Traditional games of India

Traditional Games of India

1. Shatranj or Chess
Chess is perhaps India's oldest and most loved board indoor
game. Chess was born in India and has been played in India
through centuries. It is revered as an indication of a man's
intelligence and strategic capabilities. A chess set can be found
in almost every Indian home. Many of India's folktales are littered
with stories of kings and emperors and their chess games. In
fact, even the Mahabharata has a crucial episode which involves
chess.
Chess is excellent for overall mental development. Many schools
encourage children to pick up chess. Chess has a very positive
effect on children and adults both.

2. Poshampa
:Two people making a Gate structure and
other kids make a line and pass through it…
once the songs finished one of the person
inside gate i taken and asked a question and
accordingly decided n which team s/he goes.

3. Pallanguli

Pallanguli is played in the southern India. It is called
the gambling game by men. The board has 14 cups
with each player controlling seven. In each cup six
seeds are placed. To play the game, players lift the
seeds and distribute one seed in each hole. If the
seeds are finished, the player goes on to his
opponent’s side of the board. If the seed fall into a
cup with an empty cup beyond, the seeds in the cup
beyond the empty hole are captured by the player
and put into his store.

4. Pachisi
It is a board game that originated in ancient India.
The name of the game ‘Pachisi’ has come from a
Hindi word pachis, meaning twenty-five. The name
of the game is also called Twenty five, as the largest
score that can be thrown with the cowrie shells. The
game is played between four players, divided into
two teams. Players play with four beehive-shaped
pieces in the color of black, red, yellow and green.

5. Tickdiya

Seeds from "Kaner" tree were collected and
dried. after they are fully dried they become
hard plates with thick edges. Number of
games can be played out of this. All the
kancha games as well taking tickdis out one
by one from a circle without disturbing other
tickdis. (from a lot of 300 400 tickdis…
players would play for hrs)

6. kankad
This Game more popular among girls is played with
5 or 7 stones. Again Lethal permutations and
combinations to increase the difficulty levels. for
example picking one stone from ground while three
are in the air and have to catch all of them.
These are few more games which are much popular
when it comes down to playing with COLONY kids.

7. Char Bhar

Mind Boggling game which requires enough
thinking. Can be compared to CHESS. here you
draw three concentric squares with perpendicular
bisector connecting all three squares on every side.
Two players can play with 9 coins each. Idea is to
eat up other person's coins. For eating up any coin
one needs to make three coins in line. Very very
strategic game. Why its called CHAR-Bhar? In Hindi
eating is called charna (normally animals do it ). and
BHAR is when you have made three coins in line.