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Sep 28, 2021·How to play·05:27·1·Watch on YouTube

How To Play Five Lines - The ancient Greek race game.

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Watch “How To Play Five Lines - The ancient Greek race game.,” a how-to-play guide for Five Lines from NewVenture Games on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by NewVenture Games on YouTube:

This two-player race game was known as "Pente Grammai" in Greece over 2500 years ago. I present just one of several ways the game might have been played. Like so many games from long ago, no details about game play survive. These rules are speculative, developed by game scholars and archaeologists, and many variations can be found online and in print. Five Lines is a distant ancestor of games like Backgammon, and similar in some ways to Pachisi. We hope you enjoy Five Lines, and be sure to visit NewVentureGames.com for this and more "Peg Pastimes" games! https://newventuregames.com/products/five-lines/ https://www.NewVentureGames.com https://Facebook.com/NewVentureGames See it on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/340997/five-lines

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Five Lines

Five Lines

2 players
20 min

About Five Lines, from BoardGameGeek:

Five Lines comes from ancient Greece, where it was known as Pente Grammai. Around 600 BCE, the Greek poet Alkaois referred to the game in one of his poems, and clay game boards have been found dating to the same period. During the decades around 500 BCE, the Athenians wrote that Ajax and Achilles played the game during the siege of Troy. For that reason, it is sometimes called "the game of heroes". The game became very popular in Rome, where the board uses spaces instead of lines.

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