This is wonderful info thank you I will be making the horseshoe game for sure and maybe the other one too. I love games and am always on the lookout for ones that are easy, fun, and can be made by my self within the means of my limited crafting skillls
We've really got into gaming the last 3 years. It creates such good family time and rips people away from the Zombie held devices. I have a few questions on this game. No backwards moves ? No kinging ? majority of pcs making it to the oppositions 1st line wins ? Good video !
Lovely video! And a good simple explanation into the games! I found it as I was exploring around Alfonso's games, for some future videos of my own. Do you know how sure we are of the rules to horseshoe? It's not in Libro de los juegos, and I'm curious of if there are other sources for the actual rules?
Bit of a late answer, two years :-) But if you didn't find it, it's Libro de los juegos. Here's the wikipedia entry, from there you should be able to find your way to more documentation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_juegos
Well depending on how far back you go in history it gets kind of hard to tell what's a game and what's am odd device or design we don't have a good explanation for. There are a few examples of neolithic rocks with holes drilled into them in very particular patterns, but there's no way of knowing of they were a game or not. Mancala on the other hand has been played throughout nearly all of African history to the present day, and because of the simplicity of materials involved some variation of it assumed to be the first game. As for games we know for certain how to play and are fairly confidently able to date, the Royal Game of Ur or the game of 20 squares was played in Mesopotamia since at least 2400 BC Edit: oh you meant in the video...
I like the simplicity of the first game"Horseshoe" in how you play it and how simple it is to make!
This is wonderful info thank you I will be making the horseshoe game for sure and maybe the other one too. I love games and am always on the lookout for ones that are easy, fun, and can be made by my self within the means of my limited crafting skillls
This was a super interesting and well presented video. I’ve been trying to find more info on medieval games
Seems
This is basically checkers
We've really got into gaming the last 3 years. It creates such good family time and rips people away from the Zombie held devices. I have a few questions on this game. No backwards moves ? No kinging ? majority of pcs making it to the oppositions 1st line wins ? Good video !
That story about the rules manuscript is really interesting.
12 man morris
Lovely video! And a good simple explanation into the games! I found it as I was exploring around Alfonso's games, for some future videos of my own. Do you know how sure we are of the rules to horseshoe? It's not in Libro de los juegos, and I'm curious of if there are other sources for the actual rules?
The second game is like Kono
www.ancientgames.org/alfonso-xs-book-games-libro-de-los-juegos/ LINK ABOUT THE REFERENCED MANUSCRIPT
Can you tell us the name of the manuscript?
Or even better, provide a link to it?
I believe it is called Alfonso x book of games.
Bit of a late answer, two years :-) But if you didn't find it, it's Libro de los juegos. Here's the wikipedia entry, from there you should be able to find your way to more documentation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_juegos
@@JonBck better late then never!
ty for the link :)
What's the name of first abstract board game? Thanks!
It looks like fanorona but plays like checkers
He called the first game "Horseshoe" but idk for the second one...
Well depending on how far back you go in history it gets kind of hard to tell what's a game and what's am odd device or design we don't have a good explanation for. There are a few examples of neolithic rocks with holes drilled into them in very particular patterns, but there's no way of knowing of they were a game or not. Mancala on the other hand has been played throughout nearly all of African history to the present day, and because of the simplicity of materials involved some variation of it assumed to be the first game. As for games we know for certain how to play and are fairly confidently able to date, the Royal Game of Ur or the game of 20 squares was played in Mesopotamia since at least 2400 BC
Edit: oh you meant in the video...