Zero visible openings can mean twenty-fiveSourced
Pachisi’s name remembers a shell score
Indian pachisi takes its name from the Hindi word for twenty-five. Under the six-cowrie rules, a throw with no shell openings facing upward scores twenty-five. The score is not merely the number of visible openings.
A zero count can carry a high assigned value.
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