08-17-2019, 07:07 PM
(08-16-2019, 09:00 AM)BIAD Wrote:Quote:'...What I want to know now is has the British Museum started making reproductions of the ancient Royal Game of Ur again, or not?
I want one... I NEED one! ... and I have another birthday coming up, hopefully... Irving may have rediscovered the rules, but I can still
smoke him on it, since it is a game of strategy...'
Sadly, I believe this future-telling pastime may be difficult to obtain if it's not an App on a cellphone!
(Not that I know anything about the game!)
I researched it. The game is available in at least two different incarnations electronically on the internet, and a physical replica game board is available on Amazon at prices ranging from 39.99 to a whopping 147.00.
Or I could just get out my miterbox saw and some children's blocks and make my own...
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’