The Royal Game of Ur (-2600)
Playtime: 30
Min. Age: 10
Players: 2
Publisher: HEMA, LuduScience, Gaudé Création, L. P. Septímio, Ludens Spirit, Merit, Mitra, NewVenture Games, Editora Abril, The British Museum, Ludens Planet, HistoryGames.it, Selchow & Righter, PICO PAO / Juegos de la Antigüedad, Northwest Corner, Inc., KOZAK Games, Otto Maier Verlag, (Public Domain), Senet Belgium, Bibelot Games, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), D-Toys, Geoludie, Dar Al-Saffar, (Self-Published), Krealudik
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Vlad Korniuk, Mariela Arratia
Mechanics: Static Capture, Square Grid, Race, Roll / Spin and Move
Min. Age: 10
Players: 2
Publisher: HEMA, LuduScience, Gaudé Création, L. P. Septímio, Ludens Spirit, Merit, Mitra, NewVenture Games, Editora Abril, The British Museum, Ludens Planet, HistoryGames.it, Selchow & Righter, PICO PAO / Juegos de la Antigüedad, Northwest Corner, Inc., KOZAK Games, Otto Maier Verlag, (Public Domain), Senet Belgium, Bibelot Games, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), D-Toys, Geoludie, Dar Al-Saffar, (Self-Published), Krealudik
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Vlad Korniuk, Mariela Arratia
Mechanics: Static Capture, Square Grid, Race, Roll / Spin and Move
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The game has been published under different names but it is a simple race game very much like Backgammon. This edition has a board that is a reproduction of the original found in the Mesopotamian city of Ur. Each player brings their 7 pieces in to play and takes them off of their outer track. Opposing pieces come into conflict on the inner track that they must travel on to the exit. If you land on a space occupied by a single opponent's piece you send it back to the start. If you land on a space occupied by 2 or more opponent's pieces then your piece goes back to the start.
The four dice give a marked or blank result. They are tetrahedral (four-sided) dice.
Each die gives a "1" or a "0". You can roll 0,1,2,3, or 4. Statistically, 2 is most common- a good thing to bear in mind. The rosette in the central track is a "safe" place from which you cannot be bumped, but you can be bumped on others. Landing on any rosette allows you to roll again, but you don't need to move that same piece.
All moves must be made by one piece only.
First to bear off all 7 of his pieces wins.
Note - Rules update in line with guidance from Irving Finkel from British Museum.
The game may be a relative of Senet and Aseb.
The four dice give a marked or blank result. They are tetrahedral (four-sided) dice.
Each die gives a "1" or a "0". You can roll 0,1,2,3, or 4. Statistically, 2 is most common- a good thing to bear in mind. The rosette in the central track is a "safe" place from which you cannot be bumped, but you can be bumped on others. Landing on any rosette allows you to roll again, but you don't need to move that same piece.
All moves must be made by one piece only.
First to bear off all 7 of his pieces wins.
Note - Rules update in line with guidance from Irving Finkel from British Museum.
The game may be a relative of Senet and Aseb.
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The game was also published under these names:
Royal Game of UR ,
El Juego Real o el Ur ,
Королівська гра Ур ,
لعبة أور الملكية ,
Das Königliche Spiel von "Ur" ,
UR Royal Game of Sumer ,
Jeu Royal d'UR ,
Ur Game ,
Il Gioco reale di Ur ,
Het Koninklijke Spel van Ur ,
UR Spiel ,
The Sumerian Game ,
Twenty Squares ,
Det Kungliga Spelet fran Ur ,
Het Koningsspel van Ur ,
The Game of Twenty Squares ,
Jogo Real de Ur ,
The Royal Game of Ur ,
Ur-Spiel Das königliche Spiel aus Mesopotamien ,
UR
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