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we figured out the rules a while ago, it’s a racing game where each player has multiple pieces they need to move along the board, and can interact in the center where they can capture one another and make that piece restart. movement on the board is determined by rolling a special die. the game is known as the royal game of ur
We can’t know for certain the rules we now attribute to this game are what were originally played though. The rules were essentially made up in a way that made sense to what the board looks like and what was found with it. There is no documentation on this found anywhere in history.
Ah even back then people were throwing out the instructions smh
Who needs 'em? Also if you land on free parking you get all the monies
no, you get to “park” wherever you want
The video posted elsewhere in this thread shows a clay tablet containing an expanded ruleset from the Hellenistic period that allows the basic rules to be intuited with more confidence.
That’s cool, thanks for informing me
It’s actually a quite good game. I hope to get mine signed by Irving Finkel. Sadly, he was not in when I bought a replica at the British Museum.
The tricky thing was we didn’t have the original rules, we had rules for how to modify it into a gambling game, written with the assumption that everyone already knew how to play, so we needed to derive the original rules from that.
I wonder how archeologists would interpret Monopoly if they found only the game board
Where are the alien robots?
Honestly getting sucked into a jungle for 30 years doesn’t sound so bad these days.
Are you genuinely serious?
Alan was a child. He had no concept of what had happened or what was happening to him. It wasn’t just some random Amazonian-type jungle he was sucked into; it was an ancient unending overgrown labyrinth of tangle and undergrowth containing some of the most aggressive and deadliest versions of predators known to man.
Most of the unfortunate people who play that game are in there for five minutes whilst the others roll the dice and wait their turn. Those who get sucked in later in the game have at least some inkling of what to expect, and can still cling to the hope of their turn coming up soon.
Alan was in there for thirty years. Thirty years of learning how to survive in a harsh and hostile environment, with no hope of return, and no understanding of what he did wrong to deserve this fate. The only other human who could have at least served as a father figure of sorts is a mad hunter who wants him dead. Can you imagine the number of times Alan must have approached The Hunter just to strike up some kind of discourse about what is going on or to test the limits of his compassion, only to have to flee for his life each and every time? That can mess up a kid.
It’s a real testament to Alan’s forgiving disposition that he doesn’t blame any particular person for his situation, but the situation itself. Even after time rewound and he got to live out his life as normal human being, the mental scars are likely still there etched into his mind.
And don’t even get me started on Sarah. She saw what happened with her own two eyes, and every single adult in her life told her that it wasn’t real. Because how could it be? And yet her childhood friend went missing right in front of her. How can you even deal with the sheer guilt of an event that people say you hallucinated?
Goddamn that film breaks my heart.
When I was that age I’d rather have died in the jungle. Not so much these days. It’s just not worth dealing with the mosquitoes.
Jesus Christ. It was a joke. Calm down.
( never! )
He got trapped in the jungle for 30 years and the biggest thing he feared was another human hunting him. Personally, I’d rather deal with just 1 psycho human than a whole world full of 'em. 🤷🏻♂️
You underestimate the wild
This looks a lot like the one Tom Scott played on his channel.
Yep. I actually bought one of the replicas from the museum after I watched the video.
Yeah it is. Pretty cool video too.
The royal game of Ur was “unearthed” about 100 years ago. That website is pretty slow on the uptake.
You can buy copies of it on Amazon
link is to a tom scott video about this game.
Clearly fake. Not even my games with under a year use are in such good condition.
Damn they made that game from rimworld 4000 years ago, didn’t know they also played it back then.
Jumanji!!!
A nearby Ouiji board spells out: Y O U R T U R N
that’s senet, or at least based on it.
been around for thousands of years.
we know the rules now? it must be time to duel!
That picture is old, i have seen it years ago on some wikipedia article about boardgames. Basically historic “Man, Don’t Get Angry”
