Thread 95886658

Has anyone played the oldest traditional game there is?

>>95886658 (OP)
How do you even play it? Is it like chess?

>>95886678
no. IIRC it's a mind-numbingly simple dice game meant to imitate chariot races

>>95886658 (OP)
Are we not counting dice games? The oldest dice we've found are 5000+ years old. True, they were probably used in divination, but also probably for games.

>>95886658 (OP)
Nobody knows the rules of senet so no one alive has played what you've pictured.

>>95886818
You can't count a game as oldest if you don't know even know what the game was or if it even existed. The oldest dated dice come from the same time as the oldest evidence for senet anyway.

>>95886818
>cave paintings were just ancient monster manuals

>>95886658 (OP)
I used to play this on both my old phone and at a friend's house. It is fine but not really hard.

>>95886658 (OP)
Yugioh was one of the first traditional games I really got into.

>>95887430
Its also one of the oldest, the ancient egyptians played it

>>95886873
>Goes on 4rocks to complain about the latest mural errata.

>>95886658 (OP)
You can't play games you don't have rules for.

Speaking of which, is ur the oldest game that we know the rules for? Or is there older?

>>95886873
Work on your art

>>95887465
>aurochs too OP, ban when?

>/tg/ - Traditional Games
>almost all games discussed are at under 60 years old
Curious!

>>95886873
Someone suggested the voynich manuscript was an elaborate prop for a role playing game played and made by a small group of people and that actually goes a long way to describe why it's so bizarre.
>>95886818
Divination? Nah, most likely gambling. Booze, broads, and gambling are as old as humans.

>>95887620
You know Grogs of the Cave favor berrypickers with the massive update they got. Total bullshit

>>95887808
Interesting side note, in an effort to track down the origin of Jack and the Beanstalk, it was discovered most cultures had an old story about a poor youth going to a fantastical land and stealing treasure from a monster like creature. The origin of that goes all the way back to the literal Stone Age humans.

Yes.

It's pretty shit.

>>95887801
>Divination? Nah, most likely gambling. Booze, broads, and gambling are as old as humans.
Divination is just as ancient and people across cultures have used the weirdest items and methods for divination

>>95887801
>Someone suggested the voynich manuscript was an elaborate prop for a role playing game

I first saw that explanation from xkcd years ago. I don't know if he was the first to make that observation though.
It kind of makes sense, but I still think it's most likely a hoax or attempted scam.

>>95886658 (OP)
sandbox? gather the bugs? mudpie contests?

>>95888374
>>95886873
>>95887801
>me and grugs playing ump Mammoths and Mountains
>Brug insist on play Stabsneak again
>Brug always steal shiny rock from other when play Stabsneak
>Urgh playing Skyspeak Clubber
>Urgh take extra Healing Touch feat this time, Urgh good
>Garug playing Medicine Woman
>Garug good fren but why always play young pre honka-honka girl?
>Lorug play stone-slinger
>Lorug really want play bow shooter but tell Lorug bow not exist in um fantasy world. Lorug upset but say stone just as good as fly stick
>Arg bring minmaxed Shaman again
>Arg funny think brain. Arg no make work in camp, spend all day reading Mammoths and Mountains cave paintings, Arg no how to break balance
>I play as Mountain Master
>Others say I good MM

>>95886723
Roll-and-moves were really common in older games. Those and dice games, particularly. Mancala games are also pretty prominent, but seem to have spread less in the West compared to Africa and the East.

Senet is reliable dated to about 5,000 years old IIRC but we have evidence of what are probably board game pieces and possible mancala boards going back even further, maybe as much as 10,000 years ago. I think it's an underrated human trait that we tend to gamify pretty much everything we do.

>>95886723
So it's pocket parcheesi?

>>95887808
the Vth edition of Caves & Creatures still sucks though

>>95886658 (OP)
Yeah there is an app for it.
It's ok, a lot like the game Sorry! If I'm honest

>>95886658 (OP)
Never played Senet, but I played the Royal Game of Ur a bunch. Fun game but you kinda get into the strategy pretty quickly and then it becomes fairly rote, mostly about managing your good or bad luck.

>>95886873
Work on your art.

>>95887430
kek

>>95886658 (OP)
Wasn't picrel older?