Royal game of Ur general

>>53336074
example of play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I

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the word is "addictive". and the only people i know who use the word "addicting" are dutch.

ben jij 'n nederlander, OP?

>>53337314
Not OP but addicting is a word in English.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/addicting

>>53337669
>non-standard outside the US

ie. not a word.

>>53337314
This.
'Addicting' is something one does, 'addictive' is a property. e.g.; "I am addicting my girlfriend to heroine so I can pimp her out for money. Fortunately the heroine is very addictive, which makes the process easier".

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>>53337750
>'Addicting' is something one does, 'addictive' is a property. e.g.; "I am addicting my girlfriend to heroine so I can pimp her out for money. Fortunately the heroine is very addictive, which makes the process easier".

I hope you're an English teacher because your examples are on point.

>>53337750
So OP used it incorrectly.
The correct word, as they said, is "addictive".

>>53337875
In normal sane English you would say "getting my girlfriend addicted to heroin" instead of whatever unintelligible shit >>53337750 thinks it is.

So I fucking this game, what version does everyone play? I know the common interpretation of it is the same in the video posted but there's another popular interpretation I found that made some sense.

Basically instead of making turns once you hit the wall on the short end, both players turn left to the star/safe/double point at the far short end, then goes up to the right, down towards the final star.

It makes it so that no spot is safe beyond the initial 4 squares, and a cool detail is if you roll 4, 4 times in a row you can get a piece from start to finish in one go.

>>53336074
Poor OP makes a thread about a neat old game and the only thing talked about is grammar

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>>53337966
To make it easier to visualize.

>>53337971
Fuck please no, I'm in fucking love with old abstract board games and play Ur on a daily basis. My heart skipped a beat when I saw this thread on the catalog.

>>53337966
clear as mud

>>53336074
So you could say that this game is...ur-backgammon : D

>>53337966
I want to play it historically, but the only person I know who is interested in ancient Sumerian board games is my priest and they're busy fellows.

>>53338296
I don't know how to play backgammon though

>>53337875
It's actually still correct, as long as you're referring to a thing you can use addicting. People just don't use it like that so it sounds wrong.

>>53337966
Considering there's only two more safe points per player in the standard variation compared to this it seems like a fairly pointless wrinkle.

To escape this Semantic piffle some Ur questions.

Do you need to roll the exact number to get the pieces off the board or can you "waste" some points to move a piece off the end?

Do you have to make a move or can you pass, either before your roll or after?

Boards and counters are easy to make, how about the dice? Guess you could just hack some D4s. Is there anything else small but tetrahedral that can be bought for cheap?

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>>53336074
Great fun game. I made my own last year.

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>>53339757
It's made from a small cigar box.

>>53337712
US english is the only correct english. Why do you think everyone sings with an american accent?

>>53337712
Reminder that Sir Humphry Davy coined the word "aluminum."
"Aluminium" is only a word because some random Brit editor didn't know how many elements end in "-um."

>>53339648
>Do you need to roll the exact number to get the pieces off the board or can you "waste" some points to move a piece off the end?

Have to roll exact if you you let people use what ever it fucks up the race at the end
>Do you have to make a move or can you pass, either before your roll or after?
Have to move, cannot pass.


The correct version is supposed to only have 3 dices.

>>53339648
We play where you need the exact roll to get off. It adds to the strategic use of throws.

We also play so you must move. It forces you to move into bad positions sometimes.

You can use d4s if you say 3 & 4 is a pip and 1 & 2 isn't. I made dice using some Miliput.

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>>53336074
>>53336616
This looks awesome.

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>>53337314
>>53337669
>>53337712
>>53337750
>>53337875
>>53337902
>>53339823

The Royal Game of Ur is the Warhammer to Backgammon's Age of Sigmar.

Fucking GW Romans killing off a game for 2000 years.

>>53339625
Actually there's only one safe zone in the British muesem version given that the first two are on your safe row, and the last two are on your ending safe rows.

Though fuck the versions where you come back by flipping your pieces.

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HOL UP

>>53336074
The more I look at the board, the more I think that the version of the rules as shown in >>53336616
is really the most simplistic version.
Aside from the rosette tiles there are a bunch of other patterns that seem to indicate they have some distinct effect on the playing pieces, but are ignored.
Especially the unique one on the left end of the middle row that seems to represent the board.

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Pic related is the version of the game that I've had for years and years. It only has three dice in it, and a bunch of complicated rules for movement and what all of the spaces do—but it's apparently all a bunch of made-up shit, not historically accurate.

I tried playing the British Museum version not long ago, when I found out about that video, and honestly it's more fun. Fast-paced and intense, like backgammon on crack (crackgammon?). I'm going with the simple four-dice Museum rules in the future.

>>53336616
Just.. just thank you very much, anon

Odd that the 5 dots on the pieces match a limited number of squares on the board. I wonder if that's of any significance?