Royal Game of Ur

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<figure class="media"><oembed url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IE4RUTCkEE"></oembed></figure><p>Remixed from Robert Ihnatisin's board on Thingiverse: <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2293991">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2293991</a></p><p>The Royal Game Of Ur is one of the oldest games to be discovered. Predated only by the Egyptian game of Senet, the board found in 1920 is estimated to be about 5000 years old.</p><p>A video of Irving Finkle and Tom Scott playing this game mentioned that they were playing a simplified rules. So while searching for advanced the rules for the game, and trying to figure out if the different spaces has any meaning, I found a scan from the British Museum's rules that indicates for the advanced game that you need 5 tokens with values 1-5 and some sort of currency. So this version has pawns that have values on the bottom side of 1-5 and I threw in a diamond tokens for currency. These elements are optional, but will allow for extended play and there's plenty of room in the board for 40 or so diamond tokens.</p>