Games and Pastimes
Period games and pastimes includes boardgames, dice, card games, and pastimes such as darts.
Format 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, 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.
Fox & Geese, Lamgs and Tigers - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Misc, Game of the Goose [Florance 1587, England 1597CE] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
Morris, Nine Men's Morris - The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
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.
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, Tawl-Bwrdd [Welsh 914-943CE] The Complete Anachronist #4 Indoor Games or how to while away a siege.
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.
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Card Games
Period Pastimes
AnTir Specific Pastimes
Darts, AnTir rules
Norse Stickball (banned)
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