Do you play games that originated before the Renaissance occurred?
Chess, draughts, go, xiangqi, shogi.
chess, checkers, go, shogi, mancala, and poker
also make em up talky time and drink the booze
>>44294882
>Pieces on squares instead of intersections
You done fucked up
>>44294882
Chess, go, tarot.
>>44294882
Go erry day man
>>44295160
That is how you play Shogi you retard. You are probably thinking of Go.
I can play Go against the average American. I might even win if they've never heard of the game.
I can play chess against the average second grader.
>>44294882
ITT: Hipster Plays Retro Games
>>44294882
>Chess, draughts
Occasionally.
>Go
Never played but I know the concept and the rules
>Xiangqi
Not even completely sure what this is.
>Shogi
Never played; don't know the rules
I think I played a Mancala game once.
>>44294882
I play chess and various card games
I've also tried Thud, which is a tafl variant created for Terry Pratchett's discworld. kinda fun, but I still can't decide whether it's a lot less complex than chess, or so complex it's out of my league.
>>44294882
I play Go, Backgammon and Sheepshead.
>>44300799
Mancala is pretty fun.
Anyone here play backgammon?
>>44294882
Played shogi extensively, even managed to beat a ranked(when he was playing against 3 others, mind you).
I came to the conclusion that I suck at it, big time, but it's hella fun game.
Haven't been playing it at all since I came back to my home country.
I also suck at chess.
Go I played against one university go club captain, got curbstomped.
Xiangqi I've never heard of, neither have I heard of draughts.
>>44301249
Never learned the rules, even if I have my mothers old board somewhere in the house.
>>44294882
All the time. Not just at medieval recreations either.
*Chess
*3,6,9 and 12 man morris
*Tarrot
*suit deck games (wagers aka poker, karnoffel etc)
*Glukhaus
*Mancalla
*flips/shut the box
*Snakes and stairs
etc.
Hell, last night at my Yule party, we got drunk and played Senet. pic related.
Dumping historic board game pics. One of my favorite subjects!
Get on my level,
>>44301577
Have some PDFs
>>44301602
>>44301577
And here comes Gropey who probably has a story about how he saved a mans love life by teaching him some obscure iranian wedding game, a story he he will note with "Oh, I haven't told this before? Well funny thing about this one game...."
>>44301613
>>44301630
Quit being an asshole.It was Uzbeki, not Iranian
>>44301652
>>44294882
I play mahjong, I want to play go and only one of my friends will play Shogi with me so I don't get to play often and I'm not very good sadly.
>>44301652
I kid, I kid. You're probably the most interesting person I've never met.
Do you people know which game you've played is the oldest?
>>44301687
Pickup sticks, followed by mancalla and then Sentet, from oldest on.
Both pickup sticks and mancalla are stone age, and we can trace Sentet to the late copper/early bronze age of Egypt.
>>44301714
>>44301737
I watched a documentary about go once and like all primitive games it seems to be mostly an excuse to start a knife fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcR9fJh0LCY
>>44301602
>>44301613
>>44301631
>>44301652
>>44301669
Based clown dropping knowledge like bombs on arab children. Thanks Gropey.
>>44301833
OH! Tabula, the Roman forerunner to backgammon, which is also historically accurate. My mother is queen of the drunken backgammon tournaments... A dubious honor.
>>44301907
God damn it, this is something I must see.
Xiangqi is cool.
Use to play as a kid. Now only old folks play it in coffee shops.
It's basically Chinese chess, but id say its abit more dynamic. Theres elephants that can't cross a river, cannons that fly across the field, and a palace with guards. Oh and your king can snipe the other king if they are in line of sight.
>>44301913
>dropping knowledge like bombs on arab children
I am stealing this.
Pic is a blessed Roman dice tower, to make sure every roll is random.
>>44301971
I've been wanting to get back into mahjong, but I can't find any good computer programs to teach it (the one I used to use, Game of Four Winds, a) did not offer a teaching mode and b) was for windows 95 anyway). Suggestions?
I also love me some go (which I'm terrible at) and want to try and learn shogi (even though I'm terrible at chess).
>>44301630
Get bent. Gropey is fucking awesome for a tripfag.
>>44302149
Shame he's got a trip. And that his name is fucking shit.
>>44294882
Go for sure. The president of the club was my suitemate when I was an undergraduate, we once played a ten-week long game in between our classes. I managed not to get my ass beat like a cheap Persian rug.
Never was that good at chess because I found it boring as a kid, and I never had the chance to learn shogi.
>>44295303
how do you play tarot exactly?
i've only known them for their use on divination and shit
>>44302073
If you want to get into practice the best way I can recommend is playing and memorising Yaku. Visit /jp/ for their mahjong thread it's usually up. We play in Tenhou, usually Lobby 7447. We've got a pretty varied skill base in there if I do say so.
>>44301249
Yeah, I play backgammon.
>>44298953
>chess, draughts, go, shogi and xiangqi
>HIPSTER
>USING THE WORD HIPSTER THIS BAD
>>>MTV
>>44301014
Hnefertefl! ma nigga.
>>44302387
that's not what a cross-board link looks like, scrub.
lurk more.
>>44302452
That is how crossboard links are done.
I'm fairly certain judging by your manner and the phrase "lurk more" that you've been on 4chan for maximum six months and spent the first five months on /b/.
>>44302515
If you'd done it right it'd look like >>>/mtv/ and nigga I been here ten years.
Stop embarrassing yourself.
>>44302542
He's a newfag, but you're an edgy tryhard.
>>44302587
Forgive me for remembering a time when people actually lurked more.
>>44302610
No. You're shitting up the thread considerably more than him.
I play chess, xianqi, and shogi.
>>44294882
Ia that a chu shogi board? I want one so bad!
(I was actually browsing in hope of finding a thread on this, does anyone play chess variants?)
>>44302639
Thread's dead anyway and now you've started an argument, you're no better.
If I had the time and/or patience, I'd like to try Taikyoku Shogi at least once in my life.
>>44302667
The thread is obviously not dead, and "you're no better" is not a valid argument, anon.
Was in a chess club around fifth/sixth grade, but forgot most of it except the rules and going for the center. Played a lot of backgammon with my brother. Also for some reason I really was interested in hnefatafl in high school.
>>44302212
Whats wrong with my name? Its the actual one I use on stage.
>>44302290
Tarot is a specific card game.
The Tarot deck, when you remove the major arcana is just a suit deck, with different images.
Wands = club
Spade = sword
Heart = Cup
disks/coins = diamonds
Kings, queens and knights/knaves/jacks are unchanged.
The myth I heard is that the church banned tarot cards shortly after the first printed cards were made. This wasn't for witch craft, but because EVERYONE was to busy gambling to support the church. Shortly there after, you start seeing the suit deck....
Just a story, as far as I know.
Fun fact: There are still dozens of ways to use an average suit deck for divination.
>>44302364
Poorly, but I do too.
>>44302667
Thread isn't dead. its the afternoon on a weekday.
>>44302694
holy FUCK.
>>44302387
>I only play pre-Renaissance board games
>>44303006
>What's wrong with my name?
I mean, I can get the dark humour appeal, but I just don't like the name on subjective grounds (it's crude, and I just don't like crude. It's not a political thing, or something I think everyone else should agree with me on, I just don't personally like it).
>>44303154
Look son, I have worked the circus. I am a Ringling Bro's graduate. I am one of many from a circus family.
I know what to be gropey means. Thats the name I use when I am performing with burlesque and adult vaudeville shows, not with family shows.
Also, WELCOME TO 4CHAN! You might want to go back to Tumblr. Heaven forfend you get triggered.
>>44303006
Holy fuck is right man. IIRC it's 402 pieces per side. Here's a video of two dudes playing it. I don't understand japanese, but I think it takes 'em three days to finish a game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c0Y26iTPSM
>>44303154
You are on the wrong website.
>>44303154
Hink honk.
>>44303264
He's entitled to his own opinion. You don't have to act like an arse and pull the Tumblr SJW boogeyman.
>>44303264
Mang, I explained that it wasn't a political thing for a reason. It's just a shit name. Like calling yourself Wanker or something.The definition was there so you knew what I was talking about, faggot. I'm pretty sure someone on 4chan knows what groping someone is.
>>44303289
Nah.
>>44302694
I remember watching some program about that, how it has something like 450 pieces per side.
Two rankers tried it, and it took a shit ton of time.
>>44303276
Well, damn.
>>44303313
>>44303317
You're samefagis showing.
>>44303317
>>44303313
>Help! Help! Im offended on 4chan by a tripfag!
>>44303337
>anyone who doesn't agree with me is a single samefag
Dank -----~~
>>44303337
>waaa, waaa, someone said my name was bad!
Maybe if you didn't namefag in threads that have nothing to do with your name you wouldn't get into this situation, faggot.
>>44303366
I don't like scatalogical humour, either. Does that make me a tumblrina SJW pussy idpol cuck and whatever else you don't like too?
>>44303337
>>44303400
>dank
Go die in a dildo fire.
>>44303317
Man, the name got a chuckle from me, when I first saw his money stapling story. It's not really bad when it comes to some strange showman names.
I was taught by some shibari by a Dominatrix that called herself Gomi, Trash.
Something that points at groping when you're on the same stage where someone is probably getting hanged by her tits isn't that bad, considering the context.
>>44303445
Good for you, anon. It's almost like you have different preferences to me.
>>44303519
Just showing that you're probably in the minority here and the first one to complain about the name that is completely irrelevant to the thread.
Tell me, why was this feeling of yours important to be acknowledged? Because now everybody knows your feelings yet it has not created anything positive for this thread. Why is your preference so important that you need to voice it?
>>44303424
My name is bad... But thats the point and you're on 4chan.
Please quit derailing the thread.
Pic is a six-sided top for teetotum and such. I have one, but with painted numbers, and not as nice.
>>44303622
Printed cloth gluckhaus board!
>>44303648
>>44303706
>>44303276
At a certain point, adding more pieces just pads out the gameplay instead of deepening strategy.
>>44302694
You only play this against death, because a whole match must last a lifetime
>>44303276
I like how in the end the loser is like "you know, I don't even feel bad about losing"
>>44303601
>why was this feeling of yours important to be acknowledged?
It was just something I added on to the much more important fact that he trips about for no fucking reason. And it was in response to someone else bringing up the fact that they thought Gropey was awesome, so I don't see how it was irrelevant, anon -- or at least, just as irrelevant as your post is right now. Or are you going to claim that sharing opinions is now Bad?
>>44303622
You can't take a shit and then shout at others for shitting along with you.
Please quit tripfagging in threads that do not concern you any more than other anons ;_;.
In the interest of the thread, here's another game of ancient origins. It's also called knucklebones, for a fairly obvious reason. I still don't know how the fuck people play it.
>>44303622
gropey tell me a joke
>>44303706
holy shit, chess is serious
>>44303780
Best way to play
>>44303784
Yeah, nah. You're just a cunt.
>>44303800
Three nuns die in a car accident: an initiate, a sister and a sister superior.
At the pearly gates, Saint Peter greets them;
"Now sisters, heaven has been getting a little crowded lately, so sadly, we need to be a bit more careful who we let in. All you gotta do is answer a question each, Im sure ya'll won't have a problem."
Peter goes to the first nun, the initiate. "Now, you've been a good person, and only just joined the order, so you get an easy question. What was the name of the first man?"
"Why, Adam, of course!" The gates open, the angels sing, and she goes on in.
Next, Peter goes to the second nun. "Sister, you've been with us for a good while. You get a harder question: What was the name of the first woman?"
"Thats a trick question! The first woman was Lilith, but the first woman made by God was Eve!" The gates open, the angels sing, and she goes on in.
Finally, its the sister superior's turn.
"Now hun, you've been with the church all your life. You healed the sick, fed the poor and always done good. You get the hardest question. What were the first words of Eve when she first saw Adam?"
The nun had no clue! She sits there and thinks and thinks and thinks. Millennia pass, but time in heaven is relative. The line behind her is miles long when she finally murmers scratching her chin "Damn, that's a hard one...."
The gates open, the angels sing, and she goes on in.
>>44303807
You have no idea.
>>44304146
thnx
>>44301714
mancala is stone age? i know about boards from old egypt (~1300 AC) but don't know if it's rules are similar enough to be called mancalla, but to a noob like me it seemed quite similar. Do you have some source reference?
>>44304146
It took me a second, but thats funny.
>>44304146
>Yeah, nah. You're just a cunt.
Yeah, nah. You're just a tripfag, and an attention whore -- but I suppose I should expect that from a clown. Other trips have the decency to be anon when their trip has nothing to do with the thread. But sure, go ahead, spite me -- show me who's boss! Continue to associate your identity with your posts, and to make threads about ancient board games instead about you.
>>44304219
...and yet every single post he's made has on topic info or pics.
No anon, YOU are the cancer.
>>44304245
I didn't make the thread about him, anon. I did respond to some people who did. He then proceeded to indulge in it.Besides, I'm in this thread for a reason. I want to learn about old games.
And now, by your own definition, you are the cancer.
>>44302694
Needs more hidden information.
>>44304187
I'll take a pic of the book when I get home. Here is the problem: We found several stones with tool-worked depressions that are near identical to a mancalla board, but being stone age, there is no written history to back it up.
its like the morris board in >>44303337. Its bronze age, but we can only make a strong assumption based on how similar it is to all the other morris boards in existence, but cannot be 100% certain.
>>44304282
Yes yes yes. You're derailing with your butthurt. You're boring everyone now. Please go spam somewhere else.
>>44304219
>>44304282
Are you a newfag? Gropey always brings interesting information to any thread dealing with anything historical.
Can you please stop being a little bitch and shut up?
>>44304311
Stratego- Taikyoku Shogi: 20 years to play. pic related
>>44304394
3d Stratego-Taikyoku Shogi
Get on my level
>>44304330
That's just sad, Gropey. Why are you so touchy about your name, anyway?
>>44304333
And he trips, for no reason at all.
>>44302290
There are a few games using the deck that are still popular today; I like French Tarot the most. It's a trick-taking game where one player bets his hand against the other players and they take turns trying to trump each other's cards.
>>44304448
Pfft. You don't have any shot glasses of ghost pepper to rub in your eyes/on your dick between moves. And where are the the peasants in costumes to fight to the death representing the pieces?
>>44304801
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3e8Qw9hhs
>WHIP OUT THOSE LITTLE DICKS, HERE WE GO!
Chess is fun. But it's not warhammery enough. I've been thinking about how to import all the features and problems of point buy into it, basing the point costs on the piece valuation ramblings of Ralph Betza. The thing I haven't figured out is how to ensure diverse teams. Probably the thing to do is require 4 of the chosen pieces to have value in the minor piece range, 2 of them about rookish, and only one beyond that. That would also allow tiers of pieces to be distinguished by the deployment rules. Pic related are the pieces from Betza's chess with different armies which I think I can give acceptably accurate point values with a simple point system.
>>44305185
>not warhammery enough
You guys have plenty of your own shitty threads without ruining this one.
>>44305238
Got references? I've never found one with freely customized pieces.
>>44305269
I was being facetious.
>>44304330
Yeah, like with basically.... everything from ages before writing, it's a general problem of working historical correct.
With a note on common sense but without pulling out some "it's bulletproof!"-statements I'm fine with it.
Some pic would be very appreciated! :)
I played this old-ass 4-player variant once.
>>44304330
I'm not convinced.
As far as Wikipedia claims, some of the oldest evidence of Mancala games comes from the 6th and 7th Century AD and there is little verifiable evidence that the game is older than about 1300 years.
>>44305698
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... It probably was a ritual item, maybe? I dunno
>>44306924
That looks fucking awesome. Name? What period?
>>44306929
See >>44307038
Wikipedia is only as good as the stupidest person editing.
>>44307121
Chaturaji, an indian dice game described by an eleventh century persian studying india. For our game we didn't use the random aspects and had a different starting position where the kings were safer.
>>44307121
>>44307038
Is this single purported "board" your only evidence that Mancala predates the first millenium AD?
>>44301577
>>44301613
Glukhaus! I haven't played that in ages. I need to get my cousins into that shit.
>>44307286
Where are dice involved?
>>44307301
Let me clarify this: I use "mancala" like most people as the generic term for pit-and-pot games.
And no, its not.
http://www.awale.info/juegos-mancala-en-el-mediterraneo-oriental/?lang=en
http://nabataea.net/games3.html
>>44307379
Tis the season to get an assload of chocolate coins and get gambling!
>>44307652
Two dice are rolled at the beginning of each player's turn. The player then makes up to two moves per turn, with pieces corresponding to the results on the two dice.
>>44307038
Thanks man, that's interesting stuff, I will look into this for sure!
>>44306929
You don't need to be. Nobody said it's for sure.
>>44307121
I'd say Kenya was somewhere in neolithic era, due to the lack of metalurgy. But I don't have profound knowledge of ancient africa's history and the middle east/east-north africa/europe were deep in the bronze age since hundreds of years at 1500BC, so someone with good knowledge on this has to step up to confirm/correct this.
>>44307969
Sorry, I thought the question targeted the Mancala topic. Ignore this part if you want ;)
bump for interest
>>44303784
>;_;
pls die
>>44304479
>for no reason at all.
He is a confirmed knowledgeable source on historical stuff. He knows his shit and provides entertaining stories, and that's two good reasons to trip.
>>44314112
Yup. Im in a dozen other threads, and not tripping at all. I only tripped here, because its something of a personal focus that I have done a lot of research and gathered a lot of material on.
>>44295160
Bye bye dickhead
>>44298953
traditional games*
FTFY
erotic roleplay is not a traditional game
>>44301014
Played a lot of this as a kid.
Rather unbalanced in the king's favor.
>>44317261
Is it? I've only been able to play it a couple times, none of my friends are history nerds who could be assed to learn how to play.
>>44302694
Do you have a video of anyone playing Taikyoku Shogi (大局将棋) or a list of moves made in a game?
Only chess and a tiny bit of indian chess.
Played occasional chess from pretty young but started getting into it about half a year ago. Scraping along 1850's rating now
>>44316053
That's what you think.
Couple of questions:
What were the Romans playing?
What other ancient games , as in Chess, feature various different types of pieces with different movement rules, on a grid?
>>44324537
*Knucklebones (Tali & Tropa)
*Dice (Tesserae)
*Roman Chess (Latrunculi)
*Petteia (Single Stone Latrunculi) Latrunculi.
*Roman Checkers (Calculi)
*The Game of Twelve Lines (Duodecim Scripta)
*The Game of Lucky Sixes (Felix Sex)
*Tic-Tac-Toe (Terni Lapilli)
*Roman Backgammon (Tabula)
Rules and history here.
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/boardgames.html
