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  2. Crokinole - Wikipedia

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    It is said Wettlaufer crafted the board as a fifth birthday present for his son Adam, which is now part of the collection at the Joseph Schneider Haus, a national historic site in Kitchener, Ontario, with a focus on Germanic folk art. [10] Several other home-made boards dating from southwestern Ontario in the 1870s have been discovered since ...

  3. Thai traditional games - Wikipedia

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    Makyek (Thai: หมากแยก) is an abstract strategy board game played on an 8x8 square board with 16 pieces per player, where players move their pieces like the rook in chess and attempt to capture their opponent's pieces through custodian and intervention capture. Unlike chess, Makyek only has one type of piece, the rook, and players ...

  4. Game board - Wikipedia

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    A game board (or gameboard; sometimes, playing board [1] or game map [2]: 25 ) is the surface on which one plays a board game. The oldest known game boards may date to Neolithic times, however, some scholars argue these may not have been game boards at all.

  5. Liubo - Wikipedia

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    Liubo (Chinese: 六博; Old Chinese *kruk pˤak “six sticks”) was an ancient Chinese board game for two players. The rules have largely been lost, but it is believed that each player had six game pieces that were moved around the points of a square game board that had a distinctive, symmetrical pattern.

  6. Tafl games - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. History of games - Wikipedia

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    Both Plato and Homer mention board games called 'petteia' (games played with 'pessoi', i.e. 'pieces' or 'men'). According to Plato, they are all Egyptian in origin. The name 'petteia' seems to be a generic term for board game and refers to various games. One such game was called 'poleis' (city states) and was a game of battle on a checkered ...

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  9. Traditional games of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The two games use the same board which consist of a standard alquerque board but with four triangular boards attach to its four sides. The only difference between the two games is in the number of pieces. In peralikatuma, each player has 23 pieces. In Kotu Ellima, each player has 24 pieces. The game is also spelled as perali kotuma.

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