Talk:Pachisi
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Generating an original image to replace the current image here. The board currently shown is not pachisi. - PilotPrecise 00:37, 10 March 2004 (UTC)
- It is, the image came from an old academic paper about the game (by Stewart Cullin IIRC). --Imran 03:17, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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- Indeed, you are correct! I had believed that classic Pachisi had the forts in the locations as indicated in the image I made, but in reviewing this to make sure, I have found at four configurations ascribed to "Pachisi" (one described as a Chaupar board; silly to claim as Chaupar has no safe houses) and it is difficult to prove wich (if any) is the classic layout. Most examples are like the image I created, but the layout you provide by Cullin and the layout in Partlett's Oxford History... differ (each in the opposite extremes) and my image is more common and between the two. May be worth a mention in the article that the safe house positions vary. PilotPrecise 05:09, 10 March 2004 (UTC)
