The oldest known board game: reconstructed from 4,500-year-old clay tablets. Roll four tetrahedral dice to move pieces along an L-shaped track. Rosette squares grant extra rolls and safety from capture. Landing on opponent pieces sends them back to start. Bear off all seven pieces to win. Rules reconstructed from 4,500-year-old clay tablets.
Every rule of Royal Game of Ur below is frontmatter in the rules corpus, played by the race plugin. The board beside each is the game itself, live.
Roll four tetrahedral dice to move pieces along an L-shaped track. Rosette squares grant extra rolls and safety from capture. Landing on opponent pieces sends them back to start. Bear off all seven pieces to win. Rules reconstructed from 4,500-year-old clay tablets.
engine:
topology:
type: grid
rows: 3
cols: 8
players: [white, black]
plugin: race
plugins:
royal-ur:
pieces: 7
routes:
white:
- [2, 3]
- [2, 2]
- [2, 1]
- [2, 0]
- [1, 0]
- [1, 1]
- [1, 2]
- [1, 3]
- [1, 4]
- [1, 5]
- [1, 6]
- [1, 7]
- [2, 7]
- [2, 6]
# …Royal Game of Ur (Standard)
Every Royal Game of Ur variant is playable against the AI or another player.