Medieval based games and gambling

Many board and lawn based games can be played during Hearthlight events or get togethers. Popular ones include: Lawn Games:

Rat Puck

Balance war, Staves

Balance war, Rope

Yoked Tug of War

Slip Jump

Viking Limbo

Viking Where are you?

Leg Wrestling

Stave Wrestling

Spirit of the Rooster

Kubb

Board games:

Go

A ancient Chinese game that is still played in modern day. Played on a gridded board, players take turns placing their pieces on the intersections of the grids. The goal is to capture the other players pieces by surrounding theirs with yours and having more of you pieces on the board than your opponent.

Senet

Possibly the oldest boardgame Senet was invented in Ancient Egypt. Two players move their 5 pieces along a 10x3 board by tossing several two colored sticks to determine how much the move and if they toss the sticks again.

Patolli

One of the oldest games in the Americas. Players present the same number of items (usually 6) to gamble and both inspect the others to come to an agreement that the items are fair. The game board has 52 squares arranged in an "X" shape and dice are rolled to move their 6 game pieces. Players lose their turn if they have a roll that would overshoot the end or end on the same spot as the opponent. The object of the game is to reach the special ending squares with all of your pieces.

Fox and Geese

Liars Dice

Hnefatafl

Pente

Gluckhaus

Chess

Backgammon

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