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	Royal Game of Ur - Online Guide
		The ancient Sumerian name of the game is not known although it is often referred to as the Royal Game of Ur.
		The rules of the game as it was played around 2500BC are not know at all but the same boards were still in use a century or two before the birth of Christ and archeologists have discovered the rules for the game played at that time on some cuneiform tablet dated at 177/176BC.
		The pattern for the game is similar to that of "Ur" - at one end a block of 4 x 3 squares lies and then extending from the middle of one side of 3, lies a row of 8 more squares.
	www.tradgames.org.uk /games/Royal-Game-Ur.htm (0 words)

	The Royal Game of Ur
		The Royal Game of Ur The Royal Game of Ur Article by Catherine Soubeyrand.
		Each of the game boards is composed of a set of twelve squares and a set of six cases linked by a bridge of two cases.
		Among the twenty squares on the game board, five are generally decorated with a rosette and it seems that those squares are important in the course of the game.
	www.gamecabinet.com /history/Ur.html (0 words)

	The Royal Game of UR Ancient Mesoptamian Board Game Played in Biblical Times: presented by Astral Castle
		During excavation of the "Royal Cemetery" in the city-state of UR in Mesopotamia (about 105 miles west-northwest of what is now Basra in modern Iraq), four boards which varied from simple to fine workmanship were found in tombs which date primarily to the Early Dynastic IIIA period (around 2600-2500 B.C.E.).
		Historical Context for the Royal Game of Ur The city of Ur was the largest city in a fertile area, known as Mesopotamia, that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, more than 6000 years ago.
		Ur was known in the bible as "Ur of the Chaldees" because, around 900 B.C. it was settled by the Chaldeans.
	www.ccgs.com /games/ur.htm (0 words)

	Buy The Royal Game of Ur
		Buy The Royal Game of Ur The Royal Game of Ur The oldest game board ever discovered was found inside the Royal tombs at the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, Mesopotamia.
		The game pattern on this version of the game is based upon the board from the Royal city of Ur which on display at the British Museum.
		The Origin of the Game of Ur Boards found in Ancient Sumeria, in the royal tombs at Ur (~2500BC), Mesopotamia made during this period seem to be some sort of race game.
	www.mastersgames.com /cat/board/ur.htm (0 words)

	Robert S. Brumbaugh
		Since the Akkadian verse about a game of this same family refers to "jumping across" the ditch, the break in the bridge in the Knossos game falls within the general idea of simulation.
		For the suggested Knossos game, on the other hand, it seems we should allow any number of pieces to be on the safe squares simultaneously, waiting, passing, but advancing only on the "lucky" throws.
		The rhyme ends, unhappily, with the news that "the rules of the game will not be given here"; but from what is given, it is clear that the board had two sections, joined by "a bridge" across a "ditch" or "canal." This could refer to a later copy of the Ur board itself.
	gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca /Archives/Brumbaugh (1428 words)

	Robert S. Brumbaugh
		Since the Akkadian verse about a game of this same family refers to "jumping across" the ditch, the break in the bridge in the Knossos game falls within the general idea of simulation.
		For the suggested Knossos game, on the other hand, it seems we should allow any number of pieces to be on the safe squares simultaneously, waiting, passing, but advancing only on the "lucky" throws.
		The rhyme ends, unhappily, with the news that "the rules of the game will not be given here"; but from what is given, it is clear that the board had two sections, joined by "a bridge" across a "ditch" or "canal." This could refer to a later copy of the Ur board itself.
	www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca /Archives/Brumbaugh/index.html (1428 words)

	The Royal Game of Ur
		The Royal Game of Ur Note: The images and concepts on this homepage and subsequent pages are copyrighted: copyright 1996 P.S. Neeley, all rights reserved.
		'The Royal Game of Ur' is of course not the game's real name -- Its actual name is lost in antiquity, but because of the examples of it found in the royal cemetery of Ur, the game soon came to be called 'The Royal Game of Ur' among archaeologists.
		The game is played with fourteen markers -- seven to a side -- with two sets, one for each player, of three curious pyramidal dice.
	www.xmission.com /~psneeley/Shareware/ur.htm (438 words)

	Ancient Board Games and the Nabataeans
		The Royal Game of Ur The most famous of the 'Royal Game of Ur' boards was found by Sir Leonard Woolley in 1927 in the tomb of a nameless king of Ur, where it had been either abandoned or overlooked by robbers looking for more lucrative spoil.
		The game was played on a board of, naturally, 20 squares; the object being to get one's pieces on the board, then move in a diagonal pattern around and down the central row of squares, and finally off the far end.
		This game is superior in complexity to English draughts (or checkers) by virtue of the fact that it is played on a board ten squares by ten squares.
	nabataea.net /games3.html (3583 words)

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		Complete 3 levels of difficulty to win the game....
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	Gamezall.com - Board Games
		Board games first became widely popular among the general population early in the 20th century when the rise of the middle class with disposable income and leisure time made them a receptive audience to such games.
		Computer games are closely related to board games, and many acclaimed computer games such as Civilization are based upon board games.Many board games are now available as computer games, including the option to have the computer act as an opponent.
		Although many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.
	www.gamezall.com /board-game/cat.php (1388 words)

	SENET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Royal Game of Ur (aka the "Game of Twenty Squares")is played with seven pieces per side on a board with three rows, of which only the center row is continuous.
		The earliest example was excavated in a cemetery at Ur and was ornately decorated with fine inlays of shell, bone, lapis lazuli, and red limestone.
		Some Egyptian Senet boards have this game carved on the opposite side, indicating that both games were known to the players.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/roma/senet.htm (492 words)

	The Game of Ur
		Gaming boards found in the royal tombs in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur in Mesopotamia, (present day Iraq) are probably the oldest board games in the world.
		Ur was a thriving city in the third millenium BC and is mentioned in the Bible as the birthplace of Abraham.
		Excavations were conducted from 1922 to 1934 by an archelogical team led by Sir Leonard Wooley and sponsored by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania.
	www-cs.canisius.edu /~salley/Articles/ur.html (442 words)

	game of Thirty squares / senet
		Once again, this game shows clear sign of a thight relationship with the holy world since the beginning of its history with a couple of old boards found in prestigious archaic grave context.
		The game was also adopted in Palestine, in the Levant and as far as Cyprus or Crete but with apparently less religious significance.
		Despite their occasional association as the two sides of a same game box and their common features such as the use of random generators to move the five or seven pieces across the board, the game of senet seem to have been quite different from the game of Twenty squares.
	www.chocolatey.com /pascal/index.php?id=49 (459 words)

	The Royal Game of Ur
		This is known as the game of twenty squares and was played in many parts of the ancient world.
		The difference between the 20 square boards, for which the tablet was written, and the Ur board is the unfolding of the last six squares.
		The object of the game is to place 4 pieces on one of the three sets of 5 identical designs and one piece on one of the other 3 sets.
	www.luckydog.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /games/ur (1225 words)

	Old Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Games have been around ever since there have been people to play them.
		This game, called the Royal Game of Ur, may have been an early form of backgammon played with dice.
		The most popular were Mancala (a game that involves capturing the opponent's pebbles), Hounds and Jackals (the winner was the first player to get all of his or her hound or jackal-headed pegs to the other side of the game board), and Senet (a kind of race game, like backgammon).
	www.digonsite.com /drdig/other/51.html (128 words)

	The Royal Game of Ur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This game board is one of several with a similar layout found by Leonard Woolley in the Royal Cemetery at Ur.
		However, some sets of gaming pieces of inlaid shale and shell were excavated at Ur with their boards.
		Examples of this 'Game of Twenty Squares' date from about 3000 BC to the first millennium AD and are found widely from the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt to India.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ1739 (326 words)

	Game Kits
		Our Game Kit here presents some advice on strategies to be used by both sides, as well as a suggestion to correct (in our humble opinion) a few of the little gliches in the game system.
		This Game Kits provides unofficial errata to the SPI series "Great Battles of the American Civil War" which includes "Cedar Mountain", "Wilson's Creek", "Pea Ridge", "Stonewall", "Drive on Washington", "Corinth" and may be applied to "Bloody April" and "Terrible Swift Sword".
		This is a mammoth Game Kit that attempts to correct the game, because deep under all the bad rules lies a pretty decent game.
	www.dvgc.com /gamekits.html (3488 words)

	backgammon history
		The link between the divination and the game is explained by the nature of the beliefs of those ancient near Eastern civilizations.
		In later versions of the Game of twenty squares this central row will expand to twelve squares and remain unchanged until now.
		Later, those beliefs reached their peak in Egypt with the game of senet composed of three rows of ten squares.
	www.chocolatey.com /pascal/index.php?id=27&PHPSESSID=659fef9f0ea0a86151c56c93b7611753 (671 words)

	Board Game
		A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board.
		Popular games of this type include Monopoly, which is a rough simulation of the real estate market, Clue (in Canada and the U.S.) or Cluedo (internationally), which is based upon a murder mystery, and Risk which is one of the most well known of thousands of games attempting to simulate warfare and geo-politics.
		Carcassonne tokens, or meeplesAlthough many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.
	www.gaissa.com /Board_Games/Board_Game.htm (1742 words)

	Speak Up › Got Game?
		Game play is believed to have been similar to Backgammon, played with two sets (fl and white) of seven markers and three pyramidal dice.
		According to John Aubrey, this game was invented by the British poet Sir John Suckling, as a derived version from the card game called Noddy; it has become one of the most popular games in the English-speaking world.
		The most identifiable item in the game is its scoring board, a series of holes on a piece of wood or plastic (nowadays) on which score is tallied with pegs.
	www.underconsideration.com /speakup/archives/002338.html (3700 words)

	A Game Now Called Royal Game of Ur Is Played Based on 4,500 Year Old Boards Found in the Middle East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The discoveries came from the "Royal Cemetery" in the city-state of Ur in Mesopotamia, which is located about 100 miles northwest of what is now Basra in Iraq.
		The Royal Game of Ur The game is now known as The Royal Game of Ur.
		The games found in Ur's Royal Cemetery had pyramidical dice, each one with its corners shaved flat, and each with two of the four corners marked or inlaid in such a way as to make them stand out.
	www.gamblingorigins.com /gambling-history-mesopotamia.shtml (406 words)

	CyberBee: Games Children Play
		At the Game Cabinet, Catherine Soubeyrand writes a fascinating history of ancient games commencing with Senet, an Egyptian game that may be the forerunner of backgammon.
		The object of the game is to place all of your seeds in the scoring pit and capture your opponent's seeds.
		In the game, there are a series of cards with references to places and characters in the stories along with how many spaces to move.
	www.infotoday.com /MMSchools/sep02/cybe0902.htm (1498 words)

	Antique Mall - FleaMarket - Vintage Fabric - Lee the flea's place for Antiques & Collectibles of every kind!
		Five thousand years ago, in the land of Sumer between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, members of the royal household entertained themselves playing what is now known as the Royal Game of Ur.
		Even today, games are valued for their visual appeal as much as for the game itself.
		Robert Whitman, founder of Bettye-B Co., was one of the first game manufacturers to spin off a TV game show with Masquerade Party, valued at $75 today.
	www.fleatique.com /articles.asp?id=970 (910 words)

	Petra: City of Board Games
		This 4 X 12 game board can be found on a small rock hill infront of the Monastery.
		There are several games played around the world that are similar, but they really are not the same.
		If you think you have invented a game that could be played on the Nabataean 4x10 or 4x14 game board, please contact us and we will print your ideas here.
	nabataea.net /gameskids.html (2621 words)

	TeacherArtExchange (Education at the Getty) - [teacherartexchange] Royal Game of Ur - Mesopotamia (Marcia)
		[teacherartexchange] Royal Game of Ur - Mesopotamia (Marcia)
		There is a 5000 year old game that was found in the ruins at UR.
		The game is very easy to play - and rules are simple.
	www.getty.edu /education/teacherartexchange/archive/Sep06/0295.html (628 words)

	3D Backgammon Unlimited free download by TLK Games: A combination of luck and strategy game, the Backgammon is played ...
		The Backgammon, an immensely popular game for two players, is a clever combination of luck and strategy game that can be played under hundreds of codified variants some of them dating from the high Egyptian antiquity or even earlier like the beautiful Royal game of Ur.
		This game is superbly designed in 3D, with precious textures for the best comfort of playing and learning.
		This game will grow as the skills of the players do, since TLK Games guarantees, for the registered version of this game, a life long guarantee for updates.
	www.softpile.com /Games/Simulations/Review_40220_index.html (377 words)

	Across The Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Board games were very common in ancient Egypt and people from all levels of society played them.
		By studying game boards and other evidence, experts have made some educated guesses about how these games were played.
		The remains of this board were found by Leonard Woolley in a grave at Ur.
	www.acrosstheboard.org.uk /games (166 words)

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		Elements of Senet and the Ur game ended up combining in the Roman Empire, in the form of a game called Tabula, which is already extremely similar in its playstyle to modern Backgammon.
		By the 18th century, the game had acquired the name "Backgammon" in England, and its rules were pretty well formalized and unified into the game it is today.
		The most significant innovation the British added to the game that was not present in Tric-trac or the Jeux Des Tables was the addition of the Doubling Cube, which greatly enhanced the level of strategy in the game for multi-game tourneys, and made the game even more appealing to Gamblers.
	www.xanga.com /RPGpundit/526062496/item.html (1088 words)

	UR Information
		Ur is the name of a minor Gnostic deity.
		Ur was also a code-name of the Polish Karabin przeciwpancerny wz.35 anti-tank rifle
		In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Jingo, Ur is a small nation whose inhabitants, according to one character, are "a byword for bucolic stupidity."
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/UR (145 words)

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