bed of the table. Records show a game called "crookey", similar to croquet, being played at Castlebellingham in County Louth, Ireland, in 1834, which was introduced to Galway in 1835 and played on the bishop's palace garden, and in the same year to the genteel Dublin suburb of Kingstown (today Dún Laoghaire) where it was first spelled as "croquet". In 1865, the 'Rules of the Eglinton Castle and Cassiobury Croquet' was published by Edmund Routledge. Croquet became highly popular as a social pastime in England during the 1860s. It was enthusiastically adopted and promoted by the Earl of Essex, who held lavish croquet parties at Cassiobury House, his stately home in Watford, Hertfordshire, and the Earl even launched his own Cassiobury brand croquet set.

Croquet is featured prominently in the music video for "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" by My Chemical Romance. In England and Wales, there are around 170 clubs affiliated with the Croquet Association. The current Women's Association Croquet World Champion (2023) is Debbie Lines of England. 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 the 1980s geography game Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Other nations compete in Tier 2 and Tier 3 World Team Championships. As well as club-level games, county-level tournaments, and leagues, there are regular world championships and international matches between croquet-playing countries. The 2023 AC World Championships took place in London; the winner was Robert Fulford. Johnson, Samuel; Walker, John; Jameson, Robert S. (1828). A dictionary of the English language. 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).