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The word 'tables' is derived from the Latin tabula which primarily meant 'board' or 'plank', but also referred to this genre of game. From its plural form, tabulae, come the names in other languages for this family of games including the Anglo-Saxon toefel, German [wurf]zabel, Greek tavli, Italian tavoli, Scandinavian tafl, Spanish tablas and, of course, English and French tables.
Tables is a generic name given to an ancient class of board games of which there are many examples, but the best known in the Western world today is Backgammon Main article: Tables game Subcategories
Medieval illustration of tabula players from the 13th century Carmina Burana.. Tabula (Byzantine Greek: τάβλι), meaning a plank or board, [1] was a Greco-Roman board game for two players that has given its name to the tables family of games of which backgammon is a member.
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A game of bagatelle in progress. Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over.
English has borrowed the term from tafl (pronounced; Old Norse for 'table'), [4] [5] a generic term referring to board games.. Hnefatafl (roughly , [5] plausibly realised as [n̥ɛvatavl]), became the preferred term for the game in Scandinavia by the end of the Viking Age, to distinguish it from other board games, such as skáktafl (), kvatrutafl and halatafl (), as these became known. [2]
The first steps toward the legalization of remote gambling in France were made in 2005 when the European Commission started to investigate the French gambling market. In 2006, the Commission gave a notice and then requested in 2007 to make amends to existing law in compliance with European Union (EU) laws.
Doublets or queen's game is an historical English tables game for two people which was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although played on a board similar to that now used for backgammon, it is a simple game of hazard bearing little resemblance to backgammon.