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  2. Cross and circle game - Wikipedia

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    Mayan cross and circle boards have been found on stones from the 7th century AD. [5] Although frequently encountered among the native tribes of North America (particularly as a "quartered circle" design) these boards were not made of durable materials, so generally the writings and collections of European-Americans constitute their earliest ...

  3. List of cross and circle games - Wikipedia

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    However, the term "cross and circle" is typically widened to include boards that replace the circle with a square, and cruciform boards that collapse the circle onto the cross; all three types are topologically equivalent. The Indian game Pachisi and its many descendants are perhaps the most well-known of all cross and circle games. [1]

  4. Category:Cross and circle games - Wikipedia

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    Several board games from the Far East, Europe and the Americas are played on boards featuring a circle and two perpendicular diameters, along which some markers are moved. The most familiar games in this group are Ludo and Parcheesi, where the circle has been collapsed onto the cross.

  5. Sun cross - Wikipedia

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    The cross-in-a-circle was interpreted as a solar symbol derived from the interpretation of the disc of the Sun as the wheel of the chariot of the Sun god. [2] Wieseler (1881) postulated an (unattested) Gothic rune hvel ("wheel") representing the solar deity by the "wheel" symbol of a cross-in-a-circle, reflected by the Gothic letter hwair (𐍈 ...

  6. Novgorod cross - Wikipedia

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    Novgorod Cross. The Novgorod cross is a type of cross which combines two geometric shapes - cross and circle. It is sometimes considered a variation of the Cross pattée. Often the ends of the cross are completely inscribed in a circle. [1] It is visually similar to the Celtic cross but originated in Eastern Europe rather than the British Isles

  7. Cross - Wikipedia

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    The word cross is recorded in 11th-century Old English as cros, exclusively for the instrument of Christ's crucifixion, replacing the native Old English word rood.The word's history is complicated; it appears to have entered English from Old Irish, possibly via Old Norse, ultimately from the Latin crux (or its accusative crucem and its genitive crucis), "stake, cross".

  8. Category talk:Cross and circle games - Wikipedia

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  9. Talk:Cross and circle game - Wikipedia

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