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How to
Play
The game begins with all
players putting one coin on the 7 square....ante
up, if you will...
Players took turns throwing a pair of dice.
(D6)
"Regular" squares
- On a roll of a three, five, six, eight,
nine, ten or eleven, the player took a coin
if one was on the square belonging to that
number, or placed one there if it was empty.
"Irregular" squares
- Seven is The
Wedding square.
I can't reliably paint
people, so there are hearts. Sue me.
If a player rolled a seven, he placed a coin
on the square because one always brings a
gift to a wedding.
- Two is
The Lucky
Pig. If a player rolled a two, he collected
all the coins on the board except for The
Wedding.
I made the pig
phallically and heraldically correct,
because this amused me. Other details,
like the Rabbit
and the
Unicorn, will be less offensive to
modern tastes.
- Twelve is The King.
If a player rolled a twelve, he collected
all the coins on the board including The
Wedding, because it's good to be the King.
- There is no square for rolling a four.
During the Renaissance, if a player rolled a
four, he paid a coin to the owner of the
board. This seems fair to me.
How did you
make yours?
Most folks seem to have
a knack for exacting research and wonderful
results that could come from the Middle Ages
themselves.
I really don't.
This looked like a fun thing to make for my
friends. I put about 12 hours into it with
preliminary research as well as the actual work.
I wasn't going to put 40 more hours in, what
with serious research, hewing the board, mixing
the dye, and casting the coins. Sorry,
nope...not me.
The board
is a
brand new cutting board from one of the "Big
Box" stores. I wanted it to be sturdy.
Since they also lost all their contemporary
games in a flood, it amused me to have this made
in a medium that could float.
I blocked out before the
primer coat with masking tape, and hit it
with a layer of wall primer.
The I freehand drew
things very lightly. I used images
that I had seen in medieval manuscripts and old
tarot cards.
Ultimately I painted
bright colors using what was at hand.
(For the
Warhammer 40K fans, you may recognize
Ultramarine Blue, Snotling Green,
Go Fasta Red and
Litch Purple)
A little
justification: Sufficed to say, I
really didn't try very hard at
authenticity in the realm of paint.
By the same token, I used what was at
hand...something medieval artisans would
have done as well. The paints I
used are expensive- does that count?
Ultimately the board
will be coated in a thin layer of
polyurethane to protect the painted surface, and
the folks will be gifted with dice.
I have also included a
small pouch of faux coins so they can practice.
When they play for real, I'd suggest dimes.
Made by my hand for Yule 2004
Maggie Ahrens
Links to other
Gluckshaus sites
Gluckshaus (House of Fortune)
Glückhaus
(commercial site-
beautiful
embroidered board)
hist-games: Re: Gluckshaus
commercial site-
with an
interesting decoupage idea
Look Here!
Malte from Germany very kindly sent me a link.
Thanks Malte!
In the Original German (in German)
translated (poorly) by Babelfish (in
English)
Copyright Info
and
Permission to Reproduce:
Click on the
board to get a printable board of your
own.
Copyright info here
click here for the biggest scan with the best
resolution(***huge file size, ahoy!***)
or here for a PDF
with directions
These images are all Freeware, but they are
not Public Domain. I retain the copyright, so
please don't modify them in any way. And please
place "Copyright © Maggie Ahrens 2009, Used
with Permission" near the art. Thanks.
In other words:
You may give them away, fill a winter hall with
them, share with your library this summer,
decoupage them to a cutting board, use them for
wrapping paper or paper the walls with them.
You may NOT sell them in any way, shape or form.
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