The Rampant Strawberry Inn

Senet         Class notes first taught by me at Pennsic 49 2022 By THL Mwynwen Ysginidd Called Strawberry  Search Blog for Stick dice for other notes    “In a presentation to the XX Board Games Studies Colloquium at the  University of Copenhagen , Denmark,  Espen Aarseth  asked if the game senet could be said to still exist, given that the rules were unknown. [11]  In response,  Alexander de Voogt  of the  American Museum of Natural History  pointed out that games did not have a fixed set of rules, but rules varied over time and from place to place. Moreover, many players of games, even today, do not play (or sometimes do not even know) the "official rules".” Quote from Wikki WITH THIS IN MIND, I PRESENT ONE SET OF RULES Materials: Senet board, 4 throwing sticks, 5 dark tokens, 5 light tokens Setup: Place all the colored tokens on squares 1–10, with the light tokens on the odd-numbere...

Links provided  for each image and more information of the boars directly please check out  Goose and path games ( by Luigi Ciompi & Adrian Seville ) translations by Luigi Ciompi and google translate. Adrian Seville has many books of all the aspects of the game of goose and is the for most expert on the subject I only own one of his books.  Il Bello et Dilettevole Giuoco dell’Oca Gaspar ab Avibus Citadelensis, Venetis 1567/80. Acquaforte (taille-douce) (ecthing), 580x428. Collezione A. Toffanin (Gioco dell’Oca Classico)  http://www.giochidelloca.it/index.php Novo ( The ) Gioco de Loca ( The new Game of the Goose )  1580ca From: NEGRI, Ilio - VERCELLONI, Virgilio: "The games of dice of chance and pastime of gentlemen and pirates"  http://www.giochidelloca.it/scheda.php?id=252 Chess and goose game board India, Gujarat late 16th century(1500-1550) Currently oldest surviving board https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/202612 This next board has th...

 The Game of Goose A Board & How to play  The goose board, dice & pawn 2 to 6 player game. The game requires two, 6 sided dice, the board of 63 spaces with hazards marked, and game pawns for player   Goal land on 63 exactly first. Each player rolls one die and highest roll goes first then play moves to the left. Game can be played with gambling (I suggest chocolate kisses). If so players agree on the stakes at the start. Each player places 1 stake in the center making the pool. Every time a player lands on a Hazzard they pay one stake. When players land on other players including the prison and the well both players pay one stake. Fist player to land on 63 exactly wins the pool. Geese are not hazards.  (Bonus rule modern; you win one stake back every time you land on a Goose) 63 must be reached exactly, such Overthrows are completed by counting the excess spaces backwards from 63.  You will notice that the geese on the board are spaced in two sequen...

  I am re trying to carve a goose board print block. It will be a solid one not the many mini blocks put together. I think I can only do 2 squares at a time by hand, my hands cannot handle more. The limits of EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) means if I limit this work that I might be able to do the work everyday with out missing too many days in-between. If it turns out too much for my hands I will switch to working on it every other day. I have plans every weekend for the next 3 weekends How  I am making this stamp. I have graphite paper. I traced the period board through the paper it is printed on by putting it on a window to see though this is so I am working in the reverse. Stamps have to be carved in reverse so when you stamp they are facing the correct way. Folks that use printing presses have and had to be able to read upside down and backwards.  I took the paper with the reverse board on it and then lay that on the rubber with Graphite paper between them. Then draw ov...

CROWN & ANCHOR In medieval England and Europe there were many dice game of chance the lot of them being refereed to a lotto games.  The rolling of 3 dice and losing if the roll is less then 10 or doubling if it is 10 and above was one such variant. In this game one person would be the banker, one other person would roll and if the roller rolled 10 or over he would be the roller again but if he rolled below 10  he would pass the dice. The banker changed for every single roll. One game evolved and continues today in England and has its own society even that is Crown and Anchor. in stead of the 6 sided dice having 1 though 6 on them they have the 4 french card suits and a Crown and Anchor on them. This same game can be played with regular 1 through 6 dice. How to play Crown and Anchor One person is declared the banker, this position changes after each roll. One person is declared the 1st roller. the 1st roller and all other players except the banker place one ...

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...