Gaming

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Scraped from the Facebook SCA Gaming Medieval and Modern Group

Contents 1 Modernly Played Period Games 2 Period Games 3 Books 4 External Links

Modernly Played Period Games

• Backgammon
• Chess
  • (An article about the naming of chess pieces.)
• Mancala
• Parcheesi (?)
• Snakes and Ladders (15th century India?)

Period Games

• Poch - a 15th century forerunner of Poker.
• Fox and Geese
• Game of the Goose
• Gluckshaus
• Tafl, including Hnefatafl
• Karnöffel
• Morris (9-mans, etc.), Mills
• Alquerque

Books

• Les Jeux au Moyen-Age, by Fabian Müllers et Sylvestre Jonquay
• Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, by R.C. Bell

External Links

• Querki Period Games Wiki
  • Link to stale predecessor site
• Card games in Germany
• 39 Ancient board games from around the world