Draughts (a.k.a. Checkers, et al.)
~3000 BC-ish (~1980 version) / Strategy board game / 2 players / Don't know where it's from
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We all know Junior Chess, though I needed a quick refresher, as I only had limited childhood experience playing the game with the boring pawns from my dad's Spears chess set, and was impatient to upgrade to the expansion that added more interesting horses and stuff.
My daughter's only getting raised with a la-di-da authentic version because I was after a sturdy Spears chess board to get some use out of my ooh-get-her gold-plated Star Trek chessmen and no one was selling those separately. So far, it's ended up mainly being used for makeshift farmyard animal bowling. The hardwood clacking is satisfying.
