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Mar 20, 2024·How to play·08:29·339·Watch on YouTube

I call this "the most Roman game of them all" - Duodecim Scriptorum!

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Watch “I call this "the most Roman game of them all" - Duodecim Scriptorum!,” a how-to-play guide for Duodecim Scriptorum on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by NewVenture Games on YouTube:

This game embodies much of Roman culture - the "vulgar" bits (from Latin vulgus: ‘common people’) to the "intellectual" challenges (from Latin intellectualis: 'relating to the understanding'). Dice (of course), racing around a track, hindering your opponent - popular stuff in the colosseum. The cleaver aspect of using words on many of the game boards tossed in some degree of literacy and poetry (more often vulgar than intellectual). It's an outstanding example of a prominent game in the evolution of the entire family of tables games, and lasted in some form for about 600 years throughout the Empire. Thanks again for watching, sharing, subscribing, commenting, and all that. Don't forget to visit https://newventuregames.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/NewVentureGames and be sure to play every day! See more at BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/33690/duodecim-scriptorum

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Duodecim Scriptorum

Duodecim Scriptorum

2010

2 players
30 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Duodecim Scriptorum, from BoardGameGeek:

This game is sometimes referred to an "Roman backgammon" but is different not only because of the board-- which could be drawn in the dirt using "12 Lines" and hence the name-- and because the Romans used tetrahedral knuck-bones instead of the more modern six-sided dice, the game is also more like the backgammon variant Acey-Ducey [traditional among seamen] in that the pieces start off the board, that rolls must be exact to take a piece off the board and other details.

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