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Re:America's Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geography by WobbuPalooza on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:38PM (#41427327)
Great seeing this here. Some related articles I can suggest include ...

* Matthew Wynn Sivils, "What America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation": https://theconversation.com/what-americas-first-board-game-c...

* Adrian Seville, "The geographical Jeux de l'Oie of Europe": https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/11907?lang=en

* Holly Brewer, "The Royal Geographical Pastime: A Game from 1770": https://web.sas.upenn.edu/earlyamericanstudies/2022/07/15/th...

* Holly Brewer and Lauren Michalak, "Royal Geographic Game (1770)": https://slaverylawpower.org/timelines-and-maps/game-age-empi...

Re:America's Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geography by 082349872349872 on Monday September 02, 2024 @03:18PM (#41428060)
It's amusing how this game, by avoiding cubical dice and requiring knowledge of city names and populations to advance, is firmly on the side of "skill: good, luck: bad" for didactic games, while Moksha Patam, the precursor of Snakes & Ladders, was deliberately employed to teach the opposite lesson, "skill: useless, destiny: everything".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders#History

Re:America's Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geography by pimlottc on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:58PM (#41429807)
It doesn’t use dice but a teetotum is basically the same thing. It’s a spinning top with numbers on the sides, much like a dreidel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teetotum

Re:America's Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geography by bookofjoe on Monday September 02, 2024 @02:41PM (#41427803)
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