Pilae includes a variety of balls and relative games. These included the Follis which was hit around with the padded arm or even the hand, I guess a little like the English game of Fives. To this we can add a further popular game called Trochus, which is in fact a stick and hoop.
The main parts of these were made of metal and the hoop in particular was made so as to ensure it made plenty of din as it went round. The hoop was large, possibly as large as a grown man. This is actually odds or evens.
It obviously lent itself to placing a small wager. This was a game similar to Par Impar except that the two opponents would cast a number from with their fingers and each would have to guess the sum of the two hands or simply whether the result would be odd or even. Many tabulae lusoriae were actually carved into the floors of public buildings, suggesting that such games could be played almost anywhere. He recommends the game to women who wish to have luck in love. This Roman game was similar to our modern Chess or Draughts.
These Latrunculi were generally made of materials such as wax, glass, wood or stone. The game has a variety of possible sources, such as Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who it is said invented it in order to instruct his men in the art of war and strategy. Seneca, who has written about the game on various occasions attributed the invention of the game to a sage of Greece.
The fullest although incomplete account of the game is given in a poem of uncertain authorship, possibly Ovid, dedicated to Piso. A board game which appears to have been found particularly around the area of Rome itself. The first row always has 10 letters, the second and third 8 and in the fourth 7. An elegant example may be seen at the Capitoline Museums. As far as I can tell, this was similar to a sort of backgamon combined with a word game. Each player had three dice and three playing fiches which could be moved forward and out of the board according to the dice scores.
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