[HN Gopher] America's Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geo...
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       America's Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geography
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2024-09-02 16:49 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | WobbuPalooza wrote:
       | Great seeing this here. Some related articles I can suggest
       | include ...
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       | * 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...
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       | * Adrian Seville, "The geographical Jeux de l'Oie of Europe":
       | https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/11907?lang=en
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       | * Holly Brewer, "The Royal Geographical Pastime: A Game from
       | 1770":
       | https://web.sas.upenn.edu/earlyamericanstudies/2022/07/15/th...
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       | * Holly Brewer and Lauren Michalak, "Royal Geographic Game
       | (1770)": https://slaverylawpower.org/timelines-and-maps/game-age-
       | empi...
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | stroupwaffle try this:
       | chrome://extensions/?id=llimhhconnjiflfimocjggfjdlmlhblm
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | 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".
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders#History
        
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