The returned token may only be reentered into play when the owner rolls a " 6 " . ( Unlike Pachisi, there are no " safe " squares on the game track which protect a player's tokens from being returned.
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Trace the history of Chess back to the Gupta Period in the 6th Century AD . From the Indian game Pachisi, Ludo has become one of the most popular games in the world, played in all cultures and among all kinds of people.
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Several stories of Vikramaditya appear in the " Amar Chitra Katha " comic book series . " Vikram Aur Betaal ", which appeared on Doordarshan in the 1980s, was a television programme based on " Baital Pachisi ".
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The " Baital Pachisi " ( " Vikram and the Vampire " ) is a collection of various fantasy tales set within a frame story about an encounter between King Vikramditya and a Vetala, an early mythical creature resembling a vampire.
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According to Richard Francis Burton and Isabel Burton, the " Baital Pachisi " " is the germ which culminated in the " Decamerone, " the " Pentamerone, " and all that class of facetious fictitious literature ."
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The line between dice and board games is not clear-cut, as dice are often used as randomization devices in board games, such as Monopoly or Risk, while serving as the central drivers of play in games such as Backgammon or Pachisi.
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Its distinctive features are that the track that accommodates from four to six players, unlike other Pachisi-like games which only allow four; that it is normally drilled to accept colored glass marbles as playing pieces; and that it incorporates " shortcuts ".
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As in Pachisi, the aim is simple : players compete on leading their four pawns out of their nest, around the whole board, into the color track and up to the center of the board, chasing and " eating " each other in the process.
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It appears in several board game articles but has not been wikified : E . g . in chaturaji : " " However, there is no certainty whether the mentioned game is really a chess-like game like Chaturaji, or a race game like Pachisi . ""
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The Ancient Indian game of Pachisi was brought to the west by the British in the 1863 and an adaptation of the game named Parcheesi was first copyrighted in the United States by EG Selchow & Co in 1869 . A version of the game called mughal period from the late 17th or early 18th centuries featured the 101 names of God.
