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Cryptic Codices of Ancient Gaming Lore
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Loyalty term critical in rounds of contested strategies
  • 3. Scratched-over manuscripts preserving faded gaming codes
  • 4. Latin root hinting at chance’s madness in setting ancient rules
  • 5. Overweening pride that often overturns ancient gaming rulings
  • 6. Divination via ancient games, a prognosticator’s craft
  • 8. Ancient Greek term touching friendship, crucial in team games
  • 10. Five-pointed figure, symbol sometimes used in board designs
  • 13. Obscure inscriptions decoding secret play regulations
  • 15. Egyptian race game thought to navigate spiritual undercurrents
Down
  • 2. Roman board precursor whose rolls fund fate’s decree
  • 7. Skillful control in gameplay, akin to sleight of hand
  • 9. Stringed instrument’s namesake lending melody or metaphor in play
  • 11. Unequal balance altering fairness within archaic competition
  • 12. To abruptly abandon a dice game or chess piece’s posture
  • 14. Pictorial signs encrypting archaic gaming mandates
  • 16. Sacrificial opening move, ancient yet strategic in nature
  • 17. To imitate or replicate early gaming strategies with precision

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