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You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine.

From Time Magazine Archive

From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that this was ridiculous�the only dice he had ever owned had come with parchesi and backgammon sets.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the evening they played euchre, or hearts, or parchesi; Susan and Philip struggled with chess; there were talks about the fire, and they all straggled upstairs at ten o'clock.

From Saturday's Child by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

Tom and Charlie sprang up so suddenly from their game of parchesi that counters and disks fell to the floor.

From Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 17, April 26, 1914 by Various

Whereupon they fell to playing parchesi and eating sweetmeats.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French