How to play Kanche

Updated 18 August 2026

This is one common schoolyard way to play. Your street may have done it different.

The flick

Press your shooter, pull back, let go. Power is how far you pull. Aim is the line away from your finger.

Ring Out

Shooters start outside the chalk. Knock a pot marble out of the ring and it is yours. If your shooter also leaves the ring, you keep the marble but you lose the extra turn. Stay inside after a take and you shoot again.

Gaddha

First, sink your own marble in the hole. That player becomes striker. Then hit the pots from the rim. What you hit, you keep. Miss, and the other player can steal the right by sinking their own marble.

Grounds

Maidan is dust. It grips. Gali is cement, fast, with walls you can bank. Terrace tiles are a bit slick. Kankar is the hard ground: pebbles and ruts that break a straight line.

Friends

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