Games like Gilli-Danda helped inspire the American pastime of baseball and board games like Ludo, derived from an even older game called Pachisi, inspired today's board game of Sorry.
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The histories of all the major board games played today from all over the world. Including Western board games favourites like Chess (descended from Shaturanga), Draughts (descended from Alquerque), the ancient Egyptian game of Nine Mens Morris, and Backgammon and childrens favourites Snakes and Ladders, and Chinese Checkers (a modern version of Halma).
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Although you may associate chess as a game of wits played between two European monarchs, the game actually comes from south Asia. Chess can trace its roots to a game called chaturanga, which was played in India around 600 A.D. Chinese chess (xiangqi) and Japanese chess came into existence by 800 A.D. Circa 1200, Europeans began adapting the Indian game.