Drilled beans used as dice dictated gameplay, but the exact rules of “entry and movement” remain unknown, as Parlett notes in the Oxford History of Board Games. Among the Aztecs, Patolli held ...

One of the patolli game boards found in Campeche. Photo from Felix Camacho Zamora and INAH The game involved bean dice and a board, with the likely goal being to move pieces around the track ...

When a player moved all six pieces around the board before their opponent, they won the round. Patolli was a gambling game, so winners got to take wagered items such as blankets or food from the ...

Possible game board from Ain Ghazal, a roughly 8,000-year-old Neolithic ... Numerous games are known from the Aztec Empire and other past civilizations of Central America. Among them, patolli required ...

The game involved bean dice and a board, with the likely goal being to move pieces around the track, a 2021 study from the journal Latin American Antiquity said. Patolli boards varied in shape but ...