A little while ago we watched the first episode of Games Britannia This series will provide me with information about the history of games, particular board games, and how they were played.
The first part of the series went on to tell us about ancient games such nine men's morris, and chess. These games were not simply played just for fun the were played because of their strategical benefits.
A good example of this is chess, this game is played for fun but is a very strategic game and is represents war, for example in chess you have to move you pieces around the board whilst defending your king and also taking your opponents pieces to open up a path to take their king.
the presenter then goes on to talk about a game called pharo which was very popular among the upper classes this was probably due to the fact that the upper classes had more disposable income and could afford to lose money.
The game of Pharo involved a lot of cheating from both the layer and and the banker which is probably why it was it got banned in france, Pharo has three names the English called it Pharo the French called it Pharaon and the Americans called it faro it also went by two other names which were "bucking the tiger" and "twisting the tiger's tail" these names came about because of the picture of a bengal tiger on the back of the cards people started to hang a picture of a tiger in their window to let people know they playing Pharo.
The presenter then went on to talk about games from foreign countries such as snakes and ladders, and ludo. the game of snakes and ladders is of hindu origins and depicts the journey of enlightenment.
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