The ancient Indian game of the Mahabharata: three long dice, super-pieces and split throws. Team race game on a cross-shaped board. Roll three long dice, split the result among your pieces, and race to return all pieces to the center. Pieces combine into super-pieces for capture immunity.
Every rule of Chaupar below is frontmatter in the rules corpus, played by the race plugin. The board beside each is the game itself, live.
Three long dice. No grace rolls. No castle squares. Super-pieces immune to smaller groups.
engine:
topology:
type: grid
rows: 19
cols: 19
players: [red, yellow, green, blue]
plugin: race
plugins:
chaupar:
routes:
south:
- [11, 9]
- [12, 9]
- [13, 9]
- [14, 9]
- [15, 9]
- [16, 9]
- [17, 9]
- [18, 9]
- [18, 10]
- [17, 10]
- [16, 10]
- [15, 10]
- [14, 10]
- [13, 10]
- [12, 10]
# …Chaupar (Standard)
Every Chaupar variant is playable against the AI or another player.