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erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

we figured out the rules a while ago, it’s a racing game where each player has multiple pieces they need to move along the board, and can interact in the center where they can capture one another and make that price restart, movement on the board is determined by rolling a special die. the game is known as the royal game of ur

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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
We can’t know for certain the rules we now attribute to this game are what were originally played though. The rules were essentially made up in a way that made sense to what the board looks like and what was found with it. There is no documentation on this found anywhere in history.

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- wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The video posted elsewhere in this thread shows a clay tablet containing an expanded ruleset from the Hellenic period that allows the basic rules to be intuited with more confidence.
  
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  - MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s cool, thanks for informing me
    
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- hydration9806@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ah even back then people were throwing out the instructions smh
  
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  - dditty@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Who needs 'em? Also if you land on free parking you get all the monies
    
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    Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    no, you get to “park” wherever you want
    
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Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s actually a quite good game. I hope to get mine signed by Irving Finkel. Sadly, he was not in when I bought a replica at the British Museum.

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lengau@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yep, I have a copy. It’s pretty fun.

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Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The tricky thing was we didn’t have the original rules, we had rules for things like betting systems on top of the game written with the assumption that everyone already knew how to play, so we needed to derive the rules from that.

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Bumblefumble@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sounds just like Ludo

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Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I wonder how astrologists would interpret Monopoly is they found only the game board

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- SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  A game that had no winner and caused houses to split and fight to the death.
  
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Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Where are the alien robots?

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