The Rampant Strawberry Inn

Egyptian sticks, Rolling sticks, Dice for Senet Stick Dice have been found in tombs with a board that we call Senet.  Those rolling sticks, were long like chop sticks and just a little bit thicker and they taper on their ends which were decoratively carved. Sticks are not quite like 2 sided dice. With a true 2 sided die you have a 50/50 chance of it landing on either side. but since these are half round on one side and flat on the other the probability is closer to 33/66. (I am not mathematically inclined so if you know the exact probability let me know and I will up date this to reflect that.) There are other rolling sticks that were 3 sided, and I will cover that in a future post when I am making a board game that calls for them. I will give you the rule sets for rolling for the game of Senet, and also for using them for games of chance the way we use dice or knuckle bones. Some types of games will be listed after that at the bottom of this page. Using Rolling stic...

Mills and Morris Games  Mills games are ancient. and have been played up to today. You can play on line and there are apps for this game with 9 man being the most popular. Here are the stamps and stamped boards that I have done.  This game is a mostly fast game to kill time between going other things.little kids can play the 3 man version and 1st graders can learn the other versions. It is one of the first games that people learn in reenactment. You played a form variation of this game as a child called TicTac Toe. the board for tic tac toe is like the 3 Man Morris board but you have walls so you can move around after the pieces are placed and you get pieces till all spaces are full. in 3 Man Morris you only get 3 pieces and when you both run out if neither has a 3 in a row you then start moving your pieces from one spot to a empty spot. The board at the bottom of the photo is 3 Man Morris or 3 man mills. In the Roman territories often times Roto was the fo...

Circular Chess board for Byzantine Chess Final Test Print Though this game is called Byzantine Chess it has not been linked directly to The Byzantine Empire at all. Here is a nice short and easy to follow, write up on it as well as how to play from "learn-to-play-chess.com Copyright 2008-19"    h ttp://www.learn-and-play-online-chess.com/circular-chess.html   The process The work has begun on a block to use to stamp a circular chess board. After much building it in my head and taking it apart again, I have come up with the idea of making one 1/4 stamp that is placed 4 times to create the board. I don't know how popular this board will or wont be so I might have to re think it if it turns out I need to make large quantities of them, in which case I will make one large board stamp by making 4 stamps and attaching them together permanently.  Block with spaces drawn on.  You can also see the Degrees written on for the radiations for the...