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1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound
Author : quidsentio
Score : 95 points
Date : 2020-05-29 16:41 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.lifeinnorway.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.lifeinnorway.net)
| pvaldes wrote:
| > they found a set of roman dice for a game
|
| mono-polis?
| say_it_as_it_is wrote:
| It was Diplomacy. They still haven't finished the game.
| condesising wrote:
| Very nice observation
| JoeDaDude wrote:
| Don't know what drove them to say it is an early form of
| Hnefatafl, other than that both are games played on a board.
| Hnefatafl games (there are several [1]) are pure strategy open
| information games using different pieces with different moves.
| This discovery is of a game played with dice and apparently
| identical pieces. There are no pictures of the board. so I can
| only speculate about it, but my guess would be this game is
| probably a race game, perhaps a distant relative of backgammon.
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games
| scottlocklin wrote:
| It's actually not clear at all what the rules are for Tafl.
| Linnaeus instructions are suggestive, but certainly
| wrong/incomplete and people think stuff like Fetlar rules are
| probably close, but we really don't know.
| failrate wrote:
| Tafl games do include variants with dice for movement.
| dang wrote:
| We changed the URL from
| https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/05/1700-yea...
| to one that is almost identical but has more information. Is
| archaeologynewsnetwork a blogspam site? Or was this a case of
| both articles working off some press release?
| AlotOfReading wrote:
| It's not blogspam, it's an archaeology specific aggregator. A
| lot of people working in historical/anthropological fields read
| it and even give it the occasional cite.
| quidsentio wrote:
| I honestly don't know. I just posted the one I encountered. But
| after some googling, this seems to be the original source:
| https://www.uib.no/en/culturalhistory/135652/gaming-roman-ir...
| ngold wrote:
| Great link. I like the four sided stick dice.
| [deleted]
| spiritplumber wrote:
| It's a prototype, but don't worry, the Kickstarter backers should
| have theirs within the year.
| ChuckMcM wrote:
| Expecting the Hasbro/Parker Games DMCA take down notice at any
| time :-)
|
| More seriously, I think it is pretty interesting that board games
| would be the thing that meant this person was automatically
| considered aristocracy and upper class because they had board
| games buried with them. Today of course someone with a lot of
| board games or a love for them is often just considered a nerd.
| Perhaps nerds ruled Norway at the time. That's an interesting
| thought too.
| drewcoo wrote:
| I believe the ancient Egyptian aristos had their nerds buried
| with them.
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| Dice, not dices!
| je_bailey wrote:
| unless you are referring to multiple sets of distinct dice.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| Die, not dice! There was only 1.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| With the instruction booklet?
| SeanFerree wrote:
| Very cool!
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