Carrom is a family game that is played on plain, soft/smooth wood surface. Carrom is easy to understand & play and its mostly indoor games. Following are few steps that need to remember while playing this game:
1. You need to put together the carom coin in the middle of the carom board along with all coins and keep the red queen in the midpoint. You need not include the heavy striker to place along with arrangement of coins. At the time after arranging the coin, first turn will be taken by white coin.
2. Striker should be kept in such a way that it should touch the border of the sideline. In order to do this you need to put the striker on the marginal of the carom board so that it will be in contact with both the boundaries of the sideline. You have to flip the striker in the direction of the arranged coins with the help of your fingers and you should try to strike your color coin inside the net pocket.
3. If you strike one of your colors coin and place it inside the net pocket than you will get another chance to play. On the other hand, once your turn comes and if you could not able to make a pocket then you will not get another chance to strike because your turn get over and your opponent will get a turn to play since its his/her turn.
4. After playing for some time, when you have already dump your first coins, you have to hit the red color coin inside the pocket, excluding the last one coin which you must pocket after dumping the queen. The red coin which kept in the midpoint of all coins is called queen. Once you able to deal with queen and dump it into pocket, you get a hold of one more turn and in this additional turn you have to strike one of your pieces and put into the pocket. If you are not able to sink one of your coin after pocketing the queen than the queen will be separated from the pocket and it will pulled back and again get placed on the midpoint of the carom board.
5. In last part of the round, at the time when one player has taken all of the coins of his/her colors and if that players able to manage at last to sink the red color coin then that player get three points as scores and he/she will get one point intended for every opposite coin left on the carom board. Carom game is take part in to 8 rounds or 25 points, either way that comes first. Whoever will score highest points at the closing stages of the game, he/she wins the game.
