Simple Royal Game of Ur

A remix of 3D Printing Professor's folding model of the Royal Game of Ur game board with very simple tiles
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A remix of 3D Printing Professor's folding model of the Royal Game of Ur game board.

I needed a board game to present to preschoolers smart enough to need a smidge more complexity than the Game of the Goose, but with less players than Ludo. I also needed to be able to explain the simplified rules without having to introduce the concept of a rosette, and also why one of them is different despite looking identical to all the others. 

So I replaced all the tiles with new, less complex ones using stock shapes from Tinkercad, going for a medieval-castle-y vibe. The rosettes are now stars. The special star has a circle around it. 

I used Joka67's board game piece instead of the usual disc-shaped game pieces and the rounded version pepesquadrone's toothpick dice to be as friendly to tiny fingers as possible. Players count the dice that land in the color of their game piece. 

Mine printed with a slightly loose clasp. I added a smidge of clear, matte nail polish to the nubs and the cavities, and that fixed it. 

Took about 8 hours to print at .2mm on a Prusa Mini+. Use a brim if you're nervous about height or wobbling. Board is printed in 3DJake rPla White, the pieces are 3DJake Ecopla Neon Orange and Recyclingfabrik rPLA Frische Wiese. 

 

In case you print this for a child at an age of questioning all the things: 

  • the animals are llamas because that's what the Tinkercad Gods labeled them as, but if they are horsies in your heart, they are most definitely horsies.
  • the trees look like lollipops because all other tree shapes I could find did not want to be made game-board size. Also, lollipops are awesome.
  • there's two tiles with crowns that are upside down because the shapes on the really, really old game board this is made from were upside down there. We don't know why. If you want to find out, you have to finish high school and get a degree in history or archeology.
  • the dot in the stars is not exactly in the middle because the computer wasn't smart enough to put them in the middle, and while I was making the board game, I was up past my bedtime and was too sleepy to notice. I didn't fix it so you would have an important lesson about not staying up past your bedtime and embracing imperfection.

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