Pachisi
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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
A game of Pachisi on a cloth board
Large ancient garden version – Fatehpur Sikri – India; marked squares can just be made out under the shadows of the onlookers.
Pachisi pieces in enamelled gold with precious stones, 18th century Mughal India, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
A beaded Pachisi game, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Ludo
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Ludo is a strategy-based board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Ludo shares characteristics with o
Pachisi
…mainly Syria, while Parchís is another game popular in Spain and northern Morocco. Parqués is its Colombian equivalent. Parcheesi, Patchesi, Sorry!, and Ludo are among the commercial versions of similar games. The jeu des petits chevaux ('game of little horses') is played in France, and Mensch ärgere Dich…
An early commercial Ludo board by Chad Valley (mid 20th century)
An early commercially printed edition of Ludo by Chad Valley
Mens erger je niet, Dutch version for six players
Pachisi variant being played on a Ludo board in Nepal