Readers Digest Australia Sampler 2022

I L LU S T R AT I O N: S E R G E B LO C H 1 We have been playing board games – in some cases, the same board games – for millennia. Chess, checkers, backgammon and Go all have origins in the ancient world. King Tutankhamun was bur- ied with multiple sets of an Egyptian game called senet. Ajax and Achilles still appear hunched over a board in BY Emily Goodman 13 THINGS the midst of play on hundreds of piec- es of Greek pottery. And the Ashanti people of Ghana are believed to have created a board game called wari , which you may know as mancala. 2 It wasn’t until the 19th cen- tury that board games began to be sold commercially. The Board Games 13 Boredom-Busting Facts About 22 May 2022