PARAMAPADAM - INDIAN GAMES

Materials Required

•  Game board
•  One stone pieces for each player
•  Brass dice 

Type of the Game	Board	Category	Boys/Girls
No. of player	Minimum 2	Age Group	5 years

Scientific Reason

Paramapadam Teaches about good and evil, Introduce children to chance and luck and inculcates a deeper spiritual message. 

How to play

1. The game can be played by two or more players.
2. Game Pieces may be anything like Seeds, Coins, Shells, etc the only requirement is each has to be different to identify which belongs to the respective player.
3. Players place their game pieces on the space on the board labelled “0” and can start only when they get 1 (Thayam) when they roll the dice. The dice is rolled in clockwise direction or may also decide by all the players rolling the dice and the one who get the largest resulting number will take the first turn.
4. The first player rolls the dice and mark off the number rolled starting on the “1” spot on the board. All players take turns rolling the dice and moving their markers.
5. If the marker reaches the number which has bottom of the ladder he climbs the ladder and go to the top of the ladder and continue from there, and If the marker reaches the number which has the face of the snake then he needs to go down to the box where it has its tail and continue from there.
6. The winner of the game is the one who first reaches the paramapadam (winning point).

Rules to play

1. A player gets an extra turn if he gets 1, 5, 6 while rolling but he needs to move the marker each time he rolls the dice as he needs to follow the ladder or snake for each turn
2. If the player gets three ‘6’ in a row while rolling he must return to ‘0’ that is the beginning of the board and should not move until he roll’s another 6 on his turn.
3. In some boards there will be directions written on the boxes For example, if it says “go back three spaces” Follow the directions and go back 3 boxes.

Goal

The goal of the game is to reach the paramapadam (winning point).