Parcheesi

The Parcheesi is the American adaptation Indian play Pachisi. John Hamilton first of all recorded it under the name of Patchessi in 1867. In 1870, it sold the rights to a editor of board games of New York which will become thereafter Selchow and Richter and which will renregistrera the mark in 1874. The play remains always a great success with the the United States. In France, one plays very close play rather, the Jeu of the small horses

Differences with the Play of the small horses

The Parcheesi is rather different from the Jeu of the small horses, in spite of a resemblance of the aprons of play.

Parcheesi is played with two dice on a longer circuit: sixty-eight boxes instead of fifty six.
Sixteen of these boxes is boxes of refuge where the pawns cannot be captured by an unfavourable pawn.
to leave the base, it is necessary to make five, with a die or two Des.
Two pawns of the same player which are on the same box form an insuperable stopping except exception.
etc

The rules of Parcheesi are worked out much and tactics that those of his/her French cousin. What explains why the play is always success, even near public adults.

See too

Jeu of the small horses
Ludo
Pachisi
do not make You

of it

External bond

the anglophone site of Vegard Krog Petersen: " Pachisi and Ludo"

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