The history of board games goes back in time. Born long before today, they have gone through a painstaking path to restoration, recognition and recognition.
No one doubts the influence on this person of this type of rest. Mathematical abilities, spatial thinking, the ability to work in a team develop, a person learns to concentrate, develops strategic thinking.
Healthy excitement, playing with intellectual muscles makes a person more confident in the future. In addition, makes friends and teaches patience.
10. Mill
Logic board game. The set includes 18 chips: 9 white and 9 black plus a board. The first boards for this game were stone. It was found that the game was widespread in various countries. In Ireland, Sri Lanka. India.
The goal of the game is to build a line of three chips in a row. As soon as this condition is met, the "mill" is built, the player can remove any opponent chip from the field. The game is considered finished when one of the players has two chips left and it will be impossible to build a “mill”.
The convenience of this game is that you can play it everywhere. On the street - to play with pebbles, away - with buttons, and the playing field is easy to draw on paper.
9. Chaupar
Traditional indian family game. It uses chips - two colors, dice and a playing field, on which the temple and the roads leading to it are located in the center.
The goal of the game is to get around the chips as quickly as possible along the outer edge of the board and bring them into the temple. The number of players from 2 to 4. This game is still played in some tribes of America, in India.
8. Mancala
A game played around the world. Designed for two players. The second name is the game of grains. The fact that you need available tools for the game, a large number of options and their distribution around the world speaks in favor of the ancient roots of the game.
For “mankala” you need a small piece of land and a handful of seeds or small pebbles. Holes are made on the ground, which are stoned in turn. The goal of the game is to “capture” as many enemy stones as possible.
7. Mansion of happiness
The birthplace of this wonderful game is Great Britain. The game was created on the basis of Christian morality. The goal is to instill virtues in a true Christian. At the start, players build chips.
Dice show how many moves you can advance on the playing field. If the chip fell on a square with a vice, then the move was moved back. They invested in the hearts of the younger generations, and gold truths accumulated there, which in difficult times allowed them to survive.
6. Chaturanga
Or space chess, which the ancient Indians instilled in the world. Chess lovers venerate this game as an ancestor. Her versions are found in Thailand, Korea, and India. According to different versions, the game can be played pair by pair. Or each for himself.
As with all board games, there is a board. On its four sides there are teams of figures representing the elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire. A game of incredible complexity.
Each figure has its own task, its own moves. The game is considered to be won when one is first: 1. checkmate one of the opponents 2. declare irresistible checkers to two kings at once 3. beat the king with some unprotected opponent’s piece.
5. Royal Hurray
The name of the game is connected with the city of the same name that once existed on the territory of modern Iraq, where the game was found in 1920. The legacy of the Sumerians.
A game that is considered the forerunner of modern backgammon. Designed for 2 players. Players take turns throwing dice and moving their chips towards the target. This game is currently a valuable exhibit of the British Museum in London.
4. Senet in translation - the passage
The oldest game in the world. Sets of this game were found in burial chambers and often not in one set. At first it was secular entertainment, and after death it facilitated the transition to the kingdom of the dead.
But this game also had a sacred meaning. It symbolizes the cycle of deaths, rebirths on the way from the earthly to the divine. On the squares were marked various symbols representing the gods, questions of life after death. A gambling game that allows you to make money with playing for fun, and just fortune telling.
3. Vaikuntapaali - between good and evil
The invention of this board game dates back to the 16th century. This is a kind of tool for instilling the laws of morality.
The goal of the players is to move up the stairs, but not just like that, but by doing good deeds and cultivating oneself along the way. The image of snakes, a symbol of misfortune, bringing spiritual suffering to the sinner. Colorful and original game.
2. Landlord's game
The birth of this game is associated with the name of actress Lizzie Maggie. The set consisted of a board, along the edges of which were placed the names of what the player could buy.
The board game included a prison, two enterprises, four railways. Getting into the corner cages was profitable, as it provided the players with $ 100.
1. Tough
The early Middle Ages, the harsh and merciless sailors of the Wigings, having appeared in Europe, brought this game on the boards. Everyone had to be able to play it. As well as wielding a sword.
A game for two players. Batch time from 30 minutes. The level of passage is difficult. Before the players, a 7 * 7 or 19 * 19 board was laid out. Often inside there was a hole in the middle of each cell, for ease of transportation and storage.
The kit included a cube that showed how far the figures could be moved. Royal chip - King and chips, which could be made of amber, horns, bones and had white and black color.
Black went first. White's goal is to save the King and lead him from the center of the board to the edge. Black's goal is to capture the King from four sides. The rules of the game have not survived to this day. They had to be restored according to legends and fairy tales.