The Game of Twelve Lines
Played across the Roman Empire, from forum steps to bathhouses

ROLL & RACE

Roll three dice and march your fifteen men along the three rows of twelve squares. Bear all fifteen off the final row before the Legate does.

STRIKE & STACK

A lone man is a target: land on him and he restarts from the beginning. Two men on one square make a wall no enemy may enter.

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XII SCRIPTA
Rome’s tavern classic. Race fifteen men down the twelve lines.
You 0/15 off
The Legate 0/15 off
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Waiting: 15
Legate waiting: 15

Your turn. Roll the dice.

HOW TO PLAY
XII Scripta — Roman Game of Twelve Lines (modern reconstruction)

THE BOARD

Thirty-six squares in three rows of twelve, walked as one winding path. Both players race the same direction with fifteen men each. All men start off the board.

ROLLING

Roll three dice each turn and play them one at a time, in any order. Tap a die to choose it, then tap a highlighted man. While any of your men wait off the board, you must bring them in first: a die enters a man on square 1 to 6, matching its value.

HITS & WALLS

Landing on a square where the enemy has exactly one man sends that man back off the board to re-enter. A square holding two or more enemy men is a wall you cannot land on. Stack your own men to build safe ground.

BEARING OFF

Once all fifteen of your men reach the final six squares, dice bear them off the end of the track. An oversized roll may only be spent on your rearmost man. First to bear off all fifteen wins.

YOU WIN
All fifteen men have marched off the twelve lines. Rome salutes you.
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