Antique Look Chess Set/Chaupar Mughal Ludo Game set With Playing Coins & Dice

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Item Description-
Antique Look Chess Set/Chaupar Mughal Ludo Game Set With Wooden Playing Coins & Conch Dice On Red Cloth Board 10997_110

WEIGHT:- 262 grams // 0.578 pounds
SIZE:- 82*82 Cm (Lxh)

Chaupar , chopad or chaupad is a cross and circle board game very similar to pachisi, played in Pakistan & Ancient 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.Variations are played throughout India.[2] It is similar in some ways to Pachisi, Parcheesi and Ludo. In most of the villages of India, this game is played by old people.

History-

Gamesmen similar to chaupar with difference in colour schemes along with dice have been identified from Iron Age, Painted grey ware period from Mathura.[3] Pachisi[1] is originated from chaupar.

Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati playing chaupar, c. 1694–95

Chopat is claimed to be a variation of the game of dice played in the epic poem Mahabharata between Yudhishthira and Duryodhan.


Playing style

This game is usually played in a bantering manner, and it is quite common for players to mock each other's play just before the choris are thrown, or to attempt to distract their opponent by snorting, cracking knuckles, pretending to spit or making absurd noises to "curse" or spoil the opponent's turn.

If any of the players does not have his thore (to have killed at least one pawn) by the end of the game, then that player is known to have lost with a bay-thoree, which is the most disgraceful form of losing.

Basic rules

A maximum of four players play this game, each sitting in front of an arm of the cross. The centre of the cross is “ghar" or "home”.

The center column on each arm of the cross is the "home column" for each player's men after they cross the flower motif. The starting point for each player is the flower motif on the column to the left of his home column.

Each player has to enter his four men into the game from the starting point. The men travel around the outer perimeter columns in an anti-clockwise direction. Before a player can bring any of his own men “home”, he has to knock out at least one man of another player. This is called a “tohd”. Only the player's own men can enter the home column of each player. Once the men cross the flower motif, they are played by laying the pieces on their side to indicate they are in their final home stretch and are safe now from any further attack.

Cowry Shells

Score of 25 points

All seven cowry shells are used in each throw. In one version, scoring is as follows:

  • All 7 facing down – 7 points
  • 1 facing up, 6 facing down – 10 points
  • 2 facing up, 5 facing down – 2 points
  • 3 facing up, 4 facing down – 3 points
  • 4 facing up, 3 facing down – 4 points
  • 5 facing up, 2 facing down – 25 points
  • 6 facing up, 1 facing down – 30 points
  • All 7 facing up – 14 points

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Chaupar , chopad or chaupad is a cross and circle board game very similar to pachisi, played in Pakistan & Ancient 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.Variations are played throughout India. Each player has to enter his four men into the game from the starting point. The men travel around the outer perimeter columns in an anti-clockwise direction. Before a player can bring any of his own men “home”, he has to knock out at least one man of another player. This is called a “tohd”. Only the player's own men can enter the home column of each player. Once the men cross the flower motif, they are played by laying the
Color Multi-Color
Specification 16 Wooden playing coins with 7 conch dice
Region of Origin India
Primary Material Cloth
Type CHAUPAR GAME/ LUDO GAME
Age Post-1940
Original/Reproduction Vintage Original