Pachisi is a cross and circle board game that originated in ancient India, that has been described as the national game of India. It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells, with the number of shells landing aperture upwards indicating the number of places to move.
The name of the game comes from the Hindi word pachis, meaning twenty-five, the largest score that can be thrown with the cowrie shells. Thus the game is also known by the name Twenty-five.
Parcheesi and Ludo are among the many westernized versions of the game.Pachisi is a game for four players, usually in two teams. One team has yellow and black pieces, and the other has red and green ones. The winners are the two people who both get their pieces to the finish first.
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