Games and Pastimes
This page is intended to help find period games you are interested in.
Period games and pastimes includes boardgames, dice, card games, and pastimes such as darts.
Format for games listed is: Modern Game family. Game name [culture, time played] referances
Boardgames
Backgammon, Tables - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Anglo-French Long Assize [~1300CE] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Anglo-French Short Assize [~1150 - 1450CE] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Arabic 'Decimal' Chesses The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Byzantine - The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Chess, Chaluranga [India] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Courtier Game,The - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Lombard Assize [North Italian ~1275CD] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Mongol - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Renaissance Chesses - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Shatraj [Islamic, 600's - 1400's CE] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Chinese "Siang K'i" - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Chess, Shogi [Japan 1200CE - ] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Checkers, Alquerque [1400BCE] - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Checkers, Draughts - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Fox & Geese, Cows and Leopards - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Fox & Geese, Fox and Geese - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
- The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Fox & Geese, Lamgs and Tigers - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Misc, Brandubh - The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Misc, Game of the Goose [Florance 1587, England 1597CE] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
- The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Misc, Gluckshaus - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
- The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Misc, Nyout (Horses) [Korean] - The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Misc, Shut the Box - The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Morris, Nine Men's Morris (Merels) - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
- The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Parchisi, Chausar [Persia] - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Parchisi, Parchisi [Persia] - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Tablero, Tablero de Jesus - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
- The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Tafl, Hnefatafl - Backgammon, Tables - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Tafl, Tablut - Backgammon, Tables - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Tafl, Tafl - The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Tafl, Tawl-Bwrdd [Welsh 914-943CE] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Wari, Wari - The Shire of Dregate most commonly played games.
Dice Games
Three Throws - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
In and Inn - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Hazard - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Card Games
Piquet - Tarot - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Primero - Tarot - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Ruff-And-Honors and Whisk - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Tarot - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Trappola - Tarot - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Triomphe [~1550] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Period Pastimes
AnTir Specific Pastimes
Clench-a-Wench (banned)
Referances
Games at Shire of Dregate, Including books
Games classes may be had at Ithra
Index of games articles in Tournaments Illuminated
The Compleat Anachronist #4 Indoor Games, or, How to While Away a Siege - Historical forms of chess, other board games, dice, and cards
The Compleat Anachronist #71 Period Pastimes - Being a timeline of games with instructions and commentary on selected games played in medieval Europe
The Compleat Anachronist #78 Non-European Games: Contemporary with the Medieval Period of European Civilization