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Games of skill
The shell game in Greece and the scales game among the Romans are the ancestors of the ricochet game where you have to bounce a stone on water to score points according to the number of ricochets you have managed to make.
The pit or vase game consists of throwing knucklebones into a small pit or vase to score the most points according to the number of knucklebones of your color that you have managed to send into the pit or vase.
The translation game, also called the dimple is the ancestor of the molky and was played in the same way by reaching a number by knocking down the pins, not with numbers at that time, but with different shapes.
The tropa game or the ancestor of the Angevin stopper which consists of throwing nutshells or small pebbles in a defined area which is made up of 16 distinct zones. The further we managed to throw the stones and in the same area, the more points we scored by the majority of stones that belonged to us.
The game of the circle and the pentagram which was played in approximately the same way. For the circle, we played from a distance by trying to throw our stones or nutshells into the circle, while for the pentagram it was the one who touched the most lines with his wooden sticks who won.
In the game of the delta, we draw a triangle with degrees represented by sticks. They also represent separations of the playing area. We then won the number of nuts corresponding to the line where our nut stops on one of its sticks.
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