Mumbai based kids spends millions on real estate sector
Mumbai kids spends millions on real estate
Well they are only gamers who are ready to hook everything from trying to be a castle owner or to be a Mongol warlord. It’s very less known secret of Mumbai, which was found by Ismat Tahseen.
On some special days you can easily find a group of 20 or more members on a single table, where they have got millions among them to make a few deals, which can leave older folk in the shade. It’s two hours strategy game where these kids have to negotiate on deal and have to use maximum resource to make a huge profit. They are playing game which is known as the Settlers of Catan. It’s perfect time when you should say Hello!! to Mumbai Board Gamers. Karan Vashisht, one of main founder of Mumbai Board Gamers stated that, “Now it’s time when we should forget the classic games such as; Ludo and Monopoly because the game which we are playing is the game of moments”.
Find variety with every roll of the dice!!!
The basic concept of game is very simple as it involves a simple concept of buying and selling of stocks and if you will play your card in right manner, so you can rev up your demand as 16 to 25 year old people do. In game you will find a lot of backstabbing as well as treachery, where everyone will aim to hold their card and opponent aims to play a single stroke, which can diminish the stock of competitors. It is not a game of kids as he explains that for younger group (under 12 years) there is Pitchcar, which is located at F1 racing track and whoever will make finish first at 8X5 circuit which is made up of wood, will win. This group was started with four members and now there are 863 club members in all over the city. Karan, who play game with name of K2 talks about his own journey by stating that “I have realized that there are huge thirsts among people who want to play strategy games. And this is the game which requires your vision and minds both in proper manner. From past many years we are playing games on computers and tablets now it’s time to play them physically, one – on – one. We have brought down this game from abroad and in 2012 we experienced positive response as it was very first gaming session”.
Rules to play the game:
Recently, a few board game events which were organized at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum at Byculla saw a packed hall because it was open forum and all kinds of folks participated in it. However; Kamlesh Avasare, organizer of the game stated that “We also have bad experience as we found that few guys were only trying to hook up with some girls and due to that we asked them to leave the place. And since then we have rules to not to tolerate the spoilsports, flying tempers and dishonesty. People know that we have very strict mandates such as; “Do not cheat”, “Be courteous to everyone” and “Never Steal”.
Price for registration:
Prashant Maheshwari, who is another founder member, met up with another gamer Mohit Goel, who operates a website, and export and import wide range of board games in India at an affordable price. However; according to Mohit, its not easy because import duty is too high which is about 60 to 80 per cent and to overcome from this huge price we have been musing over levying a small registration fee. As our game events take place at a café and mini restaurants, where we provide mini meals too, however; some regular places are; XVII Tea Room, Zen Café at Lower Parel and Doolally Taproom at Bandra.
Future plan:
There are great plans for next season as they are planning to organize small marathon session which will end up with food, prizes and game giveaways, reveals Karan. Now gamers from other metro cities such as; Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi are showing their interest in these games.
