Carrom

About Carrom

Carrom is the striking-and-pocketing board game played across South Asia, here on a 3D tournament-size board: a 74 cm lacquered playing surface, 3.18 cm coins and a heavier 4.13 cm striker. Pieces slide on a powdered surface rather than rolling, so the simulation uses real sliding friction, the true mass difference between striker and coins (the striker follows through after a full hit), soft rebounds off the wooden frame and corner pockets the size of the real ones. The rules are those of a singles board: white breaks, pocketing your own coin earns another turn, the queen must be covered, pocketing the striker costs you a coin, and the board goes to whoever clears their nine coins after the queen is covered. Play the computer, which places its striker and judges its cuts more precisely as you clear levels, pass the device between two players, or play online with every flick refereed by the server.