Games

The games that have been pictured on tomb walls have their analogies in modern ones. Odd and even, morra, and draughts are the most frequent. Shooting with arrows at a mark, throwing javelins at a block of wood and a form of *à la grâce* also occur. Many draught-boards and men have been found, but it is impo ible to recover the rules of the game or to know the way in which it was played. It is evident from the variety of boards discovered that there were many ways. Mora is the name given now in Italy to a game also played by the old Romans, which consists in one person suddenly holding up a certain number of fingers for an instant, the other player having to gue the number. Games played with dice belong to late times. (See Sports .)