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The Nine men's morris is not just a game: it is a very common symbol that can be found engraved in ancient monuments and almost always vertically, on a wall. When it is horizontal you might think it was used to play, but vertically no! On this page...

UFO Wave, new UFO based card game.

Hi i would like to meet persons interested on testing a new kind of board game similar to ouija or tarod cards, if you are interested on being a betatester, post here and we will try it. the "world after pandemic" sesion

Deciphering the Patterns of the Royal Game of Ur Board - Part 1 Source: ancient-origins.net Date: 5 March, 2020 The world’s first known board game was found in Mesopotamia (c. 2600 BC). Despite this, Egyptian beliefs help us best to understand the Royal Game of Ur’s board design, rules and...

(This thread has been spun off from the Ouija Board thread.) I'm placing this in the Ouija Board thread and although not technically a Ouija board, it appears new revelations suggest that the ancient Egyptian game of 'Senet' evolved from a regular board game into a conduit through which...

It's been debated and joked about for decades. Now, for the first time, video / computer game addiction has been officially designated as a disorder. FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/65580-video-game-addiction-mental-health-disorder.html Related Threads: Deaths Related to Video...

To steal and adapt a line from the comments to the ensuing article, if Death turns up and accepts a challenge for your soul, this may well be your go-to board game (assuming you can't find Twister): It’ll take you about 1,500 hours (or 62 days) to complete a full play of The Campaign For...

Should politicians have to explain why they do live-action roleplay?

Old gits and/or fans of The Who will know that the record Pinball Wizard(1969) and film "Tommy" (1975) is about a "deaf, dumb, and blind kid" who "Sure plays a mean pinball." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Wizard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(film) Real pinball machines have...

This is as much an ethical point as a newsworthy one. The BBC says: Now, in light of the wider ethical point this raises, I've started a dedicated thread here. Given the logical conclusion in this case, then surely the wider ethical point would include the eventual, potential...

MODS, please move if necessary. I wasn't quite sure if it was Esoterica, Ghosts or whatever! I need help finding a good website that describes and shows how Victorian spiritualists would fool their audiences. I need details and if possible, diagrams of set-up, positioning, lighting etc. I am...

Couldn't quite find a thread like this. Anybody remember playing or know of good examples of Frortean board games? Both 'board game' and 'fortean' are not exactly well-defined things, but I don't mean RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons or whatever and Ouija boards have their own thread. But surely...

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Hi, Does anyone have any Poker / Gaming / Gambling related fortean tales. Just out of interest realy, the related threads seem to just list types of gambling or games. Has any one ever come across a tale of a cursed game or gambler. Or on the otherhand any luck stories, someone who...

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I'm trying to find out about unusual gambling games, the more macabre the better, for a piece of fiction. Does anyone know of any ??? credit will be given in the unlikely event its ever published.

Monopoly and other game legends What are the legends you have heard about Monopoly? Found a cool site: http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/index.html#american This site has many cool old games listed, and it even talked about the disputed origins of Monopoly (it was actually based on an...

Chess. Reading about 18th Century automaton the Mechanical Turk has resparked my interest in chess (and if you know the secret of the Turk, pray keep it to yourself for the nonce. I am half way through the book and thoroughly enjoying it) I played chess briefly as a 14 year old, but the...

Does anyone know the rules to supercheckers? Size of the board? Pieces? It sounds fun, without making it into a mah-johhng-esque mysteries-of-the-universe-in-a-game thing