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Both circles should have the pieces alternating in colour.

The remaining twelve pieces are positioned around the inner circle of six pieces, so that each outer piece touches the inner circle. Six pieces are put around the Queen directly in a circle, each touching the Queen and their neighbours. To begin, the Queen is placed in the centre of the board. The game is played by two opponents sitting opposite each other. The person who plays first aims to pocket the white pieces. If the opponent guesses correctly which hand, the opponent chooses who goes first, otherwise the player concealing the piece chooses. To decide who goes first, one player should hold a piece concealed in one hand. On some boards, potato starch, chalk dust or other lubricant is used to make the pieces slide more easily over the surface of the board - the most popular lubricant is boric acid.

People often own their own strikers which can also be made of bone or ivory and which are normally somewhat heavier than the pieces although can vary in weight from half as heavy to four times as heavy as a piece. The smooth wooden pieces are slightly smaller than the the striker which is between 3.8cm and 4.4cm in diameter. There are nine dark or black pieces and nine light or white pieces plus a red piece called the "Queen". This thin rectangle with circles at either end is called the "baseline" and the baseline nearest to a player is the area that the player's striker must be played from. They should be about 3.8cm apart and the long thin area between them is terminated just before the diagonal foul lines at either end by a red circle of 3.8cm diameter. Outside the circles and a short way in from each side of the board are two straight lines parallel with the edge of the board.

In the centre are two concentric circles - the centre circle is the size of a piece, the main circle having a diameter about six times larger. Two lines are drawn on the table along the diagonals. In each corner is a circular hole that can be 51mm in diameter and underneath each hole is a net to catch the pieces in a similar way to a snooker table. A Carrom board is a square smooth flat wooden board that can be 72cm or 74cm square and which should be positioned 60 - 70cm above the ground. The following dimensions vary considerably and are given only as an example of a tournament board.