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18. Notes on “ Pachesi” and similar games, as played in the 
Karwi Subdivision, United Provinces.—By E. M. Hum 
PHRIES. 
A feature which cannot fail to strike the most unobservant 
formed by a horizontal, supported on two vertical slabs. These 
are arranged roughly either in a cmp: or in a square formation, 
meni ne one of nothing so mach as the remains at Stonehenge. 
On the surface of these slabs will "otien be found scored the 
nt of certain games 
During the tour season of 1904-5, I collected the rules of 
some of these games, so far as I was able to ascertain them in 
The following notes, which have no claim to be considered 
exhaustive, embody the substance of the information so obtained. 
Pachesi. 
The most familiar of these games is that known as “ Paches 
It is eT on a board marked out as in the binding 
diagram (Fig. 1). 
Fig. 1, 
Each arm of the cross is divided into three rows of eight 
squares. Of these the fifth from the end of each of the outer 
rows, and the middle square of the bottom row are marked with a 
diagonal cross to indicate that a piece on one of these squares is 
safe from capture. 
