Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 13, 2023

Glad for Rocky!

Is that where the expression pharaoh-nuff came from??

So….were the Egyptians supposed to be playing X-box instead?

Apparently they filled the position of Uno Test Pilot >

Egyptian board games of old: Mehen, Senet, Twenty Squares, and Hounds and Jackals

On the old movie, The Ten Commandments, Pharoah and the princess played a board game with pieces called the foxes and the hounds.

Mattel tried to get Suzi Quatro to endorse the game, but she was on tour with Leather Tuscadero

I heard Mark Anthony and Cleopatra use to like to play strip poker along the Nile and then they’d go skinny dipping.

Rocky is a chip off the old block.

The board games reminded me of a conversation I had many years ago, about how old some of the world’s most popular games are.

For example:

Parcheesi is based on Pachisi — a game that originated in India. Basic game rules have players traveling around the cross-shaped board from start to home. Landing on another players’ marker sends that player back to start.

Also invented in India in the 6th century is Chess, the rules have changed over the years with multiple variations of the game, but it is still among the world’s most popular strategy type board games

Dominoes originated in China, where dominoes or playing cards—the same word is used for both, and they are physically identical—are mentioned as early as the 10th century.

The game board found in many of the pyramids was called Senetand dates back to circa 3100 BCE. and is still played in a modified form throughout Egypt

And you might want to drag up a cracker barrel and some rocking chairs, because:

Historians now believe that the oldest form of checkers was played around 3,000 B.C.E. It was found by archeologists in an ancient city called Ur in Iraq. Those who have studied the history of checkers have also found a game called Alquerque. It was played in ancient Egypt as far back as 1,400 B.C.E.

About the same time frame (circa 3000 BCE) the Romans played Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum (“Twelve-lined Game”), which was identical, or nearly so, to modern backgammon.

Odd how the classics remain in spite of computer simulation video games.

Well, that ancient Egyptians had board games sounds normal to me. I think a better question would be "What cultures did not have board games?

$4444 a week for 4 weeks comes to $17,776 a month and $231,088 a year. But he was only employed for the 4 weeks. Hope he saved some.

I bet Rocky’s gotten good about enunciation.

Senet.

I’d rather read Jason’s comments than political comments.

Were they initially called BORED games?