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Silk Road's Ancient Strategic Games
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  • 1. Dice game used along the Silk Road with ritualistic elements
  • 2. Ancient Chinese game involving strategic movement of pieces on a board
  • 5. Term related to Alquerque, ancient ancestor of checkers
  • 8. Indian board with 64 squares used in ancient games like chaturanga
  • 9. Ancient Scandinavian game of Viking origin involving asymmetrical forces
  • 11. Old Norse board game emblematic of Viking era strategic play
  • 13. Japanese variant of chess with piece promotion
  • 14. Ancient game involving dice and racing pieces on a board
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  • 3. Game believed to have evolved from Chaturanga in ancient India
  • 4. An ancient Indian cross and circle game played on a board
  • 6. Also called Congkak, a traditional mancala game from Southeast Asia
  • 7. board game of territorial conquest originating in China
  • 10. Indian cross and circle race game, predecessor to modern Ludo
  • 12. Seed-sowing game popular along trade routes of Africa and Asia
  • 15. Korean traditional board game resembling dice and strategy
  • 16. A traditional Central Asian race-type board game
  • 17. Also known as Chinese chess, a strategic two-player game
  • 18. Mongolian version of a race and capture board game from the Silk Road

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