Chess and cards were introduced to North America by Christopher Columbus.Mary Bellis covered inventions and inventors for ThoughtCo for 18 years.She is known for her independent films and documentaries, including one about Alexander Graham Bell.A selection of histories behind the invention of board games, playing cards, and puzzles.
It turns out that game inventors are often as amusing as the games they invent. Backgammon is a two-player board game that involves dice throws and the strategic moving of ones markers around the board, while both trying to knock your opponents markers off the board and protecting your own markers from being knocked off. Backgammon had its beginning around the 1st century A.D. The Roman Emperor Claudius was said to be a very avid player of Tabula, a predecessor to the game of Backgammon. In Barrel of Monkeys, the object is to create an interlocking chain of monkey looking pieces. Lakeside Toys also invented the bendable Pokey and Gumby figures. Bingo, the famous raise-money-for-the-church-social game, can trace its roots to 1530, and an Italian lottery called Lo Giuoco del Lotto DItalia. Lowe re-invented the game and was the first person to call it Bingo. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner. Card games were co-created with playing cards themselves and may have been invented by the Chinese when they began shuffling paper money into various combinations. Though where and when cards originated is uncertain, China does seem the most likely place to have invented cards, and the 7th to the 10th century the earliest probable time playing cards appeared. Checkers or as the British call it Draughts, is a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard. The object of the game is to capture all of your opponents pieces. A board game that appeared very similar to checkers was discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur in modern-day Iraq. This board game dates to about 3000 B.C. Checkers as we know it today has been around since 1400 B.C. In Egypt, a similar game was called Alquerque. Chess is an intense strategy game played by two persons, on a chessboard. Each player has 16 pieces that can make different types of moves depending on the piece. The object of the game is to capture your opponents King piece. A very early form of Chess was called Chaturanga, a four-handed game played with dice. Chess pieces were carved miniature elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers.
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