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    Ludus duodecim scriptorum, or XII scripta, was a board game popular during the time of the Roman Empire. The name translates as "game of twelve markings"...
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    Ludus Dacicus. Ludus was also the word for a board game, examples of which include ludus latrunculorum and ludus duodecim scriptorum, or a game played...
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    Grammai and other early race games Classical period: notably Ludus duodecim scriptorum and Tabula Nard period: from its invention or earliest appearance...
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    Roman ludus duodecim scriptorum ('Game of twelve lines') with the board's middle row of points removed, and only the two outer rows remaining. Ludus duodecim...
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    Empire, when the predecessor of the modern game of backgammon, Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum, became popular among Roman legionnaires. It is also due to them...
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    (Latrunculi), Roman checkers (Calculi), Tic-tac-toe (Terni Lapilli), and Ludus duodecim scriptorum and Tabula, predecessors of backgammon. Other activities included...
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    however, these laws were likely not enforced. Tali, Terni lapilli, Duodecim Scripta, and Ludus latrunculorum were all popular games in ancient Rome. They were...
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    petteia. This game of petteia would later evolve into the Roman game of ludus latrunculorum. Germany Kriegsspiel is a genre of wargaming developed in...
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    Crete) Ludus duodecim scriptorum table in the museum at Ephesus, an ancestor of backgammon. Modern reconstruction of the Roman board game Ludus latrunculorum...
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    (latrunculi), Roman checkers (Calculi), tic-tac-toe (terni lapilli), and ludus duodecim scriptorum and tabula, predecessors of backgammon. There were several other...
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    strategic game with rules; for other Roman board games see ludus duodecim scriptorum and ludus latrunculorum. The ivory quadrigae may have been actual miniatures...
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    the game for Zeno. Tabula was most likely a later refinement of ludus duodecim scriptorum, with the board's middle row of points removed, and only the two...
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  • ISBN 978-8-81200032-6. Retrieved 3 April 2021. Cazzuffi, Elena (2010). D. M. Ausonio, Ludus septem sapientum. Studio introduttivo, traduzione e note di commento (PhD)...
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