Did the board games Taj Mahal and Sáhkku originate in the same country?
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Taj Mahal (board game) Taj Mahal is a German-style board game for 3–5 players designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 2000 by Alea in German.
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Sáhkku Sáhkku is a board game among the Sami people. The game is particularly traditional among the Coast Sámi of northern Norway and Russia, but is also known to have been played in other parts of Sápmi.
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Luksong tinik Luksong tinik (English: "jumping over thorns") is a popular game in the Philippines. It is originated in Cabanatuan city, Philippines, played by two teams with equal numbers of players. Each team designates a leader, the "nanay" (mother), while the rest of the players are called "anak" (children). The players chosen to be "nanay" are usually the ones who can jump the highest. The game involves players sitting on the ground and other players jumping over parts of their body.
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Punjabi Kabaddi Punjabi Kabaddi (Punjabi: ; ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਕਬੱਡੀ ), also called Kauddi (Punjabi: ਕੌਡੀ ) is a contact sport that originated in the Punjab region. There are a number of traditional Punjabi Kabaddi styles traditionally played in the Punjab region. Circle style, also called Punjab Circle Style is played at state and international level and is governed by the Amateur Circle Kabaddi Federation of India.
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Paandi Paandi, also known as Pandi or Nondi, is a regional hopscotch game played in rural parts of India (such as Tamil Nadu), Sri Lanka and also in certain other countries with large numbers of immigrant Indians. The game is played only for fun and does not involve serious rules or regulations.
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Shax (board game) Shax (pronounced "Shah"), also known as Jar, Djelga or Mororova in some areas, is a board game played in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Somalia. With its origins dating back centuries, it is still popular today.
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Ajrak Ajrak (Sindhi: اجرڪ‎ ) is a name given to a unique form of blockprinted shawls and tiles found in Sindh; Kutch, Gujarat; and Barmer, Rajasthan in India. These shawls display special designs and patterns made using block printing by stamps. Common colours used while making these patterns may include but are not limited to blue, red, black, yellow and green. Over the years, "ajraks" have become a symbol of the Sindhi culture and traditions.
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Tajpuri State Tajpuri is a town and former minor princely state in Gujarat, western India.
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Pachisi Pachisi (Hindi: पचीसी , Bengali: পাশা ) is a cross and circle board game that originated in ancient India which has been described as the "national game of India". It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells, with the number of shells resting with aperture upwards indicating the number of spaces to move.
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Pittu Garam Pittu Garam (Seven Stones) ( Punjabi:ਪਿੱਠੂ ਗਰਮ, Urdu:, Sindhi: پِٺُو گرم‎ ) is a traditional South Asian game played between two teams. The game is called Lagori in kannada. The game requires a tennis ball and set of seven stones which can be stacked up to form a small tower. The aim of the game is to be able to break the tower and then rebuild it before getting hit by one of the opponent.
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Sua Ghin Gnua Sua Ghin Gnua is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Thailand, formerly known as Siam. Another name for the game is Tigers and Oxen. It is a hunt game played on a 5x5 square grid with only orthogonal lines. One player plays the three tigers, and the other player plays the twelve oxen. The board is empty in the beginning. Players first drop their pieces onto the board, and then are able to move them. The tigers can capture the oxen by the short leap as in draughts and Alquerque, but the oxen attempt to elude and at the same time hem in the tiger. Sua Ghin Gnua most resembles the tiger hunt games (or tiger games) such as Bagh-Chal, Rimau-rimau, Main Tapal Empat, Catch the Hare, and Adugo since they all use a 5 x 5 square grid. But tiger games technically consist of a standard Alquerque board which is a 5 x 5 square grid with several diagonal lines criss-crossing through it which are completely missing in Sua Ghin Gnua. There are however some variants of Catch the Hare which have missing diagonal lines also. Another game that resembles Sua Ghin Gnua is from Myanmar called Tiger and Buffaloes which is a hunt game consisting of a 4 x 4 square grid with no diagonal lines. Myanmar happens to border Thailand geographically so there might be a historical connection between the two games. Another game from Myanmar is Lay Gwet Kyah that is presumed to be similar to Sua Ghin Gnua. Sua Ghin Gnua was briefly described by Stewart Culin, in his book "Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of Games and Implements for Divination Exhibited by the United States National Museum in Connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia 1895" (1898). It's also briefly mentioned by H.J.R. Murray in his book "A History of Chess" (1913). It was also described by R.C. Bell, in his book "Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations" (1969).
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Gymkhana Gymkhana (Hindi: जिमख़ाना , , Bengali: জিমখানা , Urdu: جِمخانہ‎ , Sindhi: جمخانه‎ ) is an Indian term which originally referred to a place of assembly. The meaning then altered to denote a place where skill-based contests were held. "Gymkhana" is an Anglo-Indian expression, which is derived from the Persian word ""Jamat-khana"". Most gymkhanas have a Gymkhana Club associated with them, a term coined during British Raj for gentlemen's club.
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Pahari painting Pahari painting (literally meaning a painting from the mountainous regions: "pahar" means a mountain in Hindi) is an umbrella term used for a form of Indian painting, done mostly in miniature forms, originating from Himalayan hill kingdoms of North India, during 17th-19th century, notably Basohli, Mankot, Nurpur, Chamba, Kangra, Guler, Mandi, and Garhwal. Nainsukh was a famous master of the mid-18th century, followed by his family workshop for another two generations.
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Pasang (game) Pasang is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Brunei. The game is often referred to as Pasang Emas which is actually a software implementation of the traditional board game. The object of this game is to acquire the most points by capturing black and white tokens on the board. Black tokens are worth 1 point, and white tokens are worth 2 points. The board is initially laid out with all 120 black and white tokens in one of over 30 traditional patterns. Players choose a piece called a "ka" which is used to capture the tokens on the board. Each player's "ka" moves around the board capturing as many tokens as possible. As a note, the "kas" are the only mobile pieces in the game. The other pieces are stationary, and are captured by the "kas". Players must capture token(s) during their turn, or lose the game. When all tokens have been captured from the board, the player with the most points is the winner. However, if there are any tokens left on the board, and none can be captured on a player's turn, then that player loses the game, and the other player is the winner.
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Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), branded as Taj Hotels Palaces Resorts Safaris, is an international chain of hotels and resorts headquartered at Express Towers, Nariman Point in Mumbai. Incorporated by the founder of the Tata Group, Jamsetji Tata, in the year 1903, the company is a part of the Tata group, one of India's largest business conglomerates. The Taj group employed over 13000 people in the year 2010.
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Sakrand Sakrand (Sindhi: سڪرنڊ‎ ) is a town in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
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Shelem Shelem(Persian: شلم‎ ‎ "Shělěm"), also called Rok or similar, is an Iranian trick-taking card game with four players in two partnerships, bidding and competing against each other. It is similar to Spades and Hokm, but bidding and trump are declared in every hand by the bidding winner. Both the name and the point structure of this game are similar to the American game Rook, there being a possible connection between the two games, although it is not clear as from which game it derives.
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Taj Mahal (2008 film) Taj Mahal is a 2008 Indian Kannada romantic drama film directed and written by R. Chandru and starring Ajay Rao and Pooja Gandhi. Produced by T. Shivashankar Reddy, the film is Chandru's directoral debut. The film opened on 25 July 2008, and had a 200-day run in Karanataka. Music director Abhiman Roy was awarded the Best Music Director accolade at the Karnataka State Film Awards for his film score. "Taj Mahal" was one of the most successful Kannada-language films of 2008. It was remade in Telugu under the same title.
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Makkah Masjid, Hyderabad Mecca Masjid (Arabic: مسجد مكة‎ ‎ , Urdu: ‎ , Telugu: మక్కా మసీదు ), also Makkah Masjid, is one of the oldest mosques in Hyderabad, Telangana in India, and it is one of the largest masajids in India. Makkah Masjid is a listed heritage building in the old city of Hyderabad, close to the historic landmarks of Chowmahalla Palace, Laad Bazaar, and Charminar.
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Dablot Prejjesne Dablot Prejjesne (also called Dablo) is a two-player strategy board game of the Sámi people, noted to have been played in the Lappland region of Sweden. Dablot Prejessne in Sámi actually means "To play Dablo on a board" . The game represents the struggle between nomadic Sami people and landowners.
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Cartamundi Cartamundi Group, also called "Carta Mundi", is a Belgian company, based in Turnhout, that manufactures, produces and sells board games, card games, collectible card games, packages and playing cards through its manufacturing and sales subsidiaries. The name of the company in Latin means "cards for the world". It is one of the world's largest playing card manufacturers with its core market in western Europe.
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Taj Mahal, Bulandshahar Taj Mahal or Mini Taj Mahal or Qadri's Taj Mahal, officially known as Maqbara Yadgare Mohabbat Tajammuli Begum is a replica of the historic Taj Mahal of Agra located in Kaser Kalan, a small village in Bulandshahar of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by 81 years old a retired postmaster, Faizul Hasan Qadri in the memory of his dead wife Tajamulli Begum, who died due to throat cancer in 2011.