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Ancient Games Notes
Take notes on the students Ancient Games presentation if the teacher wishes.
This is supplemental.

Name of
Game
Tabula

Nine Men
Morris

Caculi

Interesting fact

Basic rules

Why Important

Its similar to
Egyptian game
senet.

Each player has 15

pieces. All pieces
enter from square 1
and travel
counterclockwise.
Three dice are
thrown, and the
three numbers
determine the
moves of between 1
and 3 pieces.

It was very
popular in egypt

The object of the

game is to leave the
opposing player with
less than three pieces
or no legal moves
Black plays first. First
person to line up five
stones in a row
orthogonally or
diagonally wins.
Two players sat across
from each other and
placed their 15 black
or white pieces
(presumably stacked)
on the first square on
their side of the
board.
dice is that the
numbers were
arranged such that
any two opposite sides
would add up to
seven.

It was important
to the roman
empire .

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Terni Lapilli is
considered to be
identical to
modern Tic-TacToe.

a Terni Lapilli board

was recently
uncovered in the
British Museum which
included four blue
pieces and five red

It was the
beginning of tictac-toe

Emerged from
the roman
empire.
Named Calculi,
which means
"stones"

Scripta

Duodecimo Scripta
means "Twelve
Lines" or Twelve
Lines of the
Philosophers and
was played on a
board.

Tesserae

Playing dice was

very popular game
among the
romans.

Duodecim

Knucklebones
Terni Lapilli

Because it was
very popular at
that time.
It helped create
todays games.

It was the
beginning of
dice

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pieces.

Patolli

Aztec Ball

Royal Game
of Ur
Senet

Mancala

Shatranj

Tafl

Liubo

Chaturanga

Go

Seega

One of the oldest

games of america

The object of the

game is for a player to
win all of the
opponent's treasure
in the tradition carried
from the Olmecs, the
loser is decapitated in
sacrifice.

Because it was
one of the oldest
games in
america
If you lost you
died

One of the
earliest board
games

Played with two sets

of seven markers &
three pyramidal dice

It was popular in
ancient egypt

The most common

playing pieces were 5
cones shaped pieces
pitted against 5 reel
shaped pieces
Mancala games share
a general gameplay
sequence of picking
up all seeds from a
hole
The game came to
Persia from India, in
the early centuries of
the Christian Era.

Because it was
one of the
earliest board
games.
It was popular in
ancient egypt

The term "sudden

death" could
become more
dangerous,
literally.

Family board
game played
around the world.
It is an old form of
chess.

Family of ancient
Germanic and
Celtic board
games played on
a checkered
Liubo is a ancient
Chinese boardgame whose rules
are forgotten.
Chaturanga is an
ancestor of chess.
Its a strategic
game for 2 players

Seega is a simple
game

The size of the board

and the number of
pieces varied, but all
games involved a
distinctive 2:1 ratio of
pieces
Liubo is a ancient
Chinese board-game
whose rules are
forgotten.
In Sanskrit, "Chaturanga-bala" literally
means "an army
comprising 4 parts
Go is played by two
players alternately
placing black and
white stones on the
vacant intersections.
In Egypt, 5x5 game
boards were common,
while 7 x 7 or 9 x 9

Its still played

today.

It was the
beginning of
chess
One of the first
family games

Because the
rules where
forgotten
Because it was
so popular
One of the first
strategic games

Not many
people knew
how to play it.

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board do exist.