Game Britannia notes

1996 - iron game - game found - medieval times - game represents with religion - Win by going to the corners.
Later in that period games started to come from the East, for example chess, checkers and backgammon

Games are in every culture - due to people being bored

9 men morris popular back in medieval times - it's similar to naughts and  crosses - used for passing the time e.g. when waiting in lines at churches

Game played in the "Demons temple" gambling (game of dices). They gamble on the number that it lands on, however as the game progresses, they need to bet more and more. Dices games were also used for working what your fate is (to see who gets what in the name of God)

Georgian era - gambling goes more popular - rich people used it more

After someone died because of gambling, they put a limit on gambling

Royal game of Goose parlour became very popular

18th - 19th century thought that the dice was evil so games wasn't used. In goose a spinning top was used instead of a dice.

Goose had many penalties used to learn what's morally right and wrong

Goose led the way for commercial games

With games being sold, people went to the colonies to come up with new ideas for games

One of these were Snakes and ladders which was inspired by a Hindu game called moksha pAtam or vaikunthapaali or paramapada sopaanam (the ladder to salvation). (Had to google the name)

Another game from there was chess -
Thornton standardised the game of chess and created a standard for chess pieces and rules
A theory for chess, was that it could have been used to teach people the ways of war in the past

Chess is easy is learn, however it's difficult to master, this game also became the flagship for commercials.

I didn't have much to say on this video apart from the fact the this video was very interesting as there was a lot of history about where all the games came from, where most of them came from India. This makes me wonder if they mainly looked at India for game idea or was it by chance that India had many great games which continues to entertain people all the way to the present.

Another thing which makes me wonder is why people thought that the dice was evil, but the spinning top isn't. They're both decided with chance meaning there's no-way you can tell where they're going to land, so this leads me to think that the reason why they thought the dice is evil, is the history behind it and the past uses for the dice, e.g. gambling.

Snakes and ladders also sparked my interest as it's origins was a game which had so much meaning to it, it was used in religion to show how life works. However after being imported to Britain and years later, the game changed completely. Snakes and ladders only limited things you can do within the game, go up ladder, slide down snakes and reach the end.