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I am really interested in Boardgames and also fascinated by ancient and medieval history. I am looking into games from antiquity. I have found some really interesting games like Rithomachia a game for philosophers - played on a chess board but you take other pieces with arithmetic. It was big in the 12th century I think. I have also heard of The Libro de los Juegos (Alfonso X, 1283). It’s an illuminated manuscript contains many games. But I hasn’t managed to track it down

I am researching and resurrecting ancient board games. One of my targets is Mehen. It features a coiled serpent board, lions and marbles - but no surviving instructions. I am just starting my research so wanted to see if anyone already had some hints. Idea is to research ancient games, reconstruct their rules and create playable free web versions to get feedback on the actual playability- sort of a experimental archaeology angle

I wanted to check rules for this community before doing anything. I am looking at a bit of an experiment on lost games. Games where the board is known through archaeological knowledge but the rules are absent. First game I am looking at is Penne Grammai a game from Ancient Greece. I have spun up free web versions of penne Grammai with 3 different rule versions. I would like to invite people to come and experience the games, play them and then record their thoughts in a substack survey if they want to. Is that allowed in this community. I would also love to work with some archaeology people to push this as an experiment. To be transparent I am a single person part time studio. I make apps. The free web versions and experimental side is because I have a passion for games and always wanted to be an archaeologist but ended up a physicist. If this is not allowed in this community I am cool with that and will still like to interact here. Thanks

I wanted to check rules for this community before doing anything. I am looking at a bit of an experiment on lost games. Games where the board is known through archaeological knowledge but the rules are absent. First game I am looking at is Penne Grammai a game from Ancient Greece. I have spun up free web versions of penne Grammai with 3 different rule versions. I would like to invite people to come and experience the games, play them and then record their thoughts in a substack survey if they want to. Is that allowed in this community. I would also love to work with some archaeology people to push this as an experiment. To be transparent I am a single person part time studio. I make apps. The free web versions and experimental side is because I have a passion for games and always wanted to be an archaeologist but ended up a physicist. If this is not allowed in this community I am cool with that and will still like to interact here. Thanks

I wanted to check rules for this community before doing anything. I have spun up free web versions of penne Grammai with 3 different rule versions. It’s a game from archaeology where the board has been found but the rules are lost. It’s from Ancient Greece. I would like to invite people to come and experience the games, play them and then record their thoughts in a substack survey if they want to. Is that allowed in this community. I would also love to work with some archaeology people to push this as an experiment. To be transparent I am a single person part time studio. I make apps. The free web versions and experimental side is because I have a passion for games and always wanted to be an archaeologist but ended up a physicist. If this is not allowed in this community I am cool with that and will still like to interact here. Thanks

I wanted to check rules for this community before doing anything. I have spun up free web versions of penne Grammai with 3 different rule versions. I would like to invite people to come and experience the games, play them and then record their thoughts in a substack survey if they want to. Is that allowed in this community. I would also love to work with some archaeology people to push this as an experiment. To be transparent I am a single person part time studio. I make apps. The free web versions and experimental side is because I have a passion for games and always wanted to be an archaeologist but ended up a physicist. If this is not allowed in this community I am cool with that and will still like to interact here. Thanks

I wanted to check rules for this community before doing anything. I have spun up free web versions of penne Grammai with 3 different rule versions. I would like to invite people to come and experience the games, play them and then record their thoughts in a substack survey if they want to. Is that allowed in this community. I would also love to work with some people to push this as an experiment. To be transparent I am a single person part time studio. I make apps. The free web versions and experimental side is because I have a passion for games and always wanted to be an archaeologist but ended up a physicist. If this is not allowed in this community I am cool with that and will still like to interact here. Thanks

I am looking for more examples of board games in archaeology context. I want to collect ideas for games we know existed but the rules have been lost. Preferably not just Greco Roman games but further afield as well. I have been looking at Penne Grammai the classic Greek game. I have heard about some others for instance Mehen from early Egypt, Liubo from ancient china. Mehen sounds pretty cool it’s got a distinctive spiral board with a coiled serpent, lions and marbles. Does anyone know about this, where it was found etc

I was wondering if anyone in the community has been looking at boardgames in the archaeology realm. There are numerous boardgames where we know what the board looked like from archaeology but the rules have been lost. I am looking at a bit of a side project to try and bring those games into the light and get people playing them. A classic examples is Penne Grammai. It’s an Ancient Greek game, depicted on urns and ornate mirrors with Ajax and Achilles playing it with Athena looking on. Also appears in primary written sources. So we know the game existed but the rules dont survive. I’ve been looking into it and it’s a pretty cool detective story. My idea is to set it up to play on the web for free, then get people to play the different versions from the different scholars and rate them as a game. Sort of experimental archaeology

I was wondering if anyone in the community has been looking at boardgames in the archaeology realm. There are numerous boardgames where we know what the board looked like from archaeology but the rules have been lost. I am looking at a bit of a side project to try and bring those games into the light and get people playing them. A classic examples is Penne Grammai. It’s an Ancient Greek game, depicted on urns and ornate mirrors with Ajax and Achilles playing it with Athena looking on. Also appears in primary written sources. So we know the game existed but the rules dont survive. I’ve been looking into it and it’s a pretty cool detective story. My idea is to set it up to play on the web for free, then get people to play the different versions from the different scholars and rate them as a game. Sort of experimental archaeology

I was wondering if anyone in the community has been looking at boardgames in the archaeology realm. There are numerous boardgames where we know what the board looked like from archaeology but the rules have been lost. I am looking at a bit of a side project to try and bring those games into the light and get people playing them. A classic examples is Penne Grammai. It’s an Ancient Greek game, depicted on urns and ornate mirrors with Ajax and Achilles playing it with Athena looking on. Also appears in primary written sources. So we know the game existed but the rules dont survive. I’ve been looking into it and it’s a pretty cool detective story. My idea is to set it up to play on the web for free, then get people to play the different versions from the different scholars and rate them as a game. Sort of experimental archaeology

I was wondering if anyone in the community has been looking at boardgames in the archaeology realm. There are numerous boardgames where we know what the board looked like from archaeology but the rules have been lost. I am looking at a bit of a side project to try and bring those games into the light and get people playing them. A classic examples is Penne Grammai. It’s an Ancient Greek game, depicted on urns and ornate mirrors with Ajax and Achilles playing it with Athena looking on. Also appears in primary written sources. So we know the game existed but the rules dont survive. I’ve been looking into it and it’s a pretty cool detective story. My idea is to set it up to play on the web for free, then get people to play the different versions from the different scholars and rate them as a game. Sort of experimental archaeology

I was wondering if anyone in the community has been looking at boardgames in the archaeology realm. There are numerous boardgames where we know what the board looked like from archaeology but the rules have been lost. I am looking at a bit of a side project to try and bring those games into the light and get people playing them. A classic examples is Penne Grammai. It’s an Ancient Greek game, depicted on urns and ornate mirrors with Ajax and Achilles playing it with Athena looking on. Also appears in primary written sources. So we know the game existed but the rules dont survive. I’ve been looking into it and it’s a pretty cool detective story. My idea is to set it up to play on the web for free, then get people to play the different versions from the different scholars and rate them as a game. Sort of experimental archaeology