Carrom – A Board Game

Just similar to Kabaddi or Kho Kho, Carrom Board game is just another game played in the Indian Sub-Continent but it is not like the other games . The game of the carrom is spread all over South East Asia zone and there are some of the international championships that are being played.
What is Carrom?
Carrom is a board game which is similar to billiards or snooker but it is not played by balls or the sticks. It is very much popular in most of the South East Asian countries like India, Nepal, Pakistan
History
In the year 1988, the International Carrom Federation or ICF was founded in the city of Chennai in India. The formal rules for the game of carrom were published in the same year. After the establishment of formal rules, the Indian Diaspora spread the game in Europe and in the US and in Canada also.
How to Play Carrom?
The carrom is played on plastic or (mostly) wooden carrom boards of different sizes. The objective of the game is to push the lightweight wooden discs which are called the ‘carrom men’ into the four different pockets on the four corners of the carrom board with the support of a striker, made up of plastic. The carrom men are in three different colors, Black, White, and Pink.
The total of 9 black and 9 white are fixed in such a way that it makes a circle in the middle of the board and in the very center, the pink carrom man called the Queen is put. ICF has approved the measurement that Carrom men should between 3.02 – 3.18 cm in diameter. The Queen can be won only if it is covered by another carrom man in consecutive shots. To make the carrom board surface smooth, a boric acid powder is often used in India.

By: Saksham Gupta
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