Board Games by Vanikar

Online multiplayer board games from across the centuries, on one beautiful table. Play live with friends and family, or against the computer. Board Games by Vanikar brings Snakes and Ladders together with the ancient boards it grew from, the Tamil classics, two sowing games, backgammon, mahjong, sea battle, reversi, the dice games farkle and yatzy, and a trading game that runs from medieval caravans to the stars. SIXTEEN GAMES • Snakes and Ladders: the modern game, on seven boards • Paramapadham: the Tamil elder, played through the night of Vaikunta Ekadasi, thrown with stick dice • Gyan Chaupar: the game of knowledge, seventy-two squares • Gyan Bazi: the Jain board of eighty-four squares, the vows for ladders and the passions for snakes • Shatranj al-Arifin: the chess of the gnostics, a hundred squares along the Sufi path • Dhayam: the Tamil race on a cross, thrown with the dayakattai,…