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Arcane Lexicon of Ancient Gaming
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- 1. Old Norse 'king's table' game predating chess with asymmetric play
- 2. Old Slavic game piece name, often a wooden disk or token
- 5. Device or marker used in prehistoric board game arrangements
- 9. Double deployment in Roman checkers, a term for tactical overlap
- 11. Ancient Egyptian board game term derived from hieroglyphic 'nub'
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- 3. Obscure Roman game site echoing a dice-thrower's home
- 4. A German medieval term for a score twenty-piece in dice games
- 6. Seed-sowing game whose name means 'to move' or 'to harvest'
- 7. Medieval Iberian board game linked to the Arabic word for nineteen
- 8. The ancient Persian warriors that populate the royal battleground
- 10. Knucklebone dice used as primitive randomizers in ancient games
- 12. Finnish ancient board game with moves resembling a 'little stone'
- 13. Roman ancestor of backgammon, literally 'table' in Latin
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