How a Game Named Teer Is Changing People's Life in North East India
How a Game Named Teer Is Changing People's Life in North East India
An Archery Game Called Teer Is Responsible For Lakhs Of Rupees Changing Hands Each Day in Meghalaya, North east Part of India. This has created daily lively hood for more than thousand families in Shillong and Juwai. Peoples are crazy for teer like thirst for water in desert.
An Archery Game Called Teer Is Responsible For Lakhs Of Rupees Changing Hands Each Day in Meghalaya, North east Part of India. This has created daily lively hood for more than thousand families in Shillong and Juwai. Peoples are crazy for teer like thirst for water in desert.
About Teer
Teer is an archery game played in an interest of gambling boom. This game is played in ground. There are two rounds on this game. One is called as first round and other is second round. In ground first of all the selected people of the teer board target the point via archery means teer, once they complete then the house got counted, then ending. As for example the first round result is 24 then 2 is house and 4 is ending. Apart from ground, people play this game by buying tickets, few games pay seventy percentage, few pay eighty percentage. These percentage are decided by local area owners, who just take the teer result from internet and pay the winners, these local owners run this at their own risk, sometimes they gain sometimes they loose. But players are very excited to play. Many people run their families by playing teer, their calculations of buying numbers are awesome, moreover few websites are also provide target numbers, after their expert's calculate.
this is how people throw archery to target
How Teer is played
The ground where teer is played is divided into a field and an area for battle nut shop and betting booths. The field consisted of a dirt semicircle shaded by an awning, which faced a wooden post in a corner of the lot. Underneath the awning sat many men in single file, ringing the field, drawing back bows and sharpening arrows. Each round, 50 archers mainly from villages fire arrows at the target not less than 300 arrows and not more than 1,000. 5 Teer officials from local archery association then count the arrows and take the last two-digits of the number as the round score. If 748 arrows hit the target in round 1, the recorded score is 48. The odds for correctly predicting one round are 80/1 and the 'fourcast,' a 4-digit number returns at a rate of 4,000/1. The archers are paid 300 rupees for a day's work.
Association with dream
Teer players often predict their winning numbers by the dream if they had seen anything last night. This is very much true that if some one dreams of some predefined events in his or her sleep last night, he/she will rush to teer booki counter next morning for booking the numbers with probably nasty amounts of Rupees in a hope to win the highest.
where teer is played
Shillong, Juwai, the important cities of Meghalaya, have a gambling habit. Yes this is Teer which is a curious phenomenon that blends archery and the interpretation of dreams, has got people hooked. Men, women, and even children run the thousands of Teer stalls throughout the city - along the main roads, tucked away behind corners, up against tea stalls even in Bicycle or Rickshaw - offering odds as high as 4,000/1 and doing a very brisk business. A single common phrase can be seen on flex printing or blackboards across the cities, villages over vehicles, scrawled in countless handwritings or in print and displayed proudly at the front of each Teer stall: "First Round: 26; Second Round 73."