what is carrom?

Question

i know it is a passtime game in india but what is it?? how to make it?? play it??

Answer 1

It is a "board game". Board is made out of plywood. Played like Pool by two or four people. But in a non tournament setting by any even number of people in two team each striking its colour. Three sizes are on the market, Infant, medium and Tournament (regulation) size.

Some Indian food and goods stores will have this or will order it for you. In big city you may find it in toy stores. It may be on E-bay and Amazon.com or India.com

Board is a plywood board, with four pockets in the four corners. It has a circular decorative pattern, he painted in the centre, 1 red, and few white and same No. of Black circular disc is provided, starting with red in the centre the pieces are arranged alternately in a pattern, there is a larger piece call striker usually white or yellow in colour (used like Que ball, there is no Que stick but thumb and the index finger is used to activate the striker and break the pattern), the rules and the pattern is in the instruction but people some times make their rules also to make it easy or to get more fun out of it.
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Spelling may be different on E-bay and Internet "Carrom"?
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Answer 2

Carrom or carroms is a family of tabletop games sharing a similarity in that their mechanics lie somewhere between billiards and shuffleboard. The game has various other names around the world, including carrum, carum, karam, karom, karum, and "Indian finger billiards


The game was played on a board of lacquered plywood, normally with a 29 inch (74 cm) square playing surface. The edges of the playing surface are bounded by bumpers of wood. Instead of the balls of billiards games, carrom uses disks (also known as pucks or coins). The object of the game is to strike or flick with a finger a comparatively heavy disk called a "striker" such that it contacts lighter object disks called "carrom men" (alternatively, "carrom seeds") and propels them into one of four corner pockets. The carrom men come in two colors denoting the two players (or, in doubles play, teams). Traditionally, these colors are white (or unstained) and black. The breaker always plays white. An additional carrom man is colored red and called the "queen".


The aim of the game is to pot your nine carrom men before your opponent pots his/hers. However, before sinking your final carrom man, the queen must be pocketed and then "covered" by pocketing one of your carrom man on the same or subsequent strike. Fouls, such as crossing the diagonal lines on the board with any part of your body, or potting the striker, lead to carrom men being returned to the board. The player is not allowed to shoot the striker behind the line; except when hitting a back shot. However, directly striking a coin touching the players base line is not allowed, even for a back shot

A variant often popular with children or an odd number of players. Play is as above except that all players try to sink all carrom men, regardless of color. The nine carrom men of one color are worth one point each and the nine carrom men of the other color are worth two points each. The red queen is worth five points and may only be captured by pocketing another carrom man on the same or subsequent strike. A player reaching 17 or more points is the winner, otherwise the winner is the player with the most points after all carrom men have been pocketed.

Answer 3

Carrom is a board game similar to billiard. The object of carrom is to strike the group of nine disks into the board four pockets. Not to be confused with carom billiards, which is played on a special billiard table with no pockets.

Answer 4

Carrom powder is needed to keep the striker and coins sliding ... Objective is to pocket all the coins. You score 1 (one) point for each coin you pocket. . its a game played with white and black coins and one red coin- you will have to strike it with striker - if you are a good player you can send those coins into 4 holes situated in corners of the board.

Answer 5

carrom is board in which there are 4 sides we have to hit with stricker

Answer 6

buy the carrom and play with your frds in india . its really intertesting game.

Answer 7

The details are very much covered by 'bhuvan'. I used to play it during my childhood with frnds n siblings. It is also called 'finger billiards'

Answer 8

a pool like game

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrom

Answer 10

a game similar to pool