-- Games : Battleship, Boggle, Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Game of Life, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk, Parcheesi, Trivial Pursuit, Twister and Yahtzee.
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Through the decades, these dazzlers have ranged from the Parcheesi board game in the 1860s to the stairway-descending Slinky in the 1940s and 50s to Cabbage Patch Kids, with their adoption papers, in the 80s.
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The group's name is a reference to the board game, Parcheesi ( translated as Parch�s in Spanish ), where each player represents a different colored pawn ( red, yellow, blue, and green ).
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But if the goal is simple, the rules are convoluted enough that the game probably works best as niche marketing _ more fun for those with tenure or aspiring to it than to the average fan of Trivial Pursuit or Parcheesi.
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On its Web site, the United States Croquet Association says that playing croquet well " calls for the kind of physical skills developed in billiards and golf and the tactical thinking of board games like chess and Parcheesi ."
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Milton Bradley Board Games and Parker Brothers Card Games ( Hasbro Interactive ) _ Computer versions of Hasbro board games such as Pente, Parcheesi, chess and checkers, and card games such as Spades, Cribbage, Mille Bornes and Rook.
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More than ever, networks substituted young adult comedies for the family-style sitcoms that used to run between 7 and 8 p . m . Families had all the reasons they needed to substitute Parcheesi and Candyland, or cable channels and computer games, for shows that registered high on the sexual-innuendo scale.
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When Esteban finally is bold enough to venture off the ship and into the dangerous streets of Brooklyn, he becomes both lifeline and entertainment for his friends, bringing them stolen food when he can, laughable gifts ( a box of oversize underwear, a crate full of Parcheesi games ) when there is nothing else to steal.
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The original edition of the game featured the rulebook, a folding vinyl cloth gameboard, four colors of Parcheesi-style playing pieces ( white, blue, red, and green ), a pair of six-sided dice, and an assortment of color-coded monster and treasure cards for the six levels of the dungeon.
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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.
