International Board Games Day. World Tabletop Day is back in Russia

First International Day board games or TableTop Day took place on March 30, 2013, proclaimed by Will Wheatan and named after his tabletop network show TableTop.

On April 29-30, 2018, Russia's largest publishing house of board games, Hobby World, will give residents of more than 50 cities large “Play With Us” game arcades. Tabletop fans from different regions will be able to officially celebrate their favorite holiday - International TableTop Day.

These days, fans of the board hobby will be able to play the most popular games from all over the world, which have become classics gaming industry- “Carcassonne”, “Colonizers”, “Munchkin” and Ticket to ride, as well as test new products that have recently appeared in Russia - “Fury of Dracula”, “Rising Sun”, “Epic Battles-3” and many others. Both beginners and experienced players of all ages will be helped to find entertainment to suit their taste and mood. A team of professional game masters will help you understand the rules of tabletop battles. In addition, guests of the event will have the opportunity to purchase their favorite games at a discount.

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On April 29, 2018, board game publishing house Hobby World will give residents of more than 40 cities large “Play with us” game libraries. Tabletop fans from different regions will be able to officially celebrate their holiday - International Tabletop Day.

For the first time International Board Games Day or Tabletop Day took place on March 30, 2013, hosted by Wil Wheaton and named after his network tabletop show Tabletop.

On this day, fans of the board hobby will be able to play the most popular games from around the world that have become classics of the gaming industry - “”, “ Colonizers", " " And Ticket to ride, as well as test new products that have recently appeared in Russia - “ Fury of Dracula», « », « Noria», « Leaf fall", " " and many others. Both beginners and experienced players of all ages will be helped to find entertainment to suit their taste and mood. A team of professional game masters will help you understand the rules of tabletop battles. In addition, guests of the event will have the opportunity to purchase their favorite games at a discount.

10 facts about board games

The first board games appeared approximately 5,000 years ago! They were played by residents of the Middle East; it was a favorite pastime of the pharaohs. And of course, board games have evolved significantly since ancient times. Let's see how.

* Nowadays, not just hundreds, but thousands of new board games are released every year, and they are all completely different. In addition to creating new games, many board games are localized, that is, published in other countries in their language.

* You can select games by the number of participants, by age category, based on the principle of impact (for example, for the development fine motor skills in children). There are also games for companies, for parties, family, strategic, economic, there are even games for lovers and games for one.

* Also gaining popularity cooperative games, For example, " Arkham Horror», « Zombicide" The essence of the game is that a group of friends plays against a box. Against the box, Karl! Many people are very shocked by the fact that a cardboard box can win. Box. Maybe. Win. It was hard to use those three words in one sentence, but that's how it is.

* Board games have their own Oscar - the Spiel des Jahres - an annual prestigious German award for board games. Only a nomination for an award can increase sales by 5-10 times, and a victory... In addition to the German award, there are many others, for example, the International Gamers Awards, the Deutscher Spiele Preis.

* Appeared in games different types mechanic, in addition to dice rolls and card games– Boardgamegeek lists 51 types of board game mechanics, such as take and deliver, chain/network building, secret goals, card selection, trading. The game can combine several types of mechanics at once.

* Recently, board games are often used as a tool for developing erudition, creative skills, spatial thinking, and abstract thinking in both adults and children. Games have appeared to develop certain skills in children - with the help of boards you can train memory, the ability to distinguish colors, name objects, and much more. In various medical institutions, games are even used to stop the development of dementia in older people.

* Various board game championships are held around the world. The games in which championships are held are very popular all over the world. For example, " Carcassonne», « Colonizers», « Munchkin" First, the player can take part in a local, district or city championship, and if he wins, then the next level awaits him - this is how he can become a world champion.

* Also, international festivals and exhibitions of board games are held annually around the world, for example, the world’s largest exhibition, Internationale Spieltage SPIEL, is held in the German city of Essen. And in Russia there is a grandiose festival of board games and home entertainment - “Igrokon”.

* One of the most famous board games was invented by a dentist. And one banker released more than 500 games! Yes, board games are invented by ordinary people. You too can come up with a board game, although it’s not a fact that it will become popular, but we believe in you!

* Many games are so popular that they are released with add-ons that expand the player experience and make the game more exciting and replayable. In the game series " Carcassonne"About 20 games and add-ons have already been released, and the series " Munchkin"has about 50 different extras, games, boosters.

On April 29 and 30, Tabletop Day was celebrated - world day of board games. On this day, people all over the world unite and play board games. This holiday is very young.The first International Tabletop Day was founded in 2013 by Wil Wheaton, host of the web show about board games TableTop. Since then, this initiative has been supported year after year by publishers and ordinary players from different parts of the Earth, getting together on the same day all over the world and playing board games. Every year the geography of the holiday expands significantly.
Central Library named after. A.S. Pushkina was not spared this event of global scale! But first things first. Yulia Novikova and Maria Pyshmintseva introduce us to the history of board games.



It's no secret that the board game industry has experienced explosive growth in recent years. In 2012, The Guardian called our time the "golden era of board games" in a story that year after year, the board games market has increased by up to 40%, becoming one of the most funded categories on Kickstarter ( an English-language platform aimed at developing and supporting creative initiatives of people from all over the world. Every enterprising person can post a project (design, music, cinema, etc.) and receive funding).

But when did the first board games appear?The hobby of board games, which, however, were played not only on the table, but also on the ground and on the floor, initially arose as fun for the elite of the Roman Empire, and then spread throughout Europe thanks to the Roman legions.
The Dutch philosopher Joseph Huizenga deepened this theory. According to Huizenga, people turn the whole world into a game, and a person is only a person because he knows how to play. According to this theory, it is quite clear why board games originated so long ago that it is no longer possible to find out where this fun came from.

Senet is considered the oldest board game. This entertainment was popular as early as 4000 BC in Ancient Egypt and its rules were similar to checkers.
Senet
Three thousand years BC were invented dice, and with them the famous backgammon. Backgammon is a checkers-type game that appeared in the Arab East and has survived to this day, although in a modified form. Back then, by the way, backgammon was played according to slightly different rules.

At this time in India they were already playing chaupar, also a checkers-type game. It is known that at the same time a game like checkers was born in Spain and Russia.

Chaupar
Two thousand years ago, the board game Go, famous to this day, was born. Go and Go-moku are checker-type games in which pieces do not move around the board, but are only placed and removed from it. Appeared in ancient China and have remained to this day, with minimal changes.

Go
The rules of the ancient game were very similar to modern ones: the game board already consisted of 64 cells, the checkers were, as now, white and black. True, they could walk, like soldiers advancing on the enemy, only forward. If one of the checkers broke through behind enemy lines, it gained advantages by becoming a queen and could lead the attack in a non-direct direction. In 1973, an English checkers player of Polish origin, who remained in history under the nickname Pole, proposed increasing the checkers board to 100 squares and slightly changing the rules of the game - hundred-square (Polish) checkers appeared. Widespread use and the absence of discrepancies in the rules of the game have made this version of checkers international.

1870 was the year of mahjong. Around this year, the famous gambling, using dice. In 1934, Charles Darrow introduced the world to his famous monopoly. Back then it was an economics board game, something like economic strategy. Subsequently, thousands of varieties of this game appeared. It is believed that the reason for the creation of this game was the Great Depression of the 1930s in the United States.

Mahjong
In 1938 The world saw famous game Scrabble. In Russia, she is better known as “Erudite”. However, an analogue of this game can be considered a Russian game called “Balda”.


The game “Mafia” was invented in the spring of 1986 by Dmitry Davydov, a student at the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University, a native of Kamensk-Uralsky. At first it was played in the dormitories, classrooms and corridors of Moscow State University, but after some university students spent their holidays in summer student camps, where students from other Soviet universities vacationed, the game, along with new players, began to spread to other educational institutions of the USSR.

Mafia

In 1998, the game “Mafia” and its European prototype, the game “Killer,” were used by the Kaliningrad Higher School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the course “Visual Psychodiagnostics.” The games formed the basis of the teaching aid, with the help of which the cadets’ skills were developed in relation to various techniques and methods of reading body language.

In China, "Mafia" is used to treat gambling people from gaming addiction, and in the USA - as a means of re-educating “difficult” teenagers in Christian summer camps. Also, with the help of “Mafia,” Japanese high school students are preparing for the role of future jurors.

The mafia is recognized as one of the " The 50 Most Historically and Culturally Significant Games Since 1800».

Recent decades in the history of board games are marked by such games as: “Colonizers”, “Citadels”, “Carcassonne”, “Lionheart”, “Discoverers”, etc.

Central Library named after. A.S. Pushkina was not spared this event of global scale!A large toy library from our partners “We Know We Play” is located in the new halls of Pushkin. Guests were treated to board games for every taste, tournaments and, of course, book exhibitions, pleasant communication and gifts.

There were " book games", for example, based on the work of George Martin - "Game of Thrones". Large tournaments were held for two board games at once - “Imaginarium” and “Colonizers”.

“Imaginarium” is a very simple and interesting game in which you need to come up with associations to unusual pictures from the box. “Colonizers,” on the other hand, require not only imagination, but also the ability to survive on a desert island. Players playing the role of the first settlers must quickly develop their colony, gaining the coveted 12 victory points.





The organizers selected games for both beginners who came to the game library for the first time, as well as for board game connoisseurs and real professionals who are not so easy to surprise. Everyone was happy! For four hours, cheerful voices did not stop, and all the tables were filled with players.
The library guests had a great time, and this is confirmed by a review from one of the Board Game Day visitors: “ Game library, arranged by the store board games “We Know We Play” plunged me headlong into this bright and colorful “World of Board Games”. For almost four hours I tirelessly rolled dice, brought down races, laid out new power-up cards and attacked enemy planets. During this time, I turned into a naive child who sincerely believes that now he is a malicious dictator in a galactic war, and now he is a harmful hobbit who leaves inaccessible holes everywhere. Perhaps this is the magic of board games, they rejuvenate you, they develop your imagination, they bring you closer to complete strangers. During the time that I spent at the game library, I met a huge number of people, made new friends with similar interests, learned to play games completely unfamiliar to me, and all this thanks to the store... no, the store is somehow small... Thanks To the board game society "We Know We Play""».
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