ThomasPowers Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Building a ziggurat storage array? Ur; what were we talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Haven't played the game, looked at it, wasn't sure which version to play, and can't usually get my family to play chess even, although go has had mixed results. When my wife does badly, she tends to decide that I'm cheating, then get mad and throw the board. Life with a redhead. It's why we stick to board games in our house instead of curling. Oh, Thomas and Frosty, how you do babble-on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 4 hours ago, Nobody Special said: Oh, Thomas and Frosty, how you do babble-on... We don't Tyre easily, even at our age. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 4 hours ago, Nobody Special said: can't usually get my family to play chess even, although go has had mixed results. Have you tried mancala? It's the game with the little stones or glass beads and two lines of holes you move around a la backgammon. I used to play it a lot. You can play anywhere just dig the little holes in the dirt and use acorns, bottle caps, whatever. Iirc it's been found at Roman archeological sites. I'm not sure where it originated, Africa,or the middle East maybe. Fun game and simple too. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Probably derived from the "royal game of Ur," backgammon it is so similar nobody questions the connection. Still, both games are so simple and basic they easily could've been developed anywhere. We have a Mancala board in the RV but I think Deb and I ended up playing a silly card game called "exploding kittens." Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted September 26, 2019 Author Share Posted September 26, 2019 9 hours ago, pnut said: Iirc it's been found at Roman archeological sites To be clear: Roman-era sites in the Middle East, not in Rome itself. Those finds date to about the second or third century AD. There is some possible evidence of an ancestral version of the game having been played in what is now Jordan as early as 6,000 BC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Roman archeological sites are spread over a wide area. I should have narrowed it down a little. I was actually thinking of the British isles but it was a long time ago when I read the article. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 There are "game of Ur" boards scratched into tavern/pub counters in Minoan settlements and many in painted in Pompeii and Herculaneum, Egypt is littered with Ur boards. The fellow who brought the game of Ur to life is the fellow who deciphered cuneiform so he named it. The identifier for the game are the extra roll spaces on the board and the 4 sided clay dice. Sheep knuckle bones were more commonly used as you don't need to paint pips on them to ID a side or number. You can give the game a try on this site. https://www.yourturnmyturn.com/ur/play.php I haven't heard about Ur boards being found in Gobekli Tepe but excavation and research is seriously hampered by it's country of location. There are beer vats though! I don't know if you can buy those yeast cultures but you can from many other ancient civilizations. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 You don't Tyre easily? You can talk, but I bet a few laps make you see purple... Sorry, experimental pun, a bit L'evant garde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 L'evant garde? You plan to Dali with the L'anguage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Dali? That would be surreal, wouldn't it? I just go wherever the puns Rome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Even to the Puntic shores and the Punnic wars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Sure, why not? Sounds carthargetic...., very libya-erating. Almost Tunis to be true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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