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Parqués (Spanish pronunciation:) is the Colombian version of a board game in the cross and circle family (the category that includes Pachisi).The game is described as a "random thinking" game: the moves depend on the roll of the dice but players must consider possible strategies before executing their move.
Pachisi pieces in enamelled gold with precious stones, 18th century Mughal India, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Pachisi is a game for two, three, or four players, [14] four usually play in two teams. One team has yellow and black pieces, the other team has red and green.
Parchís board. Parchís is a Spanish board game of the original from the Cross and Circle family. [1] It is an adaptation of the Indian game Pachisi.Parchís was a very popular game in Spain at one point as well as in Europe and north Morocco - specifically Tangiers and Tetouan, and it is still popular especially among adults and seniors. [2]
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Games magazine included Parcheesi in their "Top 100 Games of 1980", praising it as a "classic chase game from India that has withstood the test of millennia". [6] Games magazine included Parcheesi in their "Top 100 Games of 1981", describing it as "one of the easiest board games to learn and is perfectly suited for family play". [7]
The design of most cross and circle games involves a circle divided into four equal portions by a cross inscribed inside it; the classic example of this design is the Korean game Yut. However, the term "cross and circle" is typically widened to include boards that replace the circle with a square, and cruciform boards that collapse the circle ...
A traditional Tock board. Tock (also known as Tuck in some English parts of Quebec and Atlantic Canada, and Pock in some parts of Alberta) is a board game, similar to Ludo, Aggravation or Sorry!, in which players race their four tokens (or marbles) around the game board from start to finish—the objective being to be the first to take all of one's tokens "home".
Fabric chausar board. Chaupar (IAST: caupaṛ), chopad or chaupad is a cross and circle board game very similar to pachisi, played in India.The board is made of wool or cloth, with wooden pawns and seven cowry shells to be used to determine each player's move, although others distinguish chaupur from pachisi by the use of three four-sided long dice. [1]