What do you think about when someone mentions "Old Games"? Do you think about your childhood and those games that you used to play with your family and friends, games such as "hide or seek" or tag? Other people might recall some special types of sports games or tournaments that were played in years gone by. In this particular article we will be focusing on the classic card and board games, and providing a bit of background history of these games...
Board games are those games that are played on some sort of a game board (naturally enough). The first known board game was the Egyptian game of Senet, which existed around 3500 B.C. As the years passed, European cultures started to embrace the concept of the board game as well. In this modern era of marketing and advertising, there are a number of various board games that families and friends can play. The latest version of these classic board games is "online play", in which you can play the same game, but via the internet, with someone on the other end of the world.
Let's examine the world of strategy board games. Strategy games are those games that require a considerable amount of strategy in order to win. Examples of strategy board games are chess and checkers. Luck board games are those games that just require a good "roll of the dice", and almost no strategy. Games such as Chutes and Ladders and Sorry fall into this category. Many games, such as Monopoly and Risk, require a bit of luck and strategy. Keep in mind, if you don't have a good strategy, any sort of luck you may have will go completely out the window.
Classic board games have been around for a long, long time... They have stood the test of time, and although they were popular generations ago, they are still popular today. Two examples of these games are Battleship and Risk. Minor adjustments to these games have been made over the years (such as the introduction of online play), but the games till have the same basic strategy and game play that they started out with years ago. Other examples of these types of games are Monopoly, Clue, Life, and Sorry.
People have been playing "old games" with cards for centuries. While the exact origin of a deck of cards is not known, it is very likely that they were invented by the Chinese around the time that they started shuffling paper money around. This would be between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D.
Around the 15th century we see the format of the English playing cards appear on the scene. We have documentation that in an Act of Parliament, domestic card makers were complaining about the importation of foreign cards into the market, thereby cutting their profits.
Playing cards were originally created and painted by hand, which was a very time and labor intensive process. As a result, they were very expensive to purchase and own, and this limited the number of people who could play card games as a result. Popular old card games include: hearts, bridge, poker, and rummy. - 31483
Board games are those games that are played on some sort of a game board (naturally enough). The first known board game was the Egyptian game of Senet, which existed around 3500 B.C. As the years passed, European cultures started to embrace the concept of the board game as well. In this modern era of marketing and advertising, there are a number of various board games that families and friends can play. The latest version of these classic board games is "online play", in which you can play the same game, but via the internet, with someone on the other end of the world.
Let's examine the world of strategy board games. Strategy games are those games that require a considerable amount of strategy in order to win. Examples of strategy board games are chess and checkers. Luck board games are those games that just require a good "roll of the dice", and almost no strategy. Games such as Chutes and Ladders and Sorry fall into this category. Many games, such as Monopoly and Risk, require a bit of luck and strategy. Keep in mind, if you don't have a good strategy, any sort of luck you may have will go completely out the window.
Classic board games have been around for a long, long time... They have stood the test of time, and although they were popular generations ago, they are still popular today. Two examples of these games are Battleship and Risk. Minor adjustments to these games have been made over the years (such as the introduction of online play), but the games till have the same basic strategy and game play that they started out with years ago. Other examples of these types of games are Monopoly, Clue, Life, and Sorry.
People have been playing "old games" with cards for centuries. While the exact origin of a deck of cards is not known, it is very likely that they were invented by the Chinese around the time that they started shuffling paper money around. This would be between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D.
Around the 15th century we see the format of the English playing cards appear on the scene. We have documentation that in an Act of Parliament, domestic card makers were complaining about the importation of foreign cards into the market, thereby cutting their profits.
Playing cards were originally created and painted by hand, which was a very time and labor intensive process. As a result, they were very expensive to purchase and own, and this limited the number of people who could play card games as a result. Popular old card games include: hearts, bridge, poker, and rummy. - 31483
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