I think we need to delve deeper for meaning here. Let us look at some definitions:
"Parcheesi is an American version of the Ancient game of Pachisi, the national game of India, in which you race around a track on the game board, attempting to block your opponents while moving your markers to the goal. The game is also known as Pachisi, Parchisi, Parchesi, and Twenty-Five, and is a descendent of the older game of Chaupar."
"CHUTES AND LADDERS is the game of rewards and consequences. As kids travel along the game path, they encounter situations that reward them for good deeds by letting them climb the ladders or punish them for misbehaving by sending them down chutes. All the while, they are learning to recognize numbers and count to 100."
Truly, emm's board (soon bound for the JHSDCA) is a lesson in life. In having the Parcheesi game peel away to Chutes and Ladders, this is representative of everyone's desire for a return to the innocence and security of childhood. However, once we are adults, that return can never be complete. Thus the Parcheesi game clings to the board revealing only part of the C&L game. In addition, the children on the C&L board aren't as bright and shiny, nor are they smiling since we understand as adults that their joy is based upon simplicity which we no longer possess. The two games are like the two (or more) stages of life. Just as we would never get rid of our childhood, many adults would not want to go back and go through it all again, given the chance. Both exist within us just as both exist on the board.
It is also interesting that both games are chase games. It is as if we are chasing things throughout our entire lives. In Parcheesi, the worst that happens is either you are knocked back by your opponent or you remain stagnant. In a way, C&L is more adult than Parcheesi since not only can you be thwarted by your opponent but you can cause your own downfall (get sent back down the chute). It seems these two games could easily be combined. Maybe the board is telling you to embrace the two sides of yourself.
And I hope you all realize that all of that was total bunk.
By the way, that wash shum great Peeno Nwar...
