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Novelty Golf & Games – AKA Bunny Hutch – Lincolnwood

Miniature Golf for Two or Four (Up to Half Off)

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In a Nutshell

10-foot-tall chickens, giant fiberglass shoes, and Frankenstein heads tower over two classic, 18-hole mini-golf courses

The Fine Print

  • Expires Oct 5, 2012
  • Limit 2 per person, may buy 1 additional as a gift. Limit 1 per visit. Valid only for option purchased. Not valid on Holidays. Cash only. Only paying customers allowed on course. Must use promotional value in 1 visit.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

Mini-golf courses are covered with obstacles, not unlike the path to romance between a skateboarding hoodlum and a queen who died 500 years ago. Conquer all with this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

  • $9 for 18 holes of mini golf for two (up to an $18 value)
  • $18 for 18 holes of mini golf for four (up to a $36 value)

Novelty Golf & Games – AKA Bunny Hutch

Several years ago, during a filming of WTTW's Wild Chicago, Novelty Golf & Games owner Craig's brother stood next to a 10-foot fiberglass chicken and lamented, “This is the world’s loneliest chicken.” Its match had recently been stolen, and every fiberglass fox in the city had a solid alibi.

Shortly after the taping, a viewer called in with a tip: he’d seen the missing hen roosting in a backyard, clearly visible from the window of the Brown Line train. Boarding the "L" himself, Craig confirmed the spotting, and soon enough, the Loneliest Chicken's counterpart was on its way back home in the bed of a pickup truck.

Thus reunited, the two chickens stand proudly today over the 36 mini-golf holes at Novelty Golf & Games, along with the full menagerie of bears, elephants, mermaids, circus seals, and dinosaurs that the course has accumulated over its 63 years. Some of the attractions are as old as the course itself, including a 15-foot fiberglass shoe hand-built over a chicken-wire frame. While the statues are often replicated, Craig and his business partner Cassandra continue to design new obstacles the only way they know how, often sharing margaritas as they sketch their designs on cocktail napkins. “We change things,” they say, “but not for the sake of change.”

The course, after all, has always been a place of innovation. In the 1960s, Craig's mother opened an onsite restaurant and promoted the rabbit statue on the 14th hole to head doorman, earning the eatery its perennial nickname, “Bunny Hutch.” Throughout the years, the family has also acquired popular games, including four pinball machines, Dance Dance Revolution, an authentic photo booth, and a 1950s metal-stamping machine. Though they welcome each new addition, they strive to maintain the course’s classic appeal, insisting that “you can’t improve on perfection.”

On the same token, you can't just sit idly by when perfection flies the coop.

Prices at Novelty Golf & Games, AKA “Bunny Hutch” vary throughout the week.

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Groupon Says

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The Groupon Guide to: Emergency Roadside Kits

Cars frequently break down because of potholes and the auto industry's shift to an assembly process employing inexpensive glues that raccoons also love to eat. Next time your coupe craps out, be ready with a kit that includes these items:

  • Jumper cables
  • Gas for car
  • Gas for setting a "rescue fire"
  • Megaphone for communicating with the family member who went to get assistance
  • Glass bottle
  • Glass-bottle breaker, maybe a hammer
  • Gloves for handling the glass shards you will use to make a secure perimeter around your vehicle
  • Box full of pieces required to make a slightly smaller replica of your actual car
  • A note that says "The odds of not surviving a car breakdown are not as high as you may think."

How many times do you have to hit a glass bottle with a hammer before it breaks?

Novelty Golf & Games – AKA Bunny Hutch

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