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The Knossos board game (Greek: Ζατρίκιον; zatrikion) is a unique archaeological object belonging to the Minoan civilization that is preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion. It was found by Sir Arthur Evans in the archaeological excavations of Knossos , in an area to the northeast of the palace that has since been called the ...
Ludus latrunculorum, meaning "Game of Robbers," was another Roman board game. In this game each counter had a different value; the goal was to capture the opponent's pieces. [84] [85] This game was especially popular with soldiers. [84] Nine men's morris was played in ancient Rome and was probably well-known.
Pitchnut board. Pitchnut is a wooden tabletop game of French Canadian origins, similar to carrom, crokinole and pichenotte, with mechanics that lie somewhere between pocket billiards and air hockey. [1] Unlike with other wooden board games, there are no records of pitchnut being mass-produced; all existing boards are handmade.
Board configurations vary among different games but also within variations of a given game; for example Endodoi is played on boards from 2×6 to 2×10. The largest are Tchouba ( Mozambique ) with a board of 160 (4×40) holes requiring 320 seeds, and En Gehé ( Tanzania ), played on longer rows with up to 50 pits (a total of 2×50=100) and using ...
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 ...
Crokinole (/ ˈ k r oʊ k ɪ n oʊ l / ⓘ KROH-ki-nohl) is a disk-flicking dexterity board game, possibly of Canadian origin, similar to the games of pitchnut, carrom, and pichenotte, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to land their ...
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