Traditional Board Games contests - a little like WWE

Traditional board games when played by family members on a late Sunday morning or by friends who have gathered around ?the embroidered square cloth often degenerate into the kind of fracas that is normally associated with World Wrestling Entertainment ( one prefers the earlier name, World Wrestling Federation which has a lot of gravitas to it)....Like sound and fury with nary a blow being given or taken.

Like John Cena and Triple XXX or The Rock, the players square off on either side of a pachisi board. The counters and ?the dice are placed. A coin is tossed to decided who is going to throw the dice first.

?That?s when the trouble starts.

?The various family members who have divided themselves into two camps now start baying for blood.

?One of the players now calls ?foul? and claims that the coin was tossed in such a way that it would come up heads. The coin is now examined for crookedness! Everything is above board.

?Now the players begin to brag with one consistently needling the other. The other assumes the kind of hurt look like The Rock assumes just when he is about to go ballistic.

The play begins with the throwing of dice. Another verbal fracas now ?beings.

?The warring camps now demand that the dice be checked. ?How do I know if the dice are not loaded?? asks one who has spent a dozen years in New York and has seen ?The Godfather? a hundred times... he even speaks from the corner of his mouth.... ?With what? replies another defiantly who does not have the foggiest idea since he has not traveled beyond Mysore and has confessed to not having seen ?The Godfather.?

Thus the game proceeds in fits and starts, with advice freely given to the players apart from insults of the funnier kind.

Another bout of verbal jousting ensues with bystanders egging on the contestants.

The game is yet to get underway and the counters yet to start moving.

At last, a couple of hours later, the game gets underway and another hour later , there is one winner and one sore loser.

The winner pumps his hand in the air while the loser gives out a mock roar ?that has the eerie resemblance to a Neanderthal man crying out his pain as the wooly mammoth makes its escape with a spear hanging from its rear!

Losers in board game do not go gently into the night ( Apologies to Dylan Thomas). There is a little pomp as he or she primps, looks as though he has been stabbed in the back when the referee was not looking even though the bystanders do.

In fact you can see a touch of Hamlet and Lear in the loser?s bearing while the victor smirks and preens just like the winner in a WWE tournament ! ?

The Kreedaa Kaushalya ?Mela of traditional board games will not be WWE but an awesome smorgasbord of board games on display and for sale ?organised by Ramsons Kala Pratishtana (RKP) ?in Mysore.

Kreedaa Kaushalya which began on May 10th ?will go on till May 26th ?at the RKP?s Pratima ?Gallery located above Aamarapalli on the Nazarbad main road.

This ?celebration of board games of India is just one of the many initiatives of RKP to revitalise the handicrafts industry of the country and provide a fillip to crafts persons across the country. You could look up the website of Ramsons for more details.

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Source: http://kreedaakaushalya.blogspot.com/2013/05/traditional-board-games-contests-little.html

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