"manufacture it. It was Waddingtons who renamed the game Cluedo (a combination of ""Clue"" and """"Ludo"""", a Latin word meaning ""I play""). But material shortages in post-war Britain meant the game did not go into production until 1949. Pratt was granted patent GB586817 'Improvements in Board Games' on 1 April 1947. After the end of the Second World War Pratt entered the British Civil Service working for the Ministry of Labour helping demobbed servicemen and women to return to peacetime work. In 1953, four years after Cluedo first went on sale, Waddingtons told Pratt that the game was not selling"
"Ludus duodecim scriptorum Ludus duodecim scriptorum, or XII scripta, was a board game popular during the time of the Roman Empire. The name translates as ""game of twelve markings"", probably referring to the three rows of 12 markings each found on most surviving boards. The game tabula is thought to be a descendant of this game, and both are similar to modern backgammon. It has been speculated that XII scripta is related to the Egyptian game senet, but some consider this doubtful because, with the exception of limited superficial similarities between the appearance of the boards, and the use of"
"The word ""ludus"" also referred to a training school for gladiators; see Gladiator: Schools and training. Examples include the Ludus Magnus and Ludus Dacicus. ""Ludus"" was also the word for a board game, examples of which include ""ludus latrunculorum"" and ""ludus duodecim scriptorum"", or a game played with knucklebones (""astragali""). Latin poetry often explores the concept of ""ludus"" as playfulness, both in the writing of poetry as a kind of play and as a field for erotic role-playing. ""Poetic play (""ludus"", ""ludere"", ""iocum"", etc.),"" Michèle Lowrie observes, ""denotes two related things: stylistic elegance of the Alexandrian variety and erotic poetry."""
"the Swedish side of the border, and in Salten on the Dano-Norwegian side of the border. The game may have been called something else than tablut by the Sámi, since the word ""tablut"" (also rendered ""dablut"") simply means ""to play boardgames"". Linnaeus likely misunderstood the word describing the general activity as the name of the game. However, tablut has been established as its modern name, since no other name for it is known. For the same reason, another traditional Sámi board game is today called ""dablo"" or ""dablot"" which similarly just means ""gameboard"" and ""playing a board game"". The game"
"types of board games similar to checkers. Both Plato and Homer mention board games called 'petteia' (games played with pessoi', i.e. 'pieces' or 'men'). According to Plato, they are all Egyptian in origin. The name 'petteia' seems to be a generic term for board game and refers to various games. One such game was called 'poleis' (city states) and was a game of battle on a checkered board. The Romans played a derivation of 'petteia' called 'latrunculi' or Ludus latrunculorum (the soldiers' game or the bandits' game). It is first mentioned by Varro (116–27 BCE) and alluded to by Martial"
"Alias (board game) Alias is a board game, where the objective of the players is to explain words to each other. Hence, Alias is similar to Taboo, but the only forbidden word in the explanations is the word to be explained. The game is played in teams of varying size, and fits well as a party game for larger crowds. The game is very competitive. ""Alias"" has been developed in Finland and is produced by Nelostuote Oy under the brand name Tactic. The game has been on the market since the early 1990s and is one of the most popular"
"Mare Nostrum (board game) Mare Nostrum is a board game for 3 to 5 players, designed by Serge Laget and published in 2003 by Eurogames. It was also the name of a 1983 board game in the Fronte Mare series. Players assume the roles of one of five Mediterranean empires - Rome, Greece, Babylon, Egypt or Carthage. Units are placed on a game board representing the Mediterranean and the surrounding area, divided into provinces which contain one or more resources. Players take turns in rounds of three phases: The first player to do any of the following wins the game:"
"of that story."" ""Here I Stand"" won the 2006 Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Pre–World War II Boardgame. It is # 7 on Boardgamegeek's War Game Rank. Here I Stand (boardgame) Here I Stand is a board game first published by GMT Games in 2006. ""Here I Stand"" is a card-based wargame in which players struggle for religious and political influence over early 16th century Europe during the Reformation. It can be played by up to 6 players, who represent the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, England, France, The Papacy, and The Protestants. The game begins in 1517 and"
"8 AD). An ancient example of the game was excavated at the archaeological site of Kibyra in southern Turkey. Ludus duodecim scriptorum Ludus duodecim scriptorum, or XII scripta, was a board game popular during the time of the Roman Empire. The name translates as ""game of twelve markings"", probably referring to the three rows of 12 markings each found on most surviving boards. The game tabula is thought to be a descendant of this game, and both are similar to modern backgammon. It has been speculated that XII scripta is related to the Egyptian game senet, but some consider this"
"Here I Stand (boardgame) Here I Stand is a board game first published by GMT Games in 2006. ""Here I Stand"" is a card-based wargame in which players struggle for religious and political influence over early 16th century Europe during the Reformation. It can be played by up to 6 players, who represent the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, England, France, The Papacy, and The Protestants. The game begins in 1517 and ends in 1555, taking up to 9 turns to play each representing about 4 years of history. The game is played in ""impulses"", with each player, one after"
"Ludibrium Ludibrium is a word derived from Latin ""ludus"" (plural ""ludi""), meaning a plaything or a trivial game. In Latin ""ludibrium"" denotes an object of fun, and at the same time, of scorn and derision, and it also denotes a capricious game itself: e.g., ""ludibria ventis"" (Virgil), ""the playthings of the winds"", ""ludibrium pelagis"" (Lucretius), ""the plaything of the waves""; ""Ludibrio me adhuc habuisti"" (Plautus), ""Until now you have been toying with me."" The term ""ludibrium"" was used frequently by Johann Valentin Andreae (1587–1654) in phrases like ""the ludibrium of the fictitious Rosicrucian Fraternity"" when describing the Rosicrucian Order, most"
"Ludus latrunculorum Ludus latrunculorum, latrunculi, or simply latrones (“the game of brigands”, from ""latrunculus"", diminutive of ""latro"", mercenary or highwayman) was a two-player strategy board game played throughout the Roman Empire. It is said to resemble chess or draughts, but is generally accepted to be a game of military tactics. Because of the paucity of sources, reconstruction of the game's rules and basic structure is difficult, and therefore there are multiple interpretations of the available evidence. The game of ""latrunculi"" is believed to be a variant of earlier Greek games known variously as ""Petteia"", ""pessoí"", ""psêphoi"", ""poleis"" and ""pente grammaí"","
"played board games pitting two players against each other, including ""latrunculi"" (""Raiders""), a game of strategy in which opponents coordinated the movements and capture of multiple game pieces, and ""XII scripta"" (""Twelve Marks""), involving dice and arranging pieces on a grid of letters or words. A game referred to as ""alea"" (dice) or ""tabula"" (the board), to which the emperor Claudius was notoriously addicted, may have been similar to backgammon, using a dice-cup ""(pyrgus)"". Playing with dice as a form of gambling was disapproved of, but was a popular pastime during the December festival of the Saturnalia with its carnival,"
"Lexiko Lexiko was a word game invented by Alfred Butts. It was a precursor of ""Scrabble"". The name comes from the Greek ""lexicos"", meaning of ""words."" ""Lexiko"" was played with a set of 100 square cardboard tiles, with the same letter distribution later used by ""Scrabble"" (see Scrabble letter distributions), but no board. Players drew nine tiles at random, and attempted to construct words from them. In 1931, Butts wrote a paper entitled ""Study of Games."" In his paper, he described three categories of games: board, number games using playing cards or dice, and letter games (or games that fell"
"Nine men's morris Nine men's morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire. The game is also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills, merelles, marelles, morelles and ninepenny marl in English. The game has also been called cowboy checkers and is sometimes printed on the back of checkerboards. Nine men's morris is a solved game – one in which either player can force the game into a draw. Its name derives from the Latin word , 'gamepiece'. Three main alternative variations of the game are three, six,"
"Carcassonne (board game) Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games (until 2012) and Z-Man Games (currently) in English. It received the Spiel des Jahres and the Deutscher Spiele Preis awards in 2001. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. The game has spawned many expansions and spin-offs, and several PC, console and mobile versions. A new edition, with updated artwork on the tiles and the"
"in nomenclature was in the other direction and the game ""alea"" was later referred to as ""tabula"". Alea (Greek soldier) According to the ""Etymologiae"" by Isidore of Seville, Alea was a Greek soldier of the Trojan War who invented the dicing game tabula. French sociologist Roger Caillois uses the term ""alea"" to designate those games which rely on luck rather than skill in ""Man, Play and Games"". While Caillois notes the term is the Roman word for games of chance, Robert C. Bell suggests that the Greek game tabula, a precursor to modern backgammon, became more commonly known as ""alea"""
"Tafl games Tafl games (also known as hnefatafl games) are a family of ancient Nordic and Celtic strategy board games played on a checkered or latticed gameboard with two armies of uneven numbers. Most probably it is based upon the Roman game Ludus latrunculorum. Names of different variants of Tafl include Hnefatafl, Tablut, Tawlbwrdd, Brandubh, Ard Rí, and Alea Evangelii. Games in the tafl family were played in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Britain, Ireland, and Sápmi. Tafl gaming was eventually supplanted by chess in the 12th Century, but the tafl variant of the Sámi people, tablut, was in play until"
"Tabula (game) Tabula (Byzantine Greek: τάβλι), meaning a plank or board, was a Greco-Roman board game, and is generally thought to be the direct ancestor of modern backgammon. According to the ""Etymologiae"" by Isidore of Seville, tabula was first invented by a Greek soldier of the Trojan War named Alea. The earliest description of ""τάβλι"" (tavli) is in an epigram of Byzantine emperor Zeno (r. 474–475; 476–491), given by Agathias of Myrine (6th century AD), who describes a game in which Zeno goes from a strong position to a very weak one after an unfortunate dice roll. The rules of"
"Giuoco Piano The Giuoco Piano (Italian: ""Quiet Game""; ), also called the Italian Opening, is a chess opening beginning with the moves: Common alternatives to 3...Bc5 include 3...Nf6 (the Two Knights Defence) and 3...Be7 (the Hungarian Defence). Much less common are 3...d6 (the Semi-Italian Opening), 3...g6, 3...Nd4 (the Blackburne Shilling Gambit), and 3...f5 (the Rousseau Gambit). The Giuoco Piano is one of the oldest recorded openings. The Portuguese Damiano played it at the beginning of the 16th century and the Italian Greco played it at the beginning of the 17th century. The opening is also known as the Italian Game"
"the three cubical dice. Little specific text about the gameplay of Ludus duodecim scriptorum has survived; it may have been related to the older Ancient Greek dice game Kubeia. The earliest known mention of the game is in Ovid's Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) (written between 1 BC and 8 AD). In Roman times this game was also known as alea, and a likely apocryphal Latin story linked this name, and the game, to a Trojan soldier named Alea. Race board games involving dice have existed for millennia in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean, including the game senet"
"Lotus (board game) Lotus is a board game for two to four players developed by Dominique Tellier and published by Ravensburger Spieleverlag. The object of the game is to move one's pieces off the board before the other players. The game board is hexagonal in shape; it has a large image of a Chinese dragon in the middle, and a Chinese character in each board position. If you have two players, one player is given ten white game pieces while the other player gets ten black game pieces. The pieces are stacked in the middle of the board as one"
"is still very much played in central Europe and Spain with Italian-suited cards, under the name of ""goffo"" or ""bambara"", remaining the major native vying game of Italy. Alessandro Striggio's madrigal dramatizing a party of the game ""II gioco di primiera"" was published in 1569. This old game of cards was called ' in France, ' in Spain, and ' in Italy. All names derived from the Latin ', 'first'. In English literature, besides the occasional use of the foreign names, the game is designated primero (and also prima-vista, a probable variant), with the usual corruptions in spelling of the"
"on 24 October 2010 during SPIEL but in an alternate location in Herne, Germany. Ralph Querfurth has been the World Champion in four editions. Carcassonne (board game) Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games (until 2012) and Z-Man Games (currently) in English. It received the Spiel des Jahres and the Deutscher Spiele Preis awards in 2001. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls. The game"
"Vinci (board game) Vinci is a board game designed by Philippe Keyaerts. It resembles a diceless variant of ""Risk"" with variable special abilities and an original decline mechanic, and is also similar in some ways to ""History of the World"". The game's name, pronounced ""Vinchi"", means ""to be conquered"" in Latin. In 2009, the game's mechanics were re-implemented with several changes and a fantasy-oriented theme as ""Small World"", also credited to Keyaerts, and published by Days of Wonder. Each player begins the game by selecting one of several available civilizations. Each civilization is defined by two tokens, each offering a"
"Italian Game The Italian Game is a family of chess openings beginning with the moves: The opening is defined by the of the white bishop to c4 (the so-called """"), where it attacks Black's vulnerable f7-square. It is part of the large family of Open Games or Double King's Pawn Games. The Italian Game is one of the oldest recorded chess openings; it occurs in the Göttingen manuscript and was developed by players such as Damiano and Polerio in the 16th century, and later by Greco in 1620, who gave the game its main line. It has been extensively analysed"
"person to start the game can use their initial turn to move two pieces at once. Then the next player moves one piece, according to the main rules. Usually if there are only two players in the game the regular rules apply. Lotus (board game) Lotus is a board game for two to four players developed by Dominique Tellier and published by Ravensburger Spieleverlag. The object of the game is to move one's pieces off the board before the other players. The game board is hexagonal in shape; it has a large image of a Chinese dragon in the middle,"
"Titanic: The Board Game Titanic: The Board Game is a board-game designed by Sandra Gentry and Valen Brost and published by Universal Games in America and was available via license by Universal Games, in Great Britain and in France between 1998 and 1999. The game revolves around the sinking of RMS ""Titanic"". An updated version, ""Titanic: The Board Game Centennial Edition"", will be released by Universal Games, and marketed by Universal Toys, Inc., NV, and the John Hansen Co., in fall of 2012. The six players take the role of six fictitious passengers aboard the RMS ""Titanic"": Moving around the"
"Sexy Slang Sexy Slang is a board game made by Icebreaker Entertainment, previously known as PFF Entertainment, in New York City. Sexy Slang is an adult party game similar to Pictionary and Charades, but with risque clue words. The game is played with four or more people, who divide into two teams that race to draw the same naughty terms or act the same sexy charades terms at the same time. Launched in 2008 by Christi Scofield and Ted Scofield, Sexy Slang, also known as PervArtistry, started as a tested concept at dinner parties and vacation houses, and later spread"
"referee to decide battles between pieces without revealing their identities. An expanded version of the Land Battle Chess game also exists, adding naval and aircraft pieces and is known as Sea-Land-Air Battle Chess (Hai Lu Kong Zhan Qi).[3] A capture the flag game called ""Stratego"" and loosely based on the board game is played at summer camps. In this game, two teams of thirty to sixty players are assigned ranks by distribution of coloured objects such as pinnies or glowsticks, the colours representing rank, not team. Players can tag and capture lower-ranked opponents, with the exception that the lowest rank"
"Alea (Greek soldier) According to the ""Etymologiae"" by Isidore of Seville, Alea was a Greek soldier of the Trojan War who invented the dicing game tabula. French sociologist Roger Caillois uses the term ""alea"" to designate those games which rely on luck rather than skill in ""Man, Play and Games"". While Caillois notes the term is the Roman word for games of chance, Robert C. Bell suggests that the Greek game tabula, a precursor to modern backgammon, became more commonly known as ""alea"" ""towards the end of the sixth century"". However, games historian H. J. R. Murray asserts the shift"
"It comes from the Latin word , which means a counter or gaming piece."" Three men's morris Three men's morris is an abstract strategy game played on a three by three board (counting lines) that is similar to tic-tac-toe. It is also related to six men's morris and nine men's morris. Each player has three pieces. The winner is the first player to align their three pieces on a line drawn on the board. There are 3 horizontal lines, 3 vertical lines and 2 diagonal lines. The board is empty to begin the game, and players take turns placing their"
"Game piece (hieroglyph) The ancient Egyptian Game piece (hieroglyph), also a Token, or the general term for any ""gaming-gambling"" piece, Draughtsman is an ancient hieroglyph. Gaming pieces were certainly required in predynastic times, as the cultural creation of games and entertainment has a long history in most cultures. An ivory-piece lion is known from the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt; the set contains three lions, and three dog tokens of ivory. The ""Senet game"" is recorded as the oldest boardgame in history, for which tokens are used. The basic word for 'Game piece' or 'draughtsman' is """"ab"""". By implication, people"