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pachisi
[ puh-chee-zee, pah- ]
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.
- a modern version of this game.
pachisi
/ p蓱藧-; p蓹藞t蕛i藧z瑟 /
noun
- an Indian game somewhat resembling backgammon, played on a cruciform board using six cowries as dice
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pachisi1
1790鈥1800; < Hindi 辫补肠墨蝉墨, adj. derivative of 辫补肠墨蝉 twenty-five
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pachisi1
C18: from Hindi 辫补肠墨蝉墨, from 辫补肠墨蝉 twenty-five (the highest score possible in one throw)
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We are born gamers, after all 鈥 they were playing backgammon in ancient Mesopotamia and pachisi in ancient India, and who knows what prehistoric amusements before that.
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Near the recreation77 building is the famous pachisi or chess board, similar to the one at Agra, where Akbar and his vizier, sitting opposite, marshalled the slave girls to and fro.
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He had his evenings for the pachisi 亚洲网紅露点.
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Xoa had come in from the kitchen and was setting out a small table on which the pachisi board was ready for the evening's regular recreation.
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