Now, before you start ripping me for ripping you, you have to know the #1 rule for dakota. Never, under any circumstances, take anything that might possibly be intended as offensive, seriously. When I'm serious about offending someone, they know it. Without doubt.

My accusations are totally in jest and totally meant to try to make myself look better, cause I do not see how it is AT ALL possible to get a score of 149 on that horrid game.

Anyway, I was like "garh!" over my foolishness in playing minesweeper whilst surfing the internet (and watching some really weird show about ninjas), getting a new best score, and losing over four seconds to sitting there staring at the clock with a slack-jawed expression on my face.

But I wasn't quite literate enough to just restrain my comments to "garh" when I finally got a board done except for one tile, then waited most of 15 minutes for time to run out.

Ok, Minesweeper was getting out of hand (I personally suck, no, I won't tell you my score.)

For field events, the Aztecs had a basketball like game, played on a huge field surrounded by sloping walls. In midfield, on either side, a ring just berely bigger that the ball (a rock wrapped in leather)

The losing team was sacrficed to the gods.

(although some claim it was the winning team that got sacrificed--it was a great honor)

Board games. The Egyptians played Senet about 5,000 years ago. Although the rules have been lost, it is said to be similar to the african game of Mancala (also been around for a long long time) You can actually find Mancala baords, there is a revival of old non-western board games. It is played on a board with holes, four pebbles to a hole. Object is to gather the pieces and place them in your goal. Not going to post the entire set of rules here, hehe.

Chess, a stated above, began in India a couple thousand years ago. The modern version, as we know it, acheived its form in the early 1800's I believe, so if it was in Europe in the middle ages, probably was very different.

The Romans played dice, made out of bone or ivory.

The game of buzkashi was a central theme for the book by Joseph Kessel (1898 - 1979), "Les Cavaliers". It was later made into a movie that premiered in 1970, called "The Horsemen" and starring Jack Palance in the best role of his life, with Omar Sharif for support.

It is interesting that the most riveting scene in the movie (for me, anyway, the aged Horseman putting himself together piece by piece, literally, first thing in the morning) is a faithful reproduction of that scene in the book. I wonder how hard that was to write?