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Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn't been played for 1,500 years were discovered in a heavily looted 2,300-year-old tomb near Qingzhou City in China.
There, archaeologists found a 14-face die made of animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces with numbers painted on them and a broken tile which was once part of a game board. The tile when reconstructed was "decorated with two eyes, which are surrounded by cloud-and-thunder patterns," wrote the archaeologists in a report published recently in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics.
We finally know what happened to Andy when he disappeared after casting Time Warp...
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday November 19 2015, @07:37AM
Exactly what game was this alleged "Andy" playing when he supposedly cast a so-called "time warp"? I hardly think it would have been Chinese, especially not Han Chinese, because time travel was not a meme in that time and place. More to the point was reading the "chi". You know, the chi that tells you what might happen, so you can handle problems when they are small and not have to confront a whole and adult Indomitus Rex with a pack of Velociorapters of dubious allegience. Problem too big, should have dealt with it earlier. And on Sirius note, from the Dog Star in Canis Major: gaming, as in war-gaming, was a major part of ancient Chinese culture. Read your Sunzi. We wargame, based on accurate intel, to determine the outcome. If you cannot see the outcome, it is foolish to enter the ground of battle. Poor Andy. We will miss him, and remember him when his shield is carried to the wall tonight.