Quoting BluSponge (moved this here from another thread)
Entertainments
- Ball
- Banquet
- Boating
- Coach journeying (coaching)
- Dancing
- Games
- Games, gambling
- Hawking
- Hunting
- Joust
- Musical performance
- Music hall
- Party, private
- Party, tea
- Puppet theater
- Racing (foot, horse, etc.)
- Riding
- Sports event
- Theatrical play
- Yachting
Sports & Sports Events
- Archery
- Badminton (shuttlecock &
- battledore)
- Bear and bull fighting
- Bear bating
- Bowling, 10-pins
- Bowling, 9-pins
- Boxing
- Bull baiting
- Cock fighting
- Dog fighting
- Fencing
- Football
- Golf
- Jousting
- Jumping
- Racing, foot
- Racing, horse
- Racing, sulky
- Tennis
- Throwing, hammer
- Throwing, javelin
- Weight lifting
- Wrestling
Games, Gaming Objects
- Backgammon
- Badminton
- Billiards
- Blind man’s bluff
- Bowls
- Cards
- Caroms
- Charades
- Chess*
- Coin (or washer) pitching/lagging
- Counters (chips)
- Croquet
- Darts
- Dice
- Draughts (checkers)
- Go
- Golf
- Hide & seek
- Hoop and stick
- Hop scotch
- Horseshoes
- Jacks (game)
- Jump rope
- Mah jong
- Mumblety-peg
- Naughts & crosses (tic-tac-toe)
- Nine men’s morris
- Nine pins
- Parcheesi
- Pool
- Pots & stones (mancala)
- Put & take
- Questions (20 questions)
- Quoits
- Roulette
- Senet
- Shovel (shuffle) board
- Skittles
- Snooker
- Tennis
- Tiddledy winks
- Tops
*Types played besides “modern” include chaturanga, Chinese, circular board, courier, double (four player), great, “old”, and shogi.
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TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
And with that, it's time to break out (of all things) Gary Gygax's World Builder (which, if you don't have in your reference library, you really need to hunt down a copy). It doesn't answer the question of what "squares" is, but gives a variety of other games that might be played during the era. Gygax was pretty good about research, as was his co-writer Dan Cross. It generally includes up to 17th Century entertainment.
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*Types played besides “modern” include chaturanga, Chinese, circular board, courier, double (four player), great, “old”, and shogi.
Sorry for the extremely random question, but...
Do any of the books explain exactly how the game Squares works? I was thinking the other day about what games might realistically exist in Theah. Some are specifically mentioned like dice games and darts, and then probably billiards for upscale bars, primitive versions of some ball-based sports like soccer and golf, sorte-card games, etc.
But I don't know if they ever explained Squares. I'm almost picturing it as a Sudoku-type game. :)
Billiards we know exists: I think it was in Frieburg that there was a floor plan of a manor house with a billiards room.
I always thought of Squares as Draughts (or Checkers, for Americans and young people).
Surely they also had Poker in 7th Sea. What, with all those Sorte cards lying around. An ace in hand is a strong temptation to gamble with fate and fortune.
Just a pity Motorhead was not yet a band in the fictional world of 7th Sea.
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e