Pachisi
Sign in to savePachisi (, ) is a cross and circle board game that originated in Ancient India. It is described in the ancient text Mahabharata under the name of "Pasha". It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells as lots, with the number of shells resting with the aperture upward indicating the number of spaces to move.
Key facts
- Game.title
- Pachisi
- Game.italic title
- no
- Game.image_link
- Pachisi-real.jpg
- Game.image_caption
- A game of Pachisi on a cloth board
- Game.years
- Ancient India to present
- Game.players
- 2–4
- Game.ages
- 4+
- Game.setup_time
- Negligible
- Game.playing_time
- 30–60 minutes
- Game.random_chance
- Medium (dice rolling)
- Game.skills
- Strategy, tactics, counting, probability
- Game.AKA
- Twenty-Five
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Pachisi (, ) is a cross and circle board game that originated in Ancient India. It is described in the ancient text Mahabharata under the name of "Pasha". It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells as lots, with the number of shells resting with the aperture upward indicating the number of spaces to move.
The name of the game is derived from the Hindi word , meaning 'twenty-five', the largest score that can be thrown with the cowrie shells; thus this game is also known by the name Twenty-Five. There are other versions of this game where the largest score that can be thrown is thirty.