Ancient Board Game Pieces Puzzle Archaeologists

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Nerf Dog, he is OP! Buff pig!

LOL, you suck, only n00bs use the pyramid double token combo!

 

[lacktheknack]

Decayed sticks and white-and-black discs?

Sounds like Senet (note: my only experience with Senet is from Tomb Raider IV).

 

[Ukomba]

I don't suppose they found a painting of the rules along with it? Those 5000 year old D4's look better than some of my 2 year old ones.

 

[TheProfessor234]

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Thanks for the history lesson, that is pretty cool. Crazy how wanting to be entertained has been a need for humans since forever.

 

[1337mokro]

D&D back when people still put people in D's and thought the other Ds exists.

It's always interesting to see that people for the longest time had no fucking idea to do with their free time or just wanted to relax. The age old saying is true. One a man gets rich enough, he gets bored and wants to play games.

 

[Muspelheim]

Nice find, there. I wonder what future archeologists would make of our present time games. Imagine them digging up a set of chipped old Warhammer figures from some irradiated ruins somewhere.

Decayed sticks and white-and-black discs?

Sounds like Senet (note: my only experience with Senet is from Tomb Raider IV).

I had an educational Ancient Egypt-themed point-and-click adventure game when I was a kid.

It was a very good game, except the bit where you have to play against and beat some fat old bastard at Senet before he'll give up the bloody stone blocks you need to get building. I still twitch a bit when I hear something about Senet.

If I ever have to do that bit again, I'll find that man's mummy in some museum and shove his Senet-set right up his bum.

 

[lacktheknack]

Nice find, there. I wonder what future archeologists would make of our present time games. Imagine them digging up a set of chipped old Warhammer figures from some irradiated ruins somewhere.

Decayed sticks and white-and-black discs?

Sounds like Senet (note: my only experience with Senet is from Tomb Raider IV).

I had an educational Ancient Egypt-themed point-and-click adventure game when I was a kid.

It was a very good game, except the bit where you have to play against and beat some fat old bastard at Senet before he'll give up the bloody stone blocks you need to get building. I still twitch a bit when I hear something about Senet.

If I ever have to do that bit again, I'll find that man's mummy in some museum and shove his Senet-set right up his bum.

Tomb Raider's take was that you played a huge game of Senet against the tomb's spirits. If you won, you got the easy route through the rest of the level. If you lost, you got the hard route (guess which route had all the secrets).

 

[Reeve]

This further solidifies my theory that all religious texts are actually ancient DM guides and player handbooks. Although judging by that set everyone played low level spell casters or halfling rogues what with all the D4s.

Thanks for sharing that theory. It is now my headcanon.

Some of those pieces remind me of the stones that, in Bionicle, the Matoran used to tell stories.

 

[Strazdas]

Could it be pieces for marknig enemy troops perhaps? you know akin to the wooden pieces to be put on the map often used during middle ages. you know something liek this but much more primitive: