Desicritics Comments on Snakes and Ladders

Comment by Deepa Krishnan

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:35:59 EDT

If you have the inclination, take a look at kreedagames.com, they sell all these traditional games and it doesn't cost much. Stores in Chennai carry them, and they sell online as well. I think I can recognise some of the text of this article, it is the same text on kreeda. It is a great gift if you are visitng someone abroad.

Comment by commonsense

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:06:12 EDT

amazing! who would have guessed! and there are some kids who refer to board games as "bored games"!

Comment by Ramesh Raju

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:33:39 EDT

I want to view high resolution of at least 500x500 Jpg of Gyan Caupar board (hindu snakes and ladders. I want to save the image of it. I think the original board is in British museum. regards, rameshrajuartist at the rate of gmail dot com.

Comment by Ramesh Raju

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:19:45 EDT

I want to see high resolution Jpg image of original Gyan Chaupar board. I think it is in British museum.

Comment by PH

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:34:15 EST

Sam, Wonderful read!

Comment by Sam

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:44:53 EST

Yeah I don't remember ever playing board games except on camps. Mostly we played tag, langdi tag, collecting marbles, playing gilli danda, hopscotch and blind man's buff. Also phugdi and skipping rope games, played that a lot. Fun times :)

Comment by Athreya

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 14:57:28 EST

Interesting read. Some of the Indian indoor games are a tad kid unfriendly, especially of the board variety ; but there were others like a bunch of em with small conch shells that was a kid favorite. Thanks to the year round sunshine(almost), the outdoor games were the preferred ones. Just the other day, amid paying thru our noses for football & hockey gear, a bunch of us desi parents were reminiscing the not so expensive, great physical activity, helps teambuilding, games we grew up playing : Kho-Kho, Lagori/7-Stones, gilli-danda and variants of Dodgeball. Or even the street versions of soccer, volleyball, shuttle & cricket for that matter...

Comment by temporal

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 09:57:19 EST

sam: i was not aware of its origin! pleasantly surprised:)

Comment by Aaman

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 09:23:50 EST

Very interesting. One rarely thinks about complex strategies in the game, given its two-dimensional nature, but it seems there may be more than meets the eye.