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Parcheesi
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thumb|upright=1.3|A game of Parcheesi in progress Parcheesi is a brand-name American adaptation of the Indian cross and circle board game Pachisi, published by E. G. Selchow & Co and Winning Moves Games USA.
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It is catalogued under topics including Abstract strategy games, Cross and circle games and Indian board games.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- board game
- Country of origin
- United States
- Based on
- Pachisi
- Image
- Parcheesi-board.jpg
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- Commons category
- Parcheesi
- minimum number of players
- 2
- maximum number of players
- 6
- minimum age
- 5
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Equipment
- Setup
- Rules
- Gameplay
- Rewards of extra moves
- Winning the game
- Reception
- See also
- References
thumb|upright=1.3|A game of Parcheesi in progress Parcheesi is a brand-name American adaptation of the Indian cross and circle board game Pachisi, published by E. G. Selchow & Co and Winning Moves Games USA.
==Equipment== Parcheesi is typically played with two dice, four pieces per player and a with a track around the outside, four corner spaces and four home paths leading to a central end space. The most popular Parcheesi boards in America have 68 spaces around the edge of the board, 12 of which are darkened safe spaces. Each corner of the board contains one player's nest, or .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parcheesi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.