pachisi
noun
a board game, originated in ancient India, in which four players advance four pieces each along a route on a cross-shaped board toward a center square by throws of cowrie shells or dice.
parchesi,
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a variation of
pachisi.
Example Sentences
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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
Among the parchesi players there was a hurried consultation and then one of them looked up.
From The Camp Fire Girls' Careers by Margaret Vandercook
They play at parchesi and messenger-boy with an ardor that leaves them no time to care what visitors come and go.
From The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
The next instant the parchesi game was finished and the four players glanced with greater interest at their guest.
From The Camp Fire Girls' Careers by Margaret Vandercook
"As far as I'm concerned," Blodgett said, "Mundy can play parchesi in his off time."
From The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp
