"Old Games" is a concept that brings up different things to different people. What do you think when you hear these words? Some people think of special old tournaments or sports games that were played in years gone by. Others think of those childhood games that they used to play with their friends and family members...games like tag or "hide and seek". In this article we will be zeroing in on the classic board and card games that were popular years ago (and are still played today). We will be providing a history to these games, and some trivia about them as well.
Board games are those games that are played on some sort of a game board (naturally enough). The first known board game was the Egyptian game of Senet, which existed around 3500 B.C. As the years passed, European cultures started to embrace the concept of the board game as well. In this modern era of marketing and advertising, there are a number of various board games that families and friends can play. The latest version of these classic board games is "online play", in which you can play the same game, but via the internet, with someone on the other end of the world.
Strategy board games are a type of board games that that require a considerable amount of strategy to win. Games such as checkers and chess fall into this category. Luck board games such as Sorry, and Chutes and Ladders, require only a good "roll of the dice", and almost no strategy. Most games, such as Monopoly or Risk, require a bit of both. Having said this, if you never get a break with that "roll of the dice", if you need to incorporate strategy, any good strategy you may have goes out the window.
Classic board games are those games that have stood the test of time, and are just as popular today as they were years ago. Risk and Battleship are two examples of such games. Other examples are: Life, Clue, Monopoly and Sorry. Minor adjustments may have been made to these games over the years (such as the introduction of online game play), but the basic rules and strategy and game play remains the same.
Old games that revolve around a pack of cards have been around for years and years. It is not known when the first deck of cards appeared on the scene, but it's very likely that the Chinese invented them between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D. It was around this time that they started to shuffle money around.
English playing cards started to appear around the 15th century. Act of Parliament Documentation of around this time period tells us that domestic card makers were complaining about the importation of foreign cards. Apparently these imports were cutting into their profits.
Playing cards were originally created and painted by hand, which was a very time and labor intensive process. As a result, they were very expensive to purchase and own, and this limited the number of people who could play card games as a result. Popular old card games include: hearts, bridge, poker, and rummy.
Board games are those games that are played on some sort of a game board (naturally enough). The first known board game was the Egyptian game of Senet, which existed around 3500 B.C. As the years passed, European cultures started to embrace the concept of the board game as well. In this modern era of marketing and advertising, there are a number of various board games that families and friends can play. The latest version of these classic board games is "online play", in which you can play the same game, but via the internet, with someone on the other end of the world.
Strategy board games are a type of board games that that require a considerable amount of strategy to win. Games such as checkers and chess fall into this category. Luck board games such as Sorry, and Chutes and Ladders, require only a good "roll of the dice", and almost no strategy. Most games, such as Monopoly or Risk, require a bit of both. Having said this, if you never get a break with that "roll of the dice", if you need to incorporate strategy, any good strategy you may have goes out the window.
Classic board games are those games that have stood the test of time, and are just as popular today as they were years ago. Risk and Battleship are two examples of such games. Other examples are: Life, Clue, Monopoly and Sorry. Minor adjustments may have been made to these games over the years (such as the introduction of online game play), but the basic rules and strategy and game play remains the same.
Old games that revolve around a pack of cards have been around for years and years. It is not known when the first deck of cards appeared on the scene, but it's very likely that the Chinese invented them between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D. It was around this time that they started to shuffle money around.
English playing cards started to appear around the 15th century. Act of Parliament Documentation of around this time period tells us that domestic card makers were complaining about the importation of foreign cards. Apparently these imports were cutting into their profits.
Playing cards were originally created and painted by hand, which was a very time and labor intensive process. As a result, they were very expensive to purchase and own, and this limited the number of people who could play card games as a result. Popular old card games include: hearts, bridge, poker, and rummy.
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