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 piece restart. movement on the board is determined by rolling a special die. the game is known as the royal game of ur
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.
The video posted elsewhere in this thread shows a clay tablet containing an expanded ruleset from the Hellenistic period that allows the basic rules to be intuited with more confidence.
The tricky thing was we didn’t have the original rules, we had rules for how to modify it into a gambling game, written with the assumption that everyone already knew how to play, so we needed to derive the original rules from that.
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 piece restart. movement on the board is determined by rolling a special die. the game is known as the royal game of ur
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.
The video posted elsewhere in this thread shows a clay tablet containing an expanded ruleset from the Hellenistic period that allows the basic rules to be intuited with more confidence.
That’s cool, thanks for informing me
Ah even back then people were throwing out the instructions smh
Who needs 'em? Also if you land on free parking you get all the monies
no, you get to “park” wherever you want
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.
Yep, I have a copy. It’s pretty fun.
The tricky thing was we didn’t have the original rules, we had rules for how to modify it into a gambling game, written with the assumption that everyone already knew how to play, so we needed to derive the original rules from that.
Sounds just like Ludo
I wonder how archeologists would interpret Monopoly if they found only the game board
A game that had no winner and caused houses to split and fight to the death.
Where are the alien robots?