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App info
- Developer
- Shuhei Yamaya
- Category
- Games, Strategy, Board
- Released
- Sep 23, 2026
- Version
- 1.1.1 (Sep 23, 2026)
- Price
- Free
- Size
- 17.3 MB
- Requires
- iOS 15.0
- Age rating
- 4+
- Languages
- English and Japanese
In-app purchases
| Play every game | $1.99 |
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About Tessera: Ancient Games
In Mesopotamia, someone pressed the rules of a board game into a clay tablet, in cuneiform. Irving Finkel, an Assyriologist at the British Museum, read that tablet in the 1980s and worked out how the game must have gone. This app is a collection of games like that one. Right now there are three: ancient Mesopotamia, Viking-age Scandinavia, and West Africa three hundred years ago. More are on the way. The Mesopotamian game is free. One purchase unlocks the rest, and any game added later is included. ■ The Royal Game of Ur (Mesopotamia, around 2600 BCE) One of the oldest board games we know of. Race seven pieces to the end and you win. Leonard Woolley, a British archaeologist, dug the board out of the ground. Irving Finkel reconstructed the rules from two clay tablets found at Babylon and Uruk. ■ Hnefatafl (the Vikings, 8th to 11th century) An unusual game where the two sides don't have…
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