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Posted on 02/10/2020 5:06:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
3100BC? I think there’s a Monopoly game that has beem going on since then?
Sewer lid snakes and ladders?
If there was, they’d still be playing a game.
“bears a slight similarity to the Phaestos Disc”
Or, something a middle schooler would make in art class.
What? No mention of Hounds and Jackals?
Didn’t these guys watch “The Ten Commandments”?
That game was a real thing, you know...
The game of “GO” was invented by Chinese Emperor Yao around 2356–2255 BC.
Hi.
Is Tavla (backgammon) mentioned?
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Glad that my 6 and 8 year old are in chess club (where they play chess, backgammon, and checkers). Good games for quarantine ;)
I’m a fan of Irving Finkel, who figured out how the game of Ur was probably played:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Finkel
"The Negev is weak. I will put the hurt on The Negev."
"I am from Negev. You not say Negev weak!"
That resembles a fibonacci spiral.
I remember a story back a few years ago about a game from Ancient China that was surprisingly complex. Sort of a cross between Chess and a modern war game, the closest analogy I could think of was “Stratego”. There were various units such as archers and each had a different value and was strong or weak against various other units. Unfortunately as I recall all but a few of the rules have been lost over time and only the gameboard and some of the playing pieces survive, so it is impossible to recreate the game as it was truly played, although some have tried to come up with modern rules for it.
I saw a painting on an ancient Greek vase showing two heroes of the Trojan war playing “draughts”.
It looked like checkers to me.
Backgammon is mentioned
Yes, there is an Athenian vase from about 530 B.C. showing Achilles and Aias (Ajax) playing a game. Achilles is saying “four” and Aias is saying “three.” Conveniently the vase painter wrote their names and what they were saying on the vase.
I believe they are overlooking the most ancient game of all, probably due to the fact the playing pieces are common coins and drinking vessels. It’s known today as quarters.
Thanks.
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Woe to the future archeologist who unearths ‘Hungry,Hungry Hippo’.
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