How to Play Carrom
Carrom is a strategic game that is fun to play and is suitable for 2 to 4 players of all ages. It originated in the United Kingdom and has found a home in many other countries. The rules are easy to follow.
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Instructions
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Set up the game board by arranging the carrom men with the red queen in the center and the whites lined up to form a "y" around the queen. The blacks replace the empty spaces around the queen and the whites.
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Sit on the side of the board opposite from your opponent. If you are playing with 4 players there should be 2 players from the same team on each side. You can only strike from the side of the board that you sit on.
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Break first if you are the player who is playing whites or flip a coin to decide who will go first.
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Sink your pieces and your turn continues.
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Pocket the red queen at any point in the game after you sink your first piece and must be sunk before your last piece in order for it to count. After pocketing your queen, you must sink one of your pieces, thereby 'covering' it, into any pocket in the next shot, or the queen is returned to the center.
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Cover the queen and continue play until all of the pieces are cleared from the board.
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Tips & Warnings
The striker may not touch the diagonal arrow line.
Sinking the striker costs you one piece and your turn. But if you sink a piece in the same shot, then two pieces come up and you shoot again.
