So, we learned about an ancient germanic board game that sounds really neat and why is this not still seen alongside chess and checkers? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_gam

the reconstructed rules sound like a really interesting strategy game to play and I'd love to try it

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also the word hnefatafl is fun

I like old germanic consonant clusters, they're neat

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