HISTORY OF GAMES

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  1. 2. Card game, ancestor to Rummy Royale
  2. 3. Chinese played it we all werar it
  3. 5. Card games first played in Italy 1430's
  4. 8. Earlier name was Tables
  5. 9. The Landlord's Game earliest ancestor of Monopoly patented 1904./
  6. 11. Oldest gaming equipment
  7. 12. Authosr of "Book of Games" written circa 1283.
  8. 16. Published in Japan 1968, based on 19th century Reversi.
  9. 18. Welsh literature mentions a tafl-type game
  10. 20. Ancestor to most modern childrens' race board games.
  11. 21. Board game in the Sahara
  12. 22. Invented by a New Zealand man in 1962, and sold to a game publisher in 1979.
  13. 25. Precurser to Cribbage
  14. 28. They pair up with ladders o provide a hissing game
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  1. 1. Backgammon variant in the Babylonian Talmud
  2. 2. Part pentagon, published in 1978
  3. 4. Games being played in Scandinavia
  4. 6. Gucci drinking game invented by SCA member
  5. 7. First mentioned in print, 1836
  6. 10. Gretis Saga of Iceland mentions it as the Fox Game
  7. 13. Ancient game in Egypt
  8. 14. A diamond for some a board games for others, appears in the court of Louis XI.
  9. 15. Invented 1931, becomes Scrabble 1947
  10. 17. printed in England based on Indian Pachisi
  11. 19. Game in China called "Go" in Japan
  12. 21. Variant Board Game, found in Egypptian tombs
  13. 23. Emperor Claudius played it
  14. 24. Dragons dwell there, published 1974
  15. 26. Ancient game with high stakes
  16. 27. A Persian romance tells of it coming from India circa