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Shoh, a game from Sikkim

27 October 2010 11 Comments

It is a traditional game of Sikkim, called SHOH and is very popular among worker class.

This dice game Shoh is played using two dice which are shaken in a wooden bowl which is then upturned on a circular leather ‘plate’ with a loud thump and a shout. The score is kept using small cowries (comes from a Hindi word “कौड़ी” or “कौरी”).

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.Men playing traditional game called Shoh.

One can also play it with small amount of money.
Minimum number of players are 2 and the maximum number is four.
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11 Comments »

Makk said:

Hey tell us that how to play..

# 27 October 2010 at 11:20 AM

Nisha (author) said:

Makk,
Welcome here.

Aah, wait for my next post. Video is coming for you.

# 27 October 2010 at 11:24 AM

Bindhu Unny said:

We call it Kavadi in Malayalam, used by astrologers.
Didn’t know there’s a game using this.

# 27 October 2010 at 11:45 AM

Nisha (author) said:

Bindhu,
Yeah, the spelling differs only by an alphabet. And there are plenty of games using these Kauwdis, especially in east India.

# 27 October 2010 at 1:48 PM

magiceye said:

interesting!
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# 27 October 2010 at 4:59 PM

Bikram said:

interesting .. i wud surly want to learn seems the family can sit and play it all together

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# 27 October 2010 at 8:53 PM

Nisha (author) said:

MgicEye,
It is.

Bikram,
We could not fully understand the game. When I asked them, there was language barrier.

After coming back I tried to find on the net but without any success. Whatever I could gather from them, including the name, is here. They did not tell me about wooden bowl or leather plate. It was me who looked at those things curiously and found out.

I have taken a small video which will come as my next post.

# 27 October 2010 at 9:44 PM

A said:

Interesting post Nisha

# 27 October 2010 at 11:22 PM

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# 28 October 2010 at 12:31 PM