Home›Race Games›Origin Year›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryOrigin year places a game in the year its rules were first fixed in writing. Wikipedia notes rugby football's "rules were first put down in written (codified) form in 1845," even though students had already been playing an informal version "since at least the early 1820s." Browsing by origin year separates when a game's rules were formalized from when it was actually first played.Facts20th centuryFAQsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of OriginWell-attested3000 BCE 120th centuryFilter Results59 entriesSportAllBoard Game (53)Card Game (3)Children's Game (8)Dexterity Game (1)Dice Game (1)Strategy Game (1)Tabletop Game (1)Player CountAllLarge Group or Variable (2)Small Group (3-6 Players) (54)Two-Player (7)Origin RegionAllAncient Rome (1)Finland (2)France (1)Germany (3)Italy (1)Japan (1)North America (2)United Kingdom (4)United States (5)Wisconsin (1)Derived FromAllConcentration (card game) (1)Ludo (1)Mille Bornes (1)Pachisi (1)The Game of Life (1)Playing Time BandAll30 to 90 Minutes (4)Skill or LuckAllMixed (5)Age SuitabilityAllChildren (2)Family (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 506-Tage Rennen20th centuryAfrikan tähti20th centuryAggravation (board game)20th centuryAnti-Monopoly20th centuryAuf Achse20th centuryCamp Granada20th centuryCandy Land20th centuryCan't Stop (board game)20th centuryCareers (board game)20th centuryCartagena (board game)20th centuryCashflow 10120th centuryChicken Cha Cha Cha20th centuryCoppit20th centuryDemon's Run (board game)20th centuryDon't Wake Daddy20th centuryEscalado20th centuryEscape from Atlantis20th centuryFireball Island20th centuryForbidden Bridge20th centuryFormula D (board game)20th centuryGet Out (board game)20th centuryGrass (card game)20th centuryHare and Tortoise20th centuryHi Ho! Cherry-O20th centuryJinsei Game20th centuryJourney Through Europe20th centuryKarawane (board game)20th centuryKimble (board game)20th centuryKlondike (board game)20th centuryLondon Cabbie20th centuryLudus duodecim scriptorum20th centuryMall Madness20th centuryMasterpiece (game)20th centuryMensch ärgere Dich nicht20th centuryMille Bornes20th centuryMississippi Queen (board game)20th centuryMonopoly20th centuryOutrage! (game)20th centuryPank-a-Squith20th centuryPretty Pretty Princess20th centuryRoller Coaster Hippo20th centurySeaside Frolics20th centurySorry!20th centurySpeed Circuit20th centurySuffragetto20th centuryThe Game of Life20th centuryThe Grape Escape20th centuryThe London Game20th centuryThe Metric Mile20th centuryThe Mystic Wood20th centuryShowing 1 to 50 of 59, page 1 of 2.12Next →FAQsWhy are Monopoly and Chinese Checkers grouped under Race Games?Monopoly and Chinese Checkers are placed here as a browsing convenience for their track-and-goal mechanics, not as a strict Parlett-family claim.Race Games covers games whose central mechanic is moving a piece along or across a track toward a destination, one of David Parlett's core traditional-game families, including Backgammon, Ludo, Parcheesi, Snakes and Ladders and Senet among others. Monopoly and Chinese Checkers are placed here too as a browsing convenience rather than a principled Parlett-family claim: Monopoly for its roll-and-move-around-a-track structure and Chinese Checkers for its move-pieces-across-a-board-to-a-goal structure, neither a traditional dice race in the strict sense.Sources1. Wikipedia: Backgammontier 2WikipediaBackgammon, Ancient history sectionQuote, Backgammon, Ancient history sectionThe history of board games can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to archaeological discoveries of the Jiroft culture, in Iran, the world's oldest game set having been discovered in the region with equipment comprising a dumbbell-shaped board, counters and dice.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.