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My guess is it was played on paper. Pens were the dominant writing utensil. Hard to remove and repeat on the same surface. Even with pencils, erasing leaves a
by gibolt 7y ago
My guess is it was played on paper. Pens were the dominant writing utensil. Hard to remove and repeat on the same surface.
Even with pencils, erasing leaves a mark and doing so repeatedly will either become too hard to tell or rip through the paper.
- simonh 7y agoThe Romans didn't have paper, and pencils were invented in the 16th Century. I think they had chalk, but they almost certainly would have used playing pieces on a board.
- gibolt 7y agoMy response is why the modern one is not the Roman variant
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- thaumasiotes 7y agoStandard Roman equipment for temporary writing was a slab of wax (in a supportive folder of some type) and a stylus.