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Derived from traces a game back to the older form it grew out of. Wikipedia notes "forms of football in which the ball was carried and tossed date to the Middle Ages," a lineage rugby football drew on before splitting further "into the modern sports of rugby union and rugby league" in 1895. This dimension shows the sequence of games that led to a given one.

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7 Wonders (board game)

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Alquerque

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Basic Role-Playing

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Belote

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Bezique

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Blackjack

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Boston (card game)

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Brag (card game)

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Brelan

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Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)

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Canasta

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Catan

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Charades

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1 entry

Chaturanga

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5 entries

Chess

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24 entries

Chu shogi

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1 entry

Conquian

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Crazy Eights

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1 entry

Dai shogi

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1 entry

Dou dizhu

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1 entry

Draughts

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3 entries

Dungeons & Dragons

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2 entries

English draughts

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Fate (role-playing game system)

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Focus (board game)

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Fox games

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The Game of Life

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1 entry

Gin Rummy

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Go

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1 entry

Golf (card game)

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1 entry

GURPS

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1 entry

Halma

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2 entries

Hearts

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2 entries

Illuminati (game)

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1 entry

Janggi

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Karnöffel

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3 entries

Klondike (Solitaire)

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2 entries

Ludo

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2 entries

Ludus duodecim scriptorum

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1 entry

Mahjong

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1 entry

Mancala

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7 entries

Manille

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1 entry

Mariage (card game)

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3 entries

Monopoly

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4 entries

Pachisi

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3 entries

Piquet

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1 entry

Pitch (card game)

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1 entry

Poker

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1 entry

Primero

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1 entry

Reversi

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1 entry

Risk

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1 entry

Royal Game of Ur

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1 entry

Rummy

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5 entries

RuneQuest

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1 entry

Scopa

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1 entry

Scrabble

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2 entries

Shatranj

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1 entry

Shogi

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4 entries

Simon (game)

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1 entry

Sixty-six (card game)

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Skat

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1 entry

Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Fantasy Flight Games)

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1 entry

Storytelling System

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1 entry

Tarot Card Games

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1 entry

Three men's morris

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1 entry

Tic-tac-toe

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2 entries

Tressette

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1 entry

Twilight: 2000

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1 entry

Uno

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1 entry

Wallenstein (board game)

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1 entry

Warhammer 40,000

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2 entries

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

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1 entry

Whist

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4 entries

Xiangqi

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3 entries

Yacht

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1 entry

Zwanzigerrufen

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1 entry
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Sources
The Oxford History of Board Games
Oxford University Press, 1999
  • Contains: Xiangqi
  • Contains: Janggi
  • Contains: Pachisi
  • Contains: Senet
  • Contains: Nine Men's Morris
  • Contains: Reversi
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