Word: parcheesi
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...then appetite, finally ardor. Convinced that "some dark thing was overtaking him," he buys a rifle and lugs it everywhere. As the child within her grows, Ellen retreats to her own childhood, resurrecting the toys in the lodge attic. Seeking reassurance, the pair try the ritual of childhood games-Parcheesi, Chinese checkers-then break off even this relationship. Chris teaches Ellen to shoot. At last all they share is the gun, as if the final game were to be a game of kill. More and more, the birth they await seems a kind of impending death...
...County. As a freshman in politics he met James Dowsey, also a Nassau County Republican. At Dowsey's home in Manhasset, Hall met his host's daughter, Gladys, a pretty mother of two, who was separated from her husband. After her divorce Hall courted her over the parcheesi board in the Dowsey parlor until the summer of 1933, when Gladys went to her father's camp in the Adirondacks. Lonesome Len chartered a small plane and took off in hot pursuit. In the mountains the pilot had trouble finding a landing strip, finally came down...
...Rigid Tongue. What is Scrabble? It is a game, its defenders say, that combines the cerebrations of anagrams and crosswords with the competitive joys of such older indoor sports as Monopoly and Parcheesi. A player gets seven counters in the draw, each with a letter and a number. The numbers relate to the letters' frequency of use. The five vowels count only one point each, while "Z" counts ten. A player moves by spelling out a word on the board, and his score is the numerical value of the counters plus the value of any premium squares...
...based on real-estate tradings, and G-men, invented by onetime G-Man Melvin Purvis, were the first non-escapist parlor sports since just after the turn of the Century when Bunco and Pit, based on Chicago's wheat trading, were highly fashionable. Bulls & Bears, played on a parcheesi-like board, concerns stock purchases, pools, dividends and taxes. The object is to acquire corners on as many stocks as possible, force other players into bankruptcy. Dice determine stock prices...
...game is played something like parcheesi, tokens being moved around a spaced board by throwing dice. Spaces are marked off into streets, water works, jail, etc. When a player lands on an unoccupied street he may buy it with scrip money, thereafter levy rent upon any other player who lands on it. If he acquires two or three adjoining streets, he may start a development, building houses and hotels, which enable him to charge higher & higher rents. Since each player starts with the same amount of scrip, it is necessary to have a nice sense of liquidity, investing enough...