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Barail DLP Game   

Period Medieval

Region Southern Europe, Western Europe

Category Reconstruction, Done, Board, Race, Escape

Description

Barail is a European Tables game played in sixteenth century Italy.

Rules

Backgammon board. Fifteen pieces per player. Three six-sided dice. Both players proceed in the same track, which goes from one left-hand point in the corner of the board in an anti-clockwise direction, ending at the point opposite it. One player has one piece on the tenth point and fourteen on the eleventh; the other has fifteen on the twelfth point. Players bear off from the end of the track.


These rules were taken from the Historical Information ruleset.

All Rulesets

Reconstructed rulesets
Barail (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 2) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 3) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 5) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 6) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 7) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 8) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 9) Reconstructed with Ludii
Barail (Ludii 10) Reconstructed with Ludii

Incomplete rulesets
Historical Information Rules from DLP evidence.

Origin

Italy

Ludeme Description

Barail.lud

Concepts

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Reference

Parlett 1999: 79.

Evidence Map

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Sources

Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.1140


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