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How to Play Carroms
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You’ll learn to play Carroms, a tabletop game where two players use a striker to pocket their wooden discs before their opponent does. The game starts with a coin toss, and turns continue as long as you keep scoring. It’s a straightforward but strategic game perfect for casual play.
Key steps
- Place 9 carroms in a hexagon with the red queen in the center.
- Flip a coin to decide who plays first (winner picks white carroms).
- Sit at one side of the board and strike from that baseline only.
- Use the striker to pocket your carroms—your turn lasts as long as you score.
- After sinking one carrom, aim for the red queen on your next shot.
- If you miss the queen, it returns to the center; if you hit it, you must pocket a carrom next.
- Play until one player pockets all their carroms and the queen wins.
Questions & answers
How many carroms are used in a game?
Nine carroms plus the red queen are arranged in a hexagon.
What happens if I sink the queen but miss my next shot?
The queen returns to the center, and play continues normally.
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Carroms is a game similar to billiards but is played on a plywood board using wooden pucks called carroms. Players use a striker to push their carroms into pockets at the board's corners before their opponents sink theirs.
Step 1: Arrange the carroms
Arrange the carroms in a hexagon at the center of the board with the red queen in the center.
Step 2: Flip a coin
Flip a coin to determine which player goes first. The winner plays the white carroms.
Step 3: Take a seat
Seat yourself at one side of the board. You will only be allowed to initiate carrom strikes from that side of the board.
Step 4: Try to sink your carroms
Move the striker with your fingers from your baseline as you try to sink your carroms. Your turn continues as long as you continue to sink carroms.
Step 5: Try to sink the red queen
When you have sunk one of your carroms, try to sink the red queen.
Tip
If you sink the red queen, you must sink one of your carroms on the next shot. Otherwise the queen is returned to the center of the board.
Step 6: Continue the game
Continue the game until one player has sunk all of their carroms and the red queen has been sunk. That player is the winner of the game.
Did You Know?
The first international carroms match was held in the 1960s, when a team from India competed against one from Sri Lanka.
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Watch more Board Games videos: howcast.com/videos/316991-How-to-Play-Carroms
Carroms is a game similar to billiards but is played on a plywood board using wooden pucks called carroms. Players use a striker to push their carroms into pockets at the board's corners before their opponents sink theirs.
Step 1: Arrange the carroms
Arrange the carroms in a hexagon at the center of the board with the red queen in the center.
Step 2: Flip a coin
Flip a coin to determine which player goes first. The winner plays the white carroms.
Step 3: Take a seat
Seat yourself at one side of the board. You will only be allowed to initiate carrom strikes from that side of the board.
Step 4: Try to sink your carroms
Move the striker with your fingers from your baseline as you try to sink your carroms. Your turn continues as long as you continue to sink carroms.
Step 5: Try to sink the red queen
When you have sunk one of your carroms, try to sink the red queen.
Tip
If you sink the red queen, you must sink one of your carroms on the next shot. Otherwise the queen is returned to the center of the board.
Step 6: Continue the game
Continue the game until one player has sunk all of their carroms and the red queen has been sunk. That player is the winner of the game.
Did You Know?
The first international carroms match was held in the 1960s, when a team from India competed against one from Sri Lanka.
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Howcast published this 1:32 video tutorial on November 6, 2010. It has been watched 2,639,052 times on YouTube.
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