Chart 280 - Indoor Games

Indoor Games Chart

Spectrum Chart - 280 : Indoor Games

1. Snakes & Ladders - Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian board game regarded today as a worldwide classic. It is played between two or more players on a gameboard having numbered, gridded squares. A number of "ladders" and "snakes" are pictured on the board, each connecting two specific board squares. The object of the game is to navigate one's game piece, according to die rolls, from the start to the finish, helped or hindered by ladders and snakes respectively.

2. Ludo - Ludo is a board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. Like other cross and circle games, ludo is derived from the Indian game pachisi, but simpler. The game and its variants are popular in many countries and under various names. Special areas of the Ludo board are typically coloured bright yellow, green, red, and blue. Each player is assigned a colour and has four tokens of matching colour.

3. Chess – Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and one king. The goal of the game is for each player to try and checkmate the king of the opponent. Checkmate is a threat to the opposing king which no move can stop. It ends the game.

4. Monopoly – Monopoly is a board game that originated in the USA in 1903 as a way to demonstrate that an economy which rewards wealth creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints. Players move around the game-board buying or trading properties, developing their properties with houses and hotels and collecting rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them all into bankruptcy leaving one monopolist in control of the entire economy.

5. Scrabble – Scrabble is a game that is played by 2, 3 or 4 people. It uses a board with squares on it (15 x 15) and a large number of letters on small tiles. Each player, when it is his/her turn, has to put a word on the board, using any of the seven letters that they have in front of them. Their word must join on to what is already on the board. The words must be defined in a standard dictionary or present in specified reference works, which provide a list of officially permissible words.

6. Carrom – Carrom is a tabletop game. The game of carrom is believed to have originated from the Indian subcontinent. The game is usually played on a board made of plywood. The edges of the playing surface are bounded by bumpers of wood and the underside of each pocket is covered by a net. The objective of play is to use a striker disk with a flick of the finger to make contact with and move lighter object disks called carrom men, which are thus propelled into one of four corner pockets. The aim of the game is to pot one's nine carrom men and the Queen before your opponent.

7. Dart – Darts is a form of throwing game in which small missiles are thrown at a circular dart board fixed to a wall. Though various boards and rules have been used in the past, the term "darts" usually now refers to a standardised game involving a specific board design and set of rules. As well as being a professional competitive sport, darts is a traditional pub game, commonly played in the United Kingdom.

8. Playing Cards – A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games. Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling. A pack of cards may be used for playing a variety of card games, with varying elements of skill and chance, some of which are played for money. Playing cards are also used for illusions, cardistry, building card structures, cartomancy and memory sport.

9. Trump Cards – A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its normal rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a trump suit – these cards then outrank all cards of plain suits. In other contexts, the term trump card can refer to any sort of action, authority or policy which automatically prevails over all others.

10. Pachisi – Pachisi is a cross and circle board game that originated in ancient India which has been described as the "national game of India". It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells, with the number of shells resting with aperture upwards indicating the number of spaces to move. Pachisi is a game for two to four players, four usually play in two teams. One team has yellow and black pieces, the other team has red and green. The team which moves all its pieces to the finish first wins the game.

11. Computer Games - Computer games or personal computer games, are video games played on a personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine. Their defining characteristics include a lack of any centralised controlling authority, a greater degree of user control over the video-gaming hardware and software used and a generally greater capacity in input, processing and output.

12. Virtual Video Games – A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

13. Toys – Toys are an item that can be used for playing. Playing with toys is an enjoyable means of training young children for life in society. The earliest toys were made from rocks, sticks or clay. Now, they are mostly made of plastic. Sometimes they are made of electronic material. Toys include balls, plastic cars and dolls.

14. Building Blocks - Building blocks are wooden, plastic or foam pieces of various shapes like square, cylinder, arch, triangle etc and colours that are used as construction toys. Sometimes toy blocks depict letters of the alphabet. Toy blocks build strength in a child's fingers and hands and improve eye-hand coordination. They also help educate children in different shapes.

15. Roulette – Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number or a range of numbers, the colours red or black or whether the number is odd or even. To determine the winning number and colour, the game wheel is spun in one direction, then a ball is spun in the opposite direction around a track running around the wheel. The ball eventually slows down and falls on to the wheel and into one of 37 or 38 coloured and numbered pockets on the wheel.

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