What year is board games invented?

Answer 1

The ancient Egyptians had a board game called Hounds and Jackels. The details of the game are not known, but it was a board game with pegs. Throughout history, people have played Board Games. The classic game of strategy, Chess, has ties to ancient Persia in it's terminology. Checkers is another such game. The most fascinating history of board games is found in the following link. So when the board game was invented is still a question. Ur of the Chaldees had a "royal game" and it is thought to be a board game.

Answer 2

In 1962, University of Illinois student John Spinello, studying industrial design, was assigned the project of designing a toy. He earned the highest grade in the class with his box-shaped, electric toy. It was metal with holes and crooked lines drilled through the top and came with a metal rod. Players had to have a steady hand to get the rod in the openings without touching the sides. If the probe did touch, a circuit would be completed between two oppositely charged metal plates and would set off a loud bell.

Spinello's godfather, Sam Cottone, was a top model-maker at Marvin Glass Associates (MGA) and when he saw the game, he brought Spinello to the president of the company. Marvin Glass's initial reaction was negative, but once he tried the game and set off the bell, he said he would buy the rights to the game for $500 and give Spinello a job at the company.

The last version of the MGA game was called "Death Valley" where players still used the metal probe, but were "in search of water" (in the many possible watering holes) on an exploration through the desert.

When the game reached the Milton Bradley Company, the game was redesigned while keeping the core, structural concept. The game went from the deserted Death Valley to the hospital operating room, and thus the game of OPERATION that we know today was created.

It was designed with a buzzer and a light bulb instead of a bell. Tweezers replaced the metal probe and the holes were filled with plastic pieces, such as a pencil for Writer's Cramp and a horse for Charley Horse. Players had to steadily place the metal tool inside the hole, while also removing the cause of the patient's pain without hitting a nerve and causing him more grief.

In 1965, the game came out on the production line with a patient identified as "Cavity Sam," presumably named after what cardiologists call SAM (Systolic Anterior Motion), an ailment that occurs in a ventricular cavity of the heart. Cavity Sam came with a red rubber-coated light bulb for a nose, but also he had bigger problems as he was troubled by 12 medical ailments, including: Ankle Bone Connected to the Knee Bone, Bread Basket, Spare Ribs, Butterflies in the Stomach, Water on the Knee, Funny Bone, Charley Horse, Writer's Cramp, Wish Bone, Wrenched Ankle, Adam's Apple and Broken Heart.

(from The Hasbro Company website on "The History of Operation")

Answer 3

The closest ancestor of Chess was first seen in India during the Gupta Empire, early 6th century. In time, the game would be taken to the Muslim world and from there, it would reach Western Europe as early as the 9th century.

Answer 4

the oldest known board game is called UR Royal Game of Sumer game - 1977, Selchow & Righter check out this cool website: http://www.donsgamecloset.com/index.html

Answer 5

1965

Answer 6

1965

Answer 7

1982