Hounds & Jackals - the favorite board game of the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs!
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2023
- The historic game of Hounds and Jackals - also known by several other names - was rediscovered by British archeologists in the late 19th century.
The game is at least 3500 years old, and several variants have been found over the past century.
Unfortunately, the original rules to the game are unknown, but game historians have devised several possible ways to play the game. I present two of those in this video.
In either case, it's a race game, and the first set of rules also includes elimination of the opponent's pieces. The NewVenture set includes stick dice and enough pegs to play these and some other variants. You can discover them easily with a little research.
This is part of our "Games of Ancient Egypt" set which includes four other ancient games from the area. You can get your copy of the game here:
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I've always wanted to know how this game was played ever since seeing it in the Ten Commandments as a kid
I was going to say that.
It was Brynner v Heston I think 🤔?
"I am told, my tiger lily, they're wagering against me, two golden debens to one." -- Sir Cedric Hardwicke vs. Anne Baxter
Gracias, mi juego favorito, gran video, muy bien explicado
Thank you for explaining the game .I have seen photos and was curious about it
certainly is a mystery but one worth trying considering the games out there today. This is worth trying .
Thanks
Version Two is pretty good.
That is the most known "common" version playing the game
997th 😁👍
I'm going watch it 3 more times....
Bloody counter doesn’t work.
Thanks for the great overview. I had not heard the version from the Russian game researcher in 2017. I missed his name however (Dmitri ?Sterio?). It is an interesting take on play. The most common I have seen is based version 2; however I am super curious of game play on version 1 and how that developed. Any chance you can help me with name spelling so I can check out the original notes etc.? I love doing game research. Thanks for the video.
Version 1 is based on rules developed by Dmitriy
Skiryuk, Russian game historian in 2017, with some deviations
suggested by Daniel Thibault, Canadian computer scientist,
author and game researcher.
New video!!!
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Question, do you have to land on e or g to get pegs on the board or could you put them on there without touching e or g?
In version one, when a peg ends its movement on or passes E or G, a new peg is placed at "A". In version two, when a peg ends its movement on E or G, the player gets an extra turn.
Thanks
ahhhh, so this is where SORRY! got their game idea haha
This, and Pachisi, and the use of playing cards as dice (which goes back to the 16th century).
Not true! We all know, Yu-Gi-Oh! is ancient game of the pharaohs!
I wonder which Egyptian god created it.
Shadow games seemed to be a lot tamer back then
Yu-gi-oh is Ancient Egyptian for "fetch",
so it's probably the Jackal-headed guy.
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