Ulrich SCHÄDLER

Original title: Juegos olvidados: ¿perdidos para siempre o aun salvables?

Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque

Keywords: Ancient Archaeology, Board games, Rules.

In this article we propose to reflect on the reconstruction of the rules of ancient board games. Is it possible to know the original rules? What can we do to reconstruct them? The research project Locus ludi deals with modules of game rules that, in theory, can be combined in any way. In this way, it is possible to test the functionality of game rule variants or reconstruction proposals, and even to create family trees.