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snakes and ladders seems a candidate, if it dates back that far. “The game was popular in ancient India by the name Moksha Patam. It was also associated with t
by jazzyjackson 5y ago
snakes and ladders seems a candidate, if it dates back that far.
“The game was popular in ancient India by the name Moksha Patam. It was also associated with traditional Hindu philosophy contrasting karma and kama, or destiny and desire. It emphasized destiny, as opposed to games such as pachisi, which focused on life as a mixture of skill (free will) and luck.” … “ The morality lesson of the game was that a person can attain salvation (Moksha) through doing good, whereas by doing evil one will be reborn as lower forms of life. The number of ladders was less than the number of snakes as a reminder that a path of good is much more difficult to tread than a path of sins. Presumably, reaching the last square (number 100) represented the attainment of Moksha (spiritual liberation).”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders
- I-can-explain 5y agoI think that would be eliminated by rule 3: "Games of marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places" since the pieces are really just representations of the player.