"Draughts" can mean:
1. Drinks. People have been drinking forever, it wasn't invented.
2. Breezes that get through walls, doors and windows. They weren't invented either, they just happen.
3. The game also known as checkers. Its invention is lost in antiquity.
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Draughts is another name for checkers.
The game draughts is also known as checkers.
in draughts can a single take down a double
24 Draughts on a Draughts Board (UK)
"Would you like to play checkers or draughts with me?"
I think it is called 'checkers' in the USA.
Draughts is the name of a British board game, called chequers in the USA and Canada
Don't know if I have the context right but, in the UK, draughts (pronounced "drafts") is the game known in the USA as checkers.
You can put one of your draughts behind one of your other ones to stop your opponent jumping that draught.
The back row of squares on a draughts board is called a crown-head.
Sometimes; but they hung them on the walls to keep out draughts and damp. The floor, they covered with rushes. After all, carpet cleaners had not been invented yet.