Ancient Board Games - Duodecim Scripta

This week we looked at more Ancient Board Games, This weeks included Duodecim Scripta and Tabula.

Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum, also known as the game of twelve lines.

Bell shows an image of a man and woman playing a game marked with twelve lines in the C2nd-3rd BC). He also notes that the engravings may show a early version of the game known as XII Scripta.

There have been lots of different board designs, some of which use symbols while others use words.

H.J.R. Murray describes the game as a backgammon-style race game for two players. 

Within gameplay each player has 15 pieces and the game is played with three six sided dice. Players roll the three dice and can either use scores individually or combined.

I think this is an interesting game with unique mechanics, but isn't one of the most interesting Ancient Games we have studied in Eddies lectures.