The Royal Game Of Ur Ep. 3 [Tabletop Simulator] - Ancient Board Game Fun
2Today we take you back to ancient Mesopotamia for one of the oldest board games known to man, The Royal Game of Ur also known as The Game of 20 Squares. How will we do in a game that managed to entertain mankind from the Pharaohs up until the birth of baby Jesus? A game of chance, strategy and pure unadulterated smugness?
About the game from Wikipedia:
The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the Game of Twenty Squares, refers to an ancient game represented by two gameboards found in the Royal Tombs of Ur in Iraq by Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. The two boards date from the First Dynasty of Ur, before 2600 BC, thus making the Royal Game of Ur one of the oldest examples of board gaming equipment found, although Senet boards found in Egyptian graves predate it as much as 900 years. The Ur-style Twenty Squares gameboard was also known in Egypt as Asseb, and has been found in Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb, among other places. Discovery of a tablet partially describing the gameplay has allowed the game to be played again after over 2000 years, although reconstructions of the detailed rules have differed widely.
One of the two boards from Ur is exhibited in the collections of the British Museum in London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur
Tons of credit for this video go to the Irving Finkel of British Museum who brought this game to our attention in the first place. A great video with nearly as much smugness here: https://youtu.be/WZskjLq040I
The game itself can be found on the Steam Workshop in all its glory here (no, not made by our Steve, but a Steve who knows what he is doing): http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=926783582
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