Daldos evolved from Tab gams

 DALDOS is the ship game of the Mary Rose shipwreck.

There is a neglected category of board games that is neither pure war nor pure race. It is an in-between category. Tab-like games. This is where the game Daldos falls.

The tab game has its origin in the Near East & Africa. Already being played in Egypt during the 13th C BCE.

In 1267 the game was mentioned in the poem DIWAN by Muhammad Ibn Daniyal, a Persian poet & physicist.

Tab is a game in which the purpose is to eliminate the opponent's pieces while moving along a linear track depending on dice rolls 

the number of lines (or points) along a track varies from as many as 18 to as few as 11.

a theory is that tab games were imported to Europe by Viking merchants or mercenaries from the Middle East & further spread during their conquests to England. 

The game Libre de los Juegos from the, Alphonso X the Wise Manuscript (1283) does contain an elimination game along the line, in the game of astronomical tables. 

With all games from history, I feel I need to point out these are oral traditions written rules are a modern idea. The other thing is that playing more than one game on any board is also a common thing looks as a chess/checker board and you understand what this means. 

This game seems to have evidence of being a coastal town game played today in the northern area of Europe. (Jaeren,Thy, Mors, Fano, Bornholm) 

However historic boards have been found in Novgorod Russia, (15 lines) 14th century made of spruce. With the back having nine-man Morris on it. (Age from the book Wood Use in Medieval Novgorod by M. Brisbane.


On a barrel lid of theory Rose shipwreck again with a nine-man Morris board on the same lid. 15th Century. That sank 1545.

A game board carved in the stone at the Lincoln Cathedral,UK. Photo by Mark Hall in Historie etc Images Medievales.

Playing this game. (Still to come)

For a rule set, we turn to Board Games Articales/ studies chapter 4.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340690811_Examining_Board_Gameplay_and_Learning_A_Multidisciplinary_Review_of_Recent_Research

https://sciendo.com/issue/BGS/18/1



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