This looks a lot like the one Tom Scott played on his channel.
What year is it
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baggins@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The Royal Game of Ur
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Yep. I actually bought one of the replicas from the museum after I watched the video.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That wouldn’t surprise me a bit.
You got a link?
AliasVortex@lemmy.world 3 months ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah it is. Pretty cool video too.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Honestly getting sucked into a jungle for 30 years doesn’t sound so bad these days.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Are you genuinely serious?
Alan was a child. He had no concept of what had happened or what was happening to him. It wasn’t just some random Amazonian-type jungle he was sucked into; it was an ancient overgrown labyrinth of tangle and undergrowth containing some of the most aggressive and deadliest versions of predators known to man.
Most of the unfortunate people who play that game are in there for five minutes whilst the others roll the dice and wait their turn. Those who get sucked in later during the game know at least what to expect, and can cling to the hope of their turn coming up soon. The fear of the place alone is enough to leave a mark to not want to go back.
Alan was in there for thirty years. Thirty years of learning how to survive in a harsh and hostile environment, with no hope of return, and no understanding of what he did wrong to deserve this fate. The only other human who could have at least served as a father figure of sorts is a mad hunter who wants him dead. Can you imagine the number of times Alan must have approached The Hunter just to strike up some kind of discourse about what is going on or to test the limits of his compassion, only to have to flee for his life each and every time? That can mess up a kid.
It’s a real testament to Alan’s forgiving disposition that he doesn’t blame any particular person for his situation, but the situation itself. Even after time rewound and he got to live out his life as normal human being, the mental scars are likely still there etched into his mind.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Jesus Christ. It was a joke. Calm down.
InputZero@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah that movie would have been very different without Robbin Williams as Adult Alan. Imagine if the movie we’re a drama and not a comedy. It’d be a harder gut punch than Requiem for a Dream.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 months ago
When I was that age I’d rather have died in the jungle. Not so much these days. It’s just not worth dealing with the mosquitoes.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
He got trapped in the jungle for 30 years and the biggest thing he feared was another human hunting him. Personally, I’d rather deal with just 1 psycho human than a whole world full of 'em. 🤷🏻♂️
MITM0@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You underestimate the wild
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Except for the constant parasites.
Metostopholes@midwest.social 3 months ago
The royal game of Ur was “unearthed” about 100 years ago. That website is pretty slow on the uptake.
Dearth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can buy copies of it on Amazon
Chouxfleur@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve got one in my living room now! The best thing about it is the demon who plays along with you.
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 months ago
RREETTUURRNN TTHHEE SSLLAABB
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
What’s your offer!?
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
What an interesting video, and what a peculiar curator. I think he’s great.
Are there any other videos where he gets into the more advanced rules written on the cuneiform tablet?
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I seem to remember seeing some other videos with him. His name is Irving Finkel.
tpyo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That was a fantastic video, thank you!! And yes the curator was amazing. The shade one can throw when using posh language…!
Beyond the curator, the music selection and timing was brilliant; I’ll check out some more videos. Thanks again!
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah he’s amazing isn’t he!
arken@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Knew before clicking it had to be Irving Finkel…my favourite influencer
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
He is such a dude!
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Damn they made that game from rimworld 4000 years ago, didn’t know they also played it back then.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Jumanji!!!
lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 months ago
Clearly fake. Not even my games with under a year use are in such good condition.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Commonly artistic items of game sets would be made for largely show purposes and rarely or never used. So it wouldn’t be surprising if it was made and then sealed in a box for a funeral wealthy collection or storage. We still do that with fancy metal dice that most people will never roll.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 months ago
Makes sense. I’ve heard that rich people have no friends.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A nearby Ouiji board spells out: Y O U R T U R N
NateNate60@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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Ouija board explodes and the lights start flickering. The front door slams shut and you can hear it locking.
gaiety@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
we know the rules now? it must be time to duel!
Emptiness@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh the sights we have to show you
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
RIP Robin Williams
Matombo@feddit.org 3 months ago
That picture is old, i have seen it years ago on some wikipedia article about boardgames. Basically historic “Man, Don’t Get Angry”
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh its played with the fingers…
Not your own fingers!
erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
wjrii@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
hydration9806@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Ah even back then people were throwing out the instructions smh
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
lengau@midwest.social 3 months ago
Yep, I have a copy. It’s pretty fun.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Sounds just like Ludo
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 months ago
I wonder how astrologists would interpret Monopoly is they found only the game board
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A game that had no winner and caused houses to split and fight to the death.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Where are the alien robots?