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Race games

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snakes and ladders

Mensch ärgere dich nicht

German board dice-and-pieces game, based on Pachisi (Indian origin)

Game of the Goose

large category of board games in which the object is to be the first to move all one's pieces to the end of a track

2000 board game

thumb|upright=1.4|Carpet with the Ashtapada board (detail). India or Greater Iran|Iran, 15th-century. [[Museum of Islamic Art, Doha]] Ashtāpada () or Ashtapadi is an Indian board game. Although it is played on a checkered board similar to chess, Ashtāpada predates it and differs in its mechanics and victory conditions. The game was mentioned on the list of games that Gautama Buddha would not play. Chaturanga, which could be played on the same , appeared sometime around the 6th century in India; it could be played by two to four participants.

Indian Board Game

Malefiz (also known as Barricade) is a strategy board game, invented by Werner Schöppner and published by Ravensburger since 1960. It is a non-circular descendant of the ancient Indian board game Pachisi.