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China discovers bamboo slips recording rules of ancient board game
Xinhua ^ | March 13, 2019 | Editor: mingmei

Posted on 03/20/2019 9:29:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv
"...and found they recorded the long-lost rules of "liubo", an ancient Chinese board game."

Liubo...the precursor to the more modern game of...Limbo.


21 posted on 03/21/2019 6:04:25 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Cold Heart

If it takes 1000 bamboo strips for the rules, it must be complicated..................


22 posted on 03/21/2019 6:06:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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Advanced Squad Leader has 100s of 8x11 pages of rules. Bet the Chinese game is less convoluted and makes more sense. :D


23 posted on 03/21/2019 7:11:16 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

I have a hard enough time with Checkers...................


24 posted on 03/21/2019 7:18:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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Oh dear! Fantastic!


25 posted on 03/21/2019 2:10:47 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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