Tabula (game) Tabula were reconstructed in the 19th century by Becq de Fouquières based upon this epigram. The game was played on a board nearly identical to a modern backgammon board with 24 points, 12 on each side. Two players had 15 pieces each, and moved them in opposing directions around the board, according to the roll of three dice. A piece resting alone in a space on the board was vulnerable to being hit. Hitting a blot, reentering a piece from the bar, and bearing off, all had the same rules as today. The only differences with modern backgammon were the
Which Witch? (board game) witches: Ghoulish Gertie, Wanda The Wicked and Glenda The Good. Drawing a Ghoulish Gertie card instructs player to drop the whammy ball into the chimney; if any player's token is knocked off the track by the ball, it must be returned to the start square for that room. Drawing the Wanda the Wicked card requires that the player's token be replaced with a mouse; a mouse cannot move from its current tile until the same player draws a Glenda The Good card, which allows the player to reclaim the original child token. A version of the game was released as