The Royal Game of Ur is a two-player strategy race board game of the tables family that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third millennium BC. The game was popular across the Middle East among people of all social strata, and boards for playing it have been found at locations as far away from Mesopotamia as Crete and Sri Lanka. One board, held by the British Museum, is dated to c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC, making it one of the oldest game boards in the world.
The video that Tom Scott did about this game was FANTASTIC
Came in to post the same link. Such a good video.
That is amazing. How tf did they make me want to watch that entire thing.
Great video!
Play it online here. It’s fun but pretty simple by modern board game standards. https://royalur.net/
It’s such a well-done implementation of the game. Beautiful website.
I play it often!
And here I thought this was just some Rimworld lore thing
It’s a lot like Backgammon.
