Pachisi Game Rules

Legacy Wham Bam rules snapshot. Review and update in the visual editor before publishing.

Entering a Tourney

• Ins are taken and placed as they ask in. Do not enter the tourney until you are ready to sit.
• Hosts may vary how they assign tables and may fill one table first or spread players across tables.
• Please do not ask in if you or your pard are still in another tourney, another room, or not in the room.
• If you ask for a sub or time out, you may not enter the next tourney until the tournament you were playing in is finished, except where the format specifically allows a teamie to enter you.
• Gagged players may have another player ask the host to enter them.
• Please sit quickly once assigned. Seat choice rules are left to the host.
• Once seated, do not change seat colour in singles or team colours in pards unless the format/rules allow the change with your pard.
• Players are responsible for watching the lobby and choosing when to IN if they want or wish to avoid a particular table or colour.
• If you OUT after your original seat has been filled, you cannot IN again for that same tournament.
• You may not OUT, change nicknames, and re-enter under another nickname.
• If you enter a pard format as a single, you may be assigned another single waiting for a pard.
• If your pard leaves before ALL START, you have until ALL START to find another pard or the host may assign one.
• If a blocked player is assigned to your table, you must unblock or stand so the player can sit, or you may forfeit according to host instructions.
• Players are timed from ALL START/assignment to start their game and can be replaced when the allowed time expires.

Gameplay

• It is each player's responsibility to know the format and make sure table options are correct. Call the host if settings are wrong.
• There is no reseating once all four players have completed a turn, except where the host determines a game cannot continue because of a glitch.
• If blocks are accidentally enabled in a no-block format, players may not use them.
• Play in a timely manner. Hosts may ask a player with connection problems to reboot and return within the allowed time.
• Kibitz rules vary by format. PRO qualifying events, BOSP-era events, monthly playoffs/finals and TOC historically did not allow kibitzing.
• No table talk. The tournament host's ruling determines whether something is table talk.
• Good sportsmanship is expected.
• Report boots to the host and do not use Remove unless instructed.

Webmaster note: This is the first cleaned migration pass. Compare against the old page and edit any wording/rules that have changed since the legacy site.