BOARD GAMES

Board Games
The earliest known
board games are 5,000
5,000 YEARS
years old and were OLD
played by the

Rolling the Dice

Egyptians.
During an excavation in

Southeastern Iran,
3,000 YEARS archeologists
AGO
Go
discovered a 3,000-
year-old set of dice!
Go is from 200 B.C. in

Korea, Backgammon
from Iran around 600 200 B.C.
A.D. (complete with Card games
dice).
The first use of a card
deck was probably in
6TH Ancient China. They
CENTURY would have been played
Hazard during the Tang

Dynasty (6th century
In 14th-century
England, people were 14TH A.D. – 9th century A.D.).
playing a game called CENTURY

Hazard and it didn’t fall

Snakes and Ladders
out of favour until the One of the world’s
19th century. most popular children’s
16TH games probably began
CENTURY. in India in the 16th
Tiles and Dominoes century.
There are references
to tile games in China
that are over 2,900 18TH Table Games
years old. Dominoes CENTURY
emerged 1,000 years
Pool, billiards and
later during the Song snooker are all
Dynasty (also in China). relatively recent
19TH inventions, and
CENTURY roulette only arrived in
Electronic Games the 19th century.
The first electronic
game was invented in
Arcade games
United States before
the computer! A patent
1947
Space Invaders,
was filed in 1947 for a Pacman, etc. began life
“Cathode ray tube in 1978 and became
amusement device”. popular into the early
1978 1980s. During that
time, quite a few
consoles were
released.