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Patolli means A board game, similar to pachisi, played by the Aztecs..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A board game, similar to pachisi, played by the Aztecs..
There is also the resemblance between the Hindu game of pachesi and the Mexica patolli, so close as to be virtually identical.
Mesoamericans played a game called patolli, which has been likened to parcheesi.[…]Post-Conquest accounts also indicate patolli had religious meaning, and calendrical, numerological, cosmological, and astronomical symbolism determined the rules of play.
Patolli is a Mesoamerican game so similar to South Asian pachisi that many anthropologists considered it evidence of a precolonial contact between the peoples of the Old and New Worlds (Figure 5.2).
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Patolli means A board game, similar to pachisi, played by the Aztecs..
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There is also the resemblance between the Hindu game of pachesi and the Mexica patolli, so close as to be virtually identical.
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