May 5 2011 - week 32

In a video documentary that we watched today, we saw how ancient games have evolved into the games we know now. Priests and commoners used to carve some form of naught's and crosses into the stone of a chapel whilst they were waiting. Interestingly the church thought that dice are the spawn of the devil as they rely solely on luck and can easily be rigged, the alternative was a spinning top which all be it the same problem of luck didn't seem to bother them. It also seems that older games were adapted to the host culture so that they would sell better, snakes and ladders was a rendition of the Hindus game of life from hundreds of years ago.