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Liubo (Chinese: 六博; pinyin: liù bó; Wade–Giles: liu po; literally: "six sticks") is an ancient Chinese board game
played by two players. For the rules, it is believed that each player
had six game pieces that were moved around the points of a square game
board that had a distinctive, symmetrical pattern. Moves were determined
by the throw of six sticks, which performed the same function as dice in other race games.
The game was invented no later than the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, and was immensely popular during the Han Dynasty
(202 BCE – 220 CE). However, after the Han Dynasty it rapidly declined
in popularity, possibly due to the rise in popularity of the game of Go,
and it eventually became almost totally forgotten. Knowledge of the
game has increased in recent years with archeological discoveries of
Liubo game boards and game equipment in ancient tombs, as well as
discoveries of Han Dynasty picture stones and picture bricks depicting
Liubo players.....
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