![]() Any reconstructions must be highly conjectural and speculative. The manner this game was played is unknown. If two players had two counters each, attaining both of them into position on these circles would be as logical as any other reconstruction. An easy speculation, attributed by the Sir Arthur Evans, the discoverer of the game, is that the four blue circles, shown here at the bottom of the board and sometimes referred to as the fortresses or citadels, represent the objective of the game. It is very likely that the game was a race game similar to other ancient games from the Middle and Far East. The board is, by many criteria, unusual and some historians have doubted that it is even a game at all. ![]() This is the only representative of a very enigmatic game board discovered in archaeological excavations by Sir Arthur Evans at the Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete, dating to around 1500 BCE.
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