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...

Mikado (pick up sticks) Rules Classic Mikado consists of 41 sticks, around 15 cm long, coded with different values that have a total of 170 points. Name Traditional wood type Coding Point value Number of sticks Mikado walnut blue 20 pts 1 Mandarin cherry yellow/black, middle wide two narrow stripes on the ends 10 pts 5 Bonzen      (jpbouzu) oak orange, five stripes 5 pts 5 Samurai beech green, three stripes 3 pts 15 Kuli (cn. guli) / Worker ash red, two stripes 2 pts 15   The sticks are bundled and taken in one hand that touches the table or ground. The release creates a circular jumble. Now the players take turns, in which one stick after another should be...

Daldos What Type of game is it, How to play,  Where and when it was played,   & my theories on it.  Part of My Mary Rose Project Marilyn Strawberry Holt  known in the SCA as THL Mwynwen Ysginidd   Denmark and Norway share a game called Daldos or Daldosa and have relative variations played as far north as Lappland.  This game has evidence of being a coastal town game played today in the northern area of Europe. (Jaeren,Thy, Mors, Fano, Bornholm) This is a racing game that has direct capture, it is played with a pair of 4-sided dice. It could also be called a running fight game. somewhere between a racing game and a capture game. For years this style of game was only believed to have been played in the Arab-Muslim world. These games form a group with many variations, known under various names from West Africa to India - tab,taba,tab wa-dukk in the Middle East; sig, sik, sir, siki, in North Africa- sig wa-duqqan  As with most all games ...

 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....