 
Classic Parcheesi Board Game
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I used to play this game back when I was a kid. I remember it like yesterday... 1985, broken arm, and hours of parcheesi. I recently taught my son and best friend how to play this game and I do think I have just made 2 more parcheesi fans. This game is awesome for the young and young at heart!!! LOVES IT!!!!!!!!!!
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Bought this for my Grandchildren because I remember it was my favorite game growing up. It is now their favorite game. Especially designed for kids the animal pawns make it more fun. 6 and 8 years old.
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In 1974, my family took a trip out West, going over 2800 miles, through Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. Parcheesi went with us.
Oh, what is Parcheesi, you ask? It is a very old board game that is a great family game. The board has four Start areas, four Home areas, and spaces along the perimeter that players use to navigate around the board, from Start to Home. Each player has four pieces, that start out in their respective Start area. The colors of the pieces are red, green, blue, and yellow. There are two dice, and the players take turns throwing the dice, trying to get their pieces out of Start, and moving pieces around the board toward Home. If you roll doubles, there is a bonus and special rules. A roll of doubles gets fourteen, but must be used in moves comprised of the two numbers on top and the two numbers on the bottoms of the dice. For example, a roll of two sixes gets you two sixes and two ones, but must be used in increments of ones and sixes.
Another rule that makes play more interesting is what happens when opponents' pieces run into each other on the board. If a player has two pieces on one spot, that is a blockade, and opponents' pieces cannot pass, until the blockade is broken by the player who made it.
And, if Player One's piece lands on a square already occupied by Player Two's piece, Player Two's piece gets sent back to Start, and Player One gets twenty bonus squares to move.
Parcheesi is a good game for families because it is challenging enough for adults to enjoy, yet easy enough to learn and to play, so that everyone can enjoy it, from age six and up. There is more strategy and action than checkers, but the game is less complicated than chess. For children, skills involved include counting, taking turns, and following the rules.
This game was "created" in 1860 but is based an a very old game from India. Several versions are on the market, called "Parcheesi" or "Parchisi" or "Pachisi". The name "Parcheesi" is usually connected to the version made by Milton Bradley Company, and the version I have is an old Milton Bradley Company game, with little pawns as pieces. Newer Milton Bradley Company versions have received a nice "face-lift" by changing the simple pawns to animal figures associated with India: (yellow) camel, (blue) elephant, (red) tiger, (green) buffalo.
The game can be played by two, three, or four players, and takes about thirty minutes.
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I bought this for my 9 yr old nephew for Christmas and it was a smash hit for him and for us adults! We must have played this a dozen times in 3 days with 2,3, or 4 players. There are many bonus moves and rules so read the instructions thoroughly or you'll miss a lot like we did the 1st game. It teaches great strategy and is exciting up until the very end when someone in last place can suddenly end up winning. Great great fun and I cannot say enough positive about Parcheesi!
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This board is better than the one I used to play as a child. Everyone loves the fact that animals are the playing pieces instead of those little round colored buttons.
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