Is this "the most Roman game" of them all?

This game embodies much of Roman culture - the "vulgar" bits (from Latin vulgus: ‘common people’) to the "intellectual" challenges (from Latin intellectualis: 'relating to the understanding'). Dice (of course), racing around a track, hindering your opponent - popular stuff in the colosseum. The cleaver aspect of using words on many of the game boards tossed in some degree of literacy and poetry (more often vulgar than intellectual).
It's an outstanding example of a prominent game in the evolution of the entire family of tables games, and lasted in some form for about 600 years throughout the Empire.
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[@antoniozumpano826]

This is an amazing running game! What I liked most about that game is its versatility: we can create dozens of rules with different paths. Congratulations on the presentation of such a historic game.

[@user-bz6vt9nf5h]

What will the ancient Romans think of next...

[@DavidMMcCord]

😄

[@crystallight2]

I’ve played this. Well a variation of it. The one I played the stacked pieces could be captured by an opponent stack that had a greater number. Pieces could bear off as long as all your pieces where on the board, and stacks could not be bear off as the stack, each piece of the stack had to be removed by itself. Also had to be bear off by exact count. I wonder how much this and UR influenced backgammon.

[@ICAdventurersClub]

good stuff as always!!

[@renetancies]

I’ve played this in ancient games app on playstore

[@adamh5153]

Twelve, an old germanic word for twelve... Did I hear that right?

[@NewVentureGames]

Yes you did. They pronounce a bit differently, but it's pretty much the same word.