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Introduction
> Pick your players
> Here's how it goes
> Two Games
Pick your players
| Singles, doubles or simply by
yourself are three ways in which you can play this game. If you're
playing singles, you'll need one other player. You'll sit at opposite
ends opposing each other. Whereas in doubles, there are 4 players only
this time, it's partners who sit opposite each other. |
Here's how it goes...
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| (1) Carrom is played on a large square wooden board with a small pocket in
each corner. There are nine white coins, nine black coins, one red coin called the
'Queen',
and a Striker disc. Imagine playing pool with your fingers instead of a cue, and with
small wooden discs instead of balls. |
(2) Place the Striker in between the
thick and thin lines on your side of the board so that it touches each line. Using your
middle, index finger or
thumb, you flick the striker like a cue ball to sink the wooden checker-sized coins into
any of the four corner pockets. |
The red coin can be pocketed any time after a player pockets his first piece.
The idea is to pot the coins into
any or all of the 4 pockets. Sounds like billiards - doesn't it? Each player will get just
one chance. But of course if he/she pots a coin, he/she gets another strike.
Points are tallied and the first player to score
twenty-five points wins the game. Now all that is needed is a Carrom stand or a table to
put the board on, chairs and 1, 2 or 4 players. Also, a lot of Carrom powder is needed to
keep the striker and coins sliding smoothly.
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