Games at Redwood-R-US

Games at Redwood-R-Us :

We have beautiful redwood Tic-Tac-Toe sets including three dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe sets. Our Puzzle Pegs will keep you busy for hours. Our playing cards not only come redwood trees but some very perty animal sceins.

Game History: Tic-Tac-Toe (Three Mens Morris)

There seem to be two forms of the ancient game of Three Mens Morris; one with diagonals and one without. The diagonals form is effectively the same game as Tic-Tac-Toe or Noughts and Crosses today and a board of this type has been found cut into the temple at Kurna, Egypt (~1440 BC) although this may well have been done at some later time.

According to Thomas Hyde (1908), the Chinese also played the game c. 500BC.

A couple of centuries on, Ovid mentions the game in "Ars Amatoria". Roman boards were usually made of wood or tone although the rich occasionally had boards made of more exotic materials (Trimalchio had one of turpentine-tree and Martial speaks of an ivory board).

The game was widely played in England in AD1300 and visitors to the cathedrals of Norwich, Canterbury, Gloucester, Salisbury and Westminster Abbey can see boards cut into the cloister seats by monks.

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