How to Play Carrom Board Game?
Among the two sets of colored discs – white and black, each side is supposed to choose a particular set. This is generally decided by ‘calling the carrom-men’ method, wherein the referee hides a white and a black disc in either hands and the player is supposed to identify in which hand the white disc is, or simply a coin toss. The person who wins the toss starts the game.
After choosing a particular set of colored discs, the players are supposed to pocket all the discs of their set, as well as the queen, using the striker. The striker, as its name suggests, is used to strike the discs, to propel them into the pockets at the four corners of the carrom board. The striker can only be moved by flicking it with fingers. Every time the player pockets a disc from his own set, he gets another chance, until he is not able to pocket any more discs. If he pockets a disc belonging to the opponent, he automatically loses a chance, and the opponent takes over.
According to the standard carrom board game rules, constituted by International Carrom Federation (ICF), the player has to pocket all his discs as well as the queen. On doing this, he either wins the particular board or earns some points and marches towards victory. The queen, though requires a ‘cover’, which means an additional disc belonging to his own set has to be pocketed either simultaneously with the queen, or immediately after the queen. This invariably means that the queen has to be pocketed before the last disc belonging to his own set. If, even by mistake, the player pockets the last disc of his set before taking the queen, he forfeits the board or the points.
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