Royal Game of Ur

Also known as Game of Twenty Squares, Game of Ur, Aasha

ancient Mesopotamian board game

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Years active: Earliest boards date to c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC during the Early Dynastic III , being played popularly in the Middle East through late antiquity and in Kochi, India through the 1950s
Genres: Board game Race game Dice game
Setup time: 10–30 seconds
Playing time: Usually around 30 minutes
Chance: Medium ( dice rolling)
Skills: Strategy Tactics Counting Probability
Synonyms: Game of Twenty Squares Game of Ur

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The Royal Game of Ur is a two-player strategy race board game of the tables family that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third millennium BC. The game was popular across the Middle East among people of all social strata, and boards for playing it have been found at locations as far away from Mesopotamia as Crete and Sri Lanka. One board, held by the British Museum, is dated to c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC, making it one of the oldest game boards in the world.

The Royal Game of Ur is sometimes equated to another ancient game which it closely resembles, the Game of Twenty Squares.