board game horses

Canon EOS 6D - f/8.0 - 1/80sec - 100 mm - ISO 5000

 

- for Flickr group 'Macro Mondays', theme: 'Board Game Pieces

 

Board Game pieces of Pachisi / Ludo / Parcheesi / Ludo / Mensch ärgere Dich nicht / Mens erger je niet / Parchis / etc.

 

- The game goes back to an old Indian game called Pachisi, which is still known today. Moreover, it is very common in Sri Lanka ('pahada kolya'), Malaysia ('dhola'), Myanmar ('pasit', 'chwe-pyit-thi' or 'ansah-pyit-thi'), Iran ('pachis'), as well as in Arabic countries ('parchis').

- The game is also very similar to the Colombian game Parqués, the American games Parcheesi and Trouble, and the English game Ludo.

- Finally, through the Moors, it was brought to Spain, and thus to Europe.

- "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" is a German board game, developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908.

 

 

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