The playing surfaces of a carrom board suppose to be of plywood or could even be of any other wood. The only criterion is it should be equally smooth and not less than 8 mm in thickness and of a smallest amount of 73.50 cm and an utmost of 74 cm square with its surface totally smooth. A Carrom Board should be capable to have at least three and a half runs of a usually smooth Striker of 15 Gms weight, when hit with the greatest force, from one of the Bale lines, to the contradictory frame of the Carrom Board.



Frames

Adjoining the playing base of the Carrom Board there have to be wooden frames with in curved corners shaped of Rosewood or any other hard wood with high-quality resistance, with a minimum height of 1.90 cm and a greatest of 2.54 cm from the playing base. The breadth of the frame should not be less than 6.35 cm and even not be more than 7.60 cm. Suitable bracings shall be offered beneath the playing base and fastened with the frame.

Pockets

The pockets of the four corners where carrom coin drops of the Carrom Board should be round inwardly and not outwardly and be of 4.45 cm in diameter with allowable disparity of not more than 0.15 cm. The piece of plywood adjacent the corners of the frame should be cut off.

Arrows

There should be four Arrows, all black in color, of not more than 0.15 cm thickness should be drawn at each corner of the Carrom Board at an position of 45 degrees to any of the adjoining sides and each of them should pass through the gap among the two Base circles and point towards the centre of the strike leaving a obvious distance of 5.00 cm from the edge of the other pocket.

Centre Circle

Exactly in the centre of the Carrom Board there has to be a circle of 3.18 cm in diameter drawn only in black color with admissible variation of 0.16 cm. It need to be known as the Centre Circle and shall be colored in red.

Outer Circle

A circle of 17.00 cm in diameter with the centre point of the Carrom as its centre should be drawn black in colour with an admissible variation of 0.30 cm. It shall be called the Outer Circle. Any pretty design in this circle is also permissible.