Games

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Most SCA events (other than meetings and practices) include games. These may be historical, modern interpretations of historical competitions, variations of modern games with a Renaissance/Medieval flavor, or modern games with historical elements. Some are not strictly games, but game-like activities.

The Inn of the Crimson Spade provides a place for gaming at events, and regularly hosts championship tournaments in chess and backgammon at baronial and shire anniversaries.

Games include

Board Games

  • Chess (an ancient board game typically played using modern rules)
  • Hnefatafl ancient Nordic and Celtic strategy board games played on a checkered or latticed gameboard with two armies of uneven numbers. A later, similar game is Fox & Geese and Fox and Hounds.
  • Backgammon (an ancient board game typically played using modern rules) based upon the Roman Tabula
  • Tables or Tabula is derived from an earlier Roman game called Ludus duodecim scriptorum. Similar to but pre-dating backgammon, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points," using dice.
  • Merrills (aka Nine Men's Morris, a modern recreation of Merrills), a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire.
  • Alquerque (also known as Qirkat from Arabic: القرقات‎), an ancestor of Draughts or Checkers
  • Cathedral (a modern board game with a Medieval theme)

Dice Games

  • Farkle is a dice game with historical roots, typically played using modern rule.
  • Knucklebones Knucklebones are the vertebrae (thebackbone) of medium-sized animals like sheep or goats, and the games you play with them are like jacks.
  • Hazard is an early English game played with two dice; it was mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 14th century.

Card Games

  • Playing cards have ancient roots, and modern "Poker deck" cards are graphically similar to historical decks. Reproductions of late-period and early-post-period playing card decks are available for purchase. Tarot decks were also used for gaming in the Medieval period. *See Tarots
  • Scopa, s a two sided game and can be played by two players, or four players in two teams
  • Laugh and Lie Down For three to five players using a French-suited 52 card deck.
  • Piquet an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players
  • |Karnöffel Europe's oldest card game
  • Gleek is an English card game for three persons. It is played with a 44-card pack
  • Primero dates to 1526

Pub Games

Field Games

  • Bocce (an ancient, bowling-style game related to British bowls and French pétanque, with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. There is an indoor version known as Skittles.
  • Hoodman's Blind is a version of Blind man's buff, a multi-person game in which one person was to be chosen to be "it" and has his/her hood reversed so he/she cannot see. This person is then spun around several times. After which the rest of the group, called tormenters (or dogs if imitating bear baiting) will yell, slap and tag the blindfolded person. If the blindfolded person can tag one of the tormenters, then that person becomes it and the game continues.
  • Throwing the Hood or Haxey Hood- commemorates a Norman lady, wife of John De Mowbray. was riding through Craise Lound when the wind blew the hood from her head. Twelve men, whom she called Boggoners, chased it with much confusion and competition. This amused her so much that she gave them twelve acres of land. The game developed such that the hood was of leather, stuffed with straw. Villages would compete to see who could get the hood to the nearest alehouse. The villagers who did so, won the game, and, I suspect, a round of drinks.
  • Shinty (Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain)

Combat Games

Other (not-so-period) Games

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