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Activity 1.11

Activity 1.11
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

Duodecim
Scripta

Interesting fact

Basic rules

Why Important

No player may
exit the board
until all pieces
have entered the
last quarter

If a player had 2 or
more men on a point,
this position was
closed to the enemy,
and these men could
not be captured.

Invented by a
Greek soldier

Players can force

the game into a
draw.

The object of the

game is to leave the
opposing player with
less than three pieces
or no legal moves

Well known by
the Romans.

First person to line

up five stones in a
row orthogonally
or diagonally wins.

First person to line up

five stones in a row
orthogonally or
diagonally wins.

Played by the
Romans. Very
obscure.

Related to the
Egyptian game;
Senet

Unknown

Descendant of
Backgammon

Never found

Never found

Never found

Use to be played
with the
knucklebones of
sheep

Throw a ball, grab as

many jacks as you can
before the ball falls

Played in the
Roman empire

Essentially tic-tac-toe

Played
throughout
ancient history,
even in the
Trojan War.
Spawned tictac-toe

One of the oldest

games around

Move the six game

pieces through the
specified squares.
Mix of soccer and
basketball
Unknown

Tesserae
Knucklebones

Terni Lapilli
Patolli
Aztec Ball
Royal Game
of Ur

The losing team

was executed
Found in king Tuts
tomb
One of the oldest
known board

Unknown. Historians
propose their own

One of the
oldest games in
America
Origins of
basketball
One of the
oldest games in
history
One of the
oldest known

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Senet
Mancala

Shatranj
Tafl
Liubo
Chaturanga

Go

Seega

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games.
Originates in the
Middle East.

board games.
Still played
around the
world.

Brought by the
Persians

rules for the game.

Capture pits within the
board using seeds,
capturing the pits for
your own.
Exactly the same as
chess

Played by the
Vikings.

Use pieces to get the

king to the corners.

Played in Nordic
countries.

It is unknown
where the game
was made.
In chess, the
bishop was
replaced by an
elephant when it
was migrated to
India.
Originated in
China

Exact rules are

unknown.

Possibly related
to the Chinese
version of chess.
It was the
adopted version
of chess to
India.

Similar to
Checkers

Capture other pieces

by sandwiching yours
around them

Exactly the same as

chess pieces.

Use small stones to

capture enemy pieces
and other territories

Old version of
chess

Still played to
this day in
competitive
tournaments
An old ancient
game from
Egypt