Social Games (DD1000)

The final task for Ben this semester involves creating a poster about the history of social games and presenting it to the rest of the group. Our group has decided to divide up the subject into three major categories: Physical Games, Board Games and Digital Games. 

I will be looking at board games and how they have changed over the span of many years. I found a nice timeline from John Radoff's internet wonderland which displays a brief summary of the topic in its entirety. The image can be viewed below:

Radoff explains how dice represent luck and apparently stemmed from Soothsayers using bone pieces to predict future events. While different forms of dice have been used throughout history, Backgammon was one of the first which originated in Persia around 3000BC.

Chess (being one of the most famous and classic board games) was previously thought to be a method of teaching battle strategy's to generals and then was described as teaching caution, circumspection and foresight according to an essay written by Benjamin Franklin "Morals of Chess"