What kind of BOARD/CARD GAMES do you all play with your s/o, kids or friends?!?!
If you are not much of a player, but like a theme, ask me and I'll make a recommendation.
Board Games have been around for thousands of years, let's talk about them or a favorite moment when someone 'caught feeling' during a game. Those are always good too.
The Earliest Board Games
The oldest complete board game found thus far is "The Royal Game of Ur" -- which was discovered in 1926-1927 by Sir Leonard Woolley in royal tombs in what is now Iraq -- dating back to more than 2500 B.C.E. The ruins are of the city-state of Ur which once housed Abraham, so we can imagine that this game may have been played by people whose tales are told in the Bible. Among the wonders found within the tombs were four boards of the same basic design representing one game that was played by many classes of people in that society -- ranging from simple to richly worked pieces. It's not known whether UR was the first board game ever played but it's ancient enough that everything before it is pretty much guess-work.
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The mancala family of games -- in which stones are moved about holes arranged in two (or more) parallel rows on a board -- probably originated with seeds or beans played in holes scooped in the dirt (an extremely easy-to-make game for farmers on a lunch break) -- which then evolved into a board game -- about the time folks got tired of scratching holes in the dirt. There are so many variations of mancala that it has to have been around for thousands of years and, likely, goes back further. Rows of holes have been found carved on slabs in ancient structures in Egypt, even in the pyramid of Cheops, that look remarkably like mancala game boards. Saharan remains that date back 3000 years look like mancala boards, too. Richard Leakey found some boards with two rows of thirteen holes in Kenya, that he dates to Neolithic times. Some of these may be ancient calculators but undoubtedly some are early forms of the game.
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If you are not much of a player, but like a theme, ask me and I'll make a recommendation.
Board Games have been around for thousands of years, let's talk about them or a favorite moment when someone 'caught feeling' during a game. Those are always good too.
The Earliest Board Games
The oldest complete board game found thus far is "The Royal Game of Ur" -- which was discovered in 1926-1927 by Sir Leonard Woolley in royal tombs in what is now Iraq -- dating back to more than 2500 B.C.E. The ruins are of the city-state of Ur which once housed Abraham, so we can imagine that this game may have been played by people whose tales are told in the Bible. Among the wonders found within the tombs were four boards of the same basic design representing one game that was played by many classes of people in that society -- ranging from simple to richly worked pieces. It's not known whether UR was the first board game ever played but it's ancient enough that everything before it is pretty much guess-work.
The mancala family of games -- in which stones are moved about holes arranged in two (or more) parallel rows on a board -- probably originated with seeds or beans played in holes scooped in the dirt (an extremely easy-to-make game for farmers on a lunch break) -- which then evolved into a board game -- about the time folks got tired of scratching holes in the dirt. There are so many variations of mancala that it has to have been around for thousands of years and, likely, goes back further. Rows of holes have been found carved on slabs in ancient structures in Egypt, even in the pyramid of Cheops, that look remarkably like mancala game boards. Saharan remains that date back 3000 years look like mancala boards, too. Richard Leakey found some boards with two rows of thirteen holes in Kenya, that he dates to Neolithic times. Some of these may be ancient calculators but undoubtedly some are early forms of the game.
