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Champul is a Strategical 'Race Mini game' where in two to four users race their respective coins on a board of 5x5 squares to reach the inner most square. The movement of coins is controlled by throw of four cowrie shells, hence it is a mini game of possibility. Since each user has four coins, he can decide which coin to move, hence it also comes under strategical games. Everyone remembers playing a mini game of Ludo or Snakes & Ladders be it on a hot summer day or a cool winter evening. These board mini games that form such a beloved part of our childhood actually take their origins much far behind in history. One such indoor fun mini game is Champul, a traditional Indian board game. 🎮GAME MODES: 🏆Single User versus Computer 🏆2 Player 🏆3 Player 🏆4 Player 🏆Full Manual Champul is a board mini game consisting of a 5x5 grid of squares. Number of users needed to play it? It can be played with two or three or four players. Each user has four coins distinguishable from coins of another players. Single user can also play on application ver of mini game here. How do the coins move? Movement of coins is anti-clockwise in outer squares and is clockwise in inner squares. Each user starts from a square marked with home symbol and tries to reach the innermost square with all the coins. Users use four cowrie shells as a dice. The movement of coins depends on the number obtained by throwing four cowrie shells All possible movement numbers are 1,2,3,4,8 
 How to win? Player who reaches the innermost square first, with all four coins, wins. Is there any action? If a player's coin lands on a square having single coin of other user then the coin of other user is killed and is sent back to it's starting point. Any scheme for additional turns? A user gets an other turn to play if he gets either 4 or 8 from shells A user gets an other turn to play if he cuts a coin of other player. Also, if a coin of some user enters the innermost square then he gets an other possibility to play. This mini game is called by different names in various languages in various regions. Dyootaardha - Samskrutam Chauka Baara - Kannada - Old Mysuru region Katte Mane - Kannada - Old Mysuru rural region Gatta Mane - Kannada - Old Mysuru rural region Chakaara - Kannada - North Karnataka Chakka - Kannada - North Karnataka Ashta Chemma - Telugu Taayam / Daayam - Tamil Nanku Katta Taayam - 5 House Chaukabara Aaru Katta Taayam - 7 House Chaukabara Changaabu - Rajasthan (Jaipur) Challas - Rajasthan (Jaipur) Pat Sogayya or Pat Sogya - Marathi (Kolhapur) Challas Aath - Marathi (Nashik) Kavidi Kali - Malayalam - Kerala Kanna Dudi - Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Khaddi Khadda - Punjabi - Punjab Baara Atte - 7 House Chaukabra - Konkani Chomal Ishto - Gujarati Contents: 4 sets of 4 coins (total 16) + 4 cowrie shells. This mini game can be played by either 2, 3 or 4 users. Each user gets 4 coins of same colour and keeps it in his home. Goal: To reach one’s all 4 coins to innermost square, first.