Edris A Jin

Stewart Culin states the name, meaning "game of the Jinn", is derived in part from the prophet Enoch, identified by Muslim scholars as Idris.^[1]

The game is played on a cloth board with "a parti-colored diagram with four arms each having four rows of eight squares, each connected at the ends by a diagonal row of eight squares, the whole forming an octagonal figure." The central area of 16 squares is designated the serai.^[1] Each player has three cowrie shells as pieces, one of which is designated the "chief" and the remaining two the "soldiers"; four more cowries are thrown to determine movement, but Culin did not describe how that was determined.^[1]

• Finkel, Irving L. (2002). "Pachisi in Arab Garb" (PDF). Board Game Studies. 5: 65–78. ISSN 1566-1962. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
• James Masters: The Online Guide to Traditional Games; Pachisi (Ludo etc.)

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