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history of the board game reaches far back into antiquity.
In fact, the Romans played a wide variety of board games,
including Roman Chess (known as "Latrunculi"), Roman
Checkers (called "Calculi"), Tic-Tac-Toe ("Terni
Lapilli"), Roman Backgammon ("Tabula"), and
others. According to historians, the Romans used stones
for counting before the abacus was introduced. Hence, the
word 'calculate.' Quinto® is
most like the Roman game, "Calculi" or "Five
in a Row." The traditional rules of Calculi include
lining up five stones in a row horizontally or diagonally.
While some archeologists have referred to Calculi as Roman
Checkers because of the similarity of the board and pieces,
few boards were checkered in black and white—many were
just made of lines. Some stones and board fragments
have been found as well as large bags of stones, which include
roundels, the old Roman version of gambling chips. |
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