General Discussion & Chat: Some Indian traditional games, 1 by Dinu

Dinu wrote:
My D is playing a game on the board with her friend. It's a board with 25 squares, 5 of which are 'inactive', mean nobody can capture and send the coin back to the start. Each player uses 4 'coins' [here one is using tamarind seeds and one is using little shells]. For dice, they use four bigger shells the ones that closes down is counted. It all four opens upwards, or all faces down, the player gets another chance to play the dice for a score of 4 and 8 respectively. It is a very interesting simple game that can be very thrilling, esp. when you enter the inner squares. One has to qualify to enter the inner squares by capturing any of the players' pieces. Two to four players can play. There is also this game's elder brother that has 49 squares, but it takes a long time to end. That is a simple cardboard piece I have made about 25 years back. Still it is going on! They can play this game anywhere - mark those squares with chalk and play!