Backgammon
My favorite "historical" game is backgammon. The basic game play involves rolling dice to help you determine how many spaces you can move each piece around the board. The object is to get all of your pieces to your home-board and bear them off the board before your opponent does. The reason I selected this game as opposed to any other game as my favorite "historical" game is because it is a game that involves a combination of the game mechanics of luck and strategy. I like having a balance between luck and strategy because it evens out the odds of winning and losing. A game that is all luck involves no thought or challenge of the mind, and a game that is all strategy involves too much thinking and can create a huge gap between player skills and capabilities and make the game more unfair and frustrating to a player with less developed skills. Backgammon involves luck because you never know what you will roll, however it also involves strategy because you need to figure out the best and most effective way to get your pieces across the board using whatever numbers you happen to roll on the dice.
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