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Esoteric Lexicon of Ancient Playcraft
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  • 1. Mythic or regional variant of games involving stone placements
  • 2. Old Germanic term implying 'star table,' used for tafl games
  • 3. Roman predecessor of backgammon, named after a 'table'
  • 7. Old Norse king's table game of asymmetric struggle
  • 10. Crafty wordplay on 'catan', a fur trade game origin
  • 12. French medieval term describing smooth sliding moves
  • 13. Hypothetical term blending 'zatrikion', Greek for chess
  • 14. Rare term referencing a specific strategic move in shatranj
  • 17. Latin for 'game', often denoting Roman board recreation
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  • 4. Unorthodox name for a race game involving chasing pieces
  • 5. Roman board game translating to 'little thieves' or 'bandits'
  • 6. Composite term signifying mesh-like grid used in ancient play
  • 8. Description of the alternating capture mechanism in ancient games
  • 9. Refers to a specialized knight move variant in historic chess
  • 11. Plural of ancient sowing games played with pits and seeds
  • 15. General term for African and Asian seed-sowing board games
  • 16. Indian cross-and-circle game, often called the 'national game'
  • 18. Swedish tafl game where king escapes enemy blockade
  • 19. Obsolete term for a strategic piece in early chess variants
  • 20. Egyptian race game whose name means 'passing'
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