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Posted by nobody9999 4 days ago

Ancient Roman Board Game(ludus-coriovalli.web.app)
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butlike 5 hours ago|
The AI could have constructed any number of rules seeing as how it's literally a "best guess" and it chose rules that aren't very fun. Congratulations, I guess.

Edit: Or, put a different way: Sometimes the rules to games are lost for a reason; they're not very good.

samaysharma 5 hours ago||
I was curious to learn more about how they discovered and reconstructed the rules. They explain that at: https://ludus-coriovalli.web.app/about
wood_spirit 6 hours ago||
Another ancient board game to be decoded is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur. This is from 2600BC so is older to Christ than Christ is to us.

The videos on the game (and all his other videos) with Irving Finkel, a curator at the British museum, are spellbinding. He has the looks, manners and enthusiasm of an eccentric museum curator from central casting!

ChocMontePy 2 hours ago||
There's an online version to play that I find surprisingly addictive:

https://royalur.net/

tokai 1 hour ago||
Thank you. I had never played it, surprisingly fun. Much like Ludo but actually better.
timbit42 4 hours ago|||
You mean Irving Finkel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Finkel
dyauspitr 3 hours ago||
> A partial description in cuneiform of the rules of the Game of Ur as played in the second century BC has been preserved on a Babylonian clay tablet written by the scribe Itti-Marduk-balāṭu.

This is much more palatable and cool since they’re not just randomly guessing what the game can be like this article is

faidit 7 hours ago||
Playing a lost 2000 year old game is awesome.
iqbal1980 4 hours ago|
Cool however no idea how to play this!