Royal Game of Ur - Free 3D Print Model

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Rob Manders

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Description

This is a modern recreation of the Royal Game of Ur, and Ancient Sumerian game played around 4,500 years ago. This particular board is based on this example in the British Museum.

The board comes in two pieces and snaps together without any glue or fixings. Simple push the two halves together as shown in the images above.

There is also a drawer in the end to store the (fully 3D printable) pieces and dice.

V1.1 Update:
As requested by a few members in the community, retention clips have now been added to hold the drawer in place. This should make the set easier to transport by ensuring the drawer doesn't fall out on it's own.

Existing sets can be retrofitted by printing the updated Board Secion A and a new drawer. All other parts remain unchanged.
V1.2 Update:
The drawer has been modified to recess the dividers, providing room for a set of rules. Existing sets can be retrofitted by printing a new drawer.

The original drawer has been retained in the profile for those who prefer the full height dividers.

Printable rules have also been included with this update as a downloadable PDF for you to include in your set.

I would like to thank Paddy, creator of royalur.net, for kindly allowing me to use and share his rules and illustrations.
V1.3 Update:
Added small ribs to the bottom of the draw to give a little more grip to assist with opening.

The rules for the game can be found at royalur.net, or as a PDF download with this model here on Makerworld.

You can watch this video with Tom Scott and Irving Finkel:

If you like this model you may also be interested in my Portable Go Set.

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Royal Game of Ur Rules.pdf

Comment & Rating (39)

@jujj

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I adapted one of the rules PDFs into a ruleset that was shown in that Tom Scott's video. It can be found here: https://oummg.com/dump/Royal%20Game%20of%20Ur.pdf . What I did is to print from Microsoft Edge in Landscape mode, one page at a time to print the rulebook two-sided. (re-feed the printed page to the printer for page 2) Then cut the sides of the rulebook and double-fold to fit inside the drawer. Printed really well. I combined the objects in the print to two plates for X1C. Here's some thoughts after playing the game: - the drawer does not lock in place, but freely slides out from underneath, making carrying the game prone to dropping all the pieces on the floor. Maybe a "bumps and slots" design might be able to make the drawer click and lock in place? I did successfully mitigate this by stuffing the rulebook inside the drawer, this created enough friction for the drawer to stay in place. - like mentioned in my other comment, if the design wanted to accommodate a rulebook, maybe those two inside walls could be recessed so that a rulebook would fit in better. - The pawns have the five points only on one side. I wonder if it might be a good idea to make the five dots two-sided on each pawn to make them agnostic to which side is up? That way they would be simpler to orient on the game board. - The biggest difficulty we found is that given the sharp pyramid shape, the dice are hard to pick up. This makes the game hard to play, unless one is able to play against a table edge, and always pick the dice up by sliding them off the table to drop them in hand. However this then makes rolling the dice a bit hazardous, because one then wants to roll them close to the table edge, so they become easier to accidentally fly off the table. - To ease the difficult picking up the dice, I ended up printing two sets of dice, colored differently, so that each player could have their own. Otherwise this is a fantastic game, though the difficulty with the dice makes a bit of a conundrum. Our test gameplay session degenerated into a tedious dice exercise. I wonder if there might be some way to help this - maybe making the dice rounder, or bigger, or slightly concave for thumb and index finger to be able to grab them? Not quite sure. Nevertheless, this is a really entertaining print, thanks!

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@robmanders

Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do about the drawer and see if I can make a locking version. I maybe able to add some spring clips or something which will be a bit more robust that some bumps, but with limited space that might be a challenge. Might just have to go with bumps. I get what you mean about the dice. They were modelled in the ones in the Tom Scott video but I might see if I can make something a bit easier to pick up. Either that or slide them off the table into your hand maybe. If you have any suggestions or come up with something please do share it. Your print looks to have come out nicely. Did you have any issues with the print or assembly at all?

@jujj

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Replying to @robmanders :

No problems with print or assembly. The lock-in design for the two board pieces is great and sturdy, nicely done on that. Also great design on placing the multicolored front face of the board against the print plate, printing with the Textured PEI Plate gives a nice surface to the multicolored board squares. I printed the dice and pawns from this set: https://makerworld.com/en/models/498500 and observed that the dice from there are a bit easier to pick up (still maybe not perfectly easy like regular dice would be).. maybe since they are a bit larger, and there is a groove on each edge that a thumb and finger can semi-serviceably grab. However, the end bits of their dice are sharp as caltrops, could have used a tiny bit of smoothing. :) Another thing I observed is that the rounding on the edges on the pawns makes them a bit difficult to pick up as well, and the sharp edged pawns from the other set makes them quite a bit easier to grab. Absolutely no pressure whatsoever to further tweak the design for the sake of "peer review", 5/5 job already.

@robmanders

Replying to @jujj :

@jujj I've just pushed an update to add some retention clips to the drawer. Sorry it took a while to get around to it! Feel free to retrofit your model and let me know how you get on.

@litlnemo

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Excellent model. Made this for a Christmas present, and now I have to make one for myself :)

@mteomarch

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My son is studying Sumerian at school, and his teacher made him this cardboard game. When we saw it here on MakerWorld, we printed it right away. Two copies, one for the teacher too! Great job!

@popeen

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This model came out fantastic, thank you! I also created some binary dice in a modern format to fit in the drawer along the original.

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@user_2479506730

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Love this game, my brother showed us this awhile back, we play it all the time, and with this board it makes it even better!

@Kelliche

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perfect and quick!

@impctr

Does the drawer lock so that it doesn't open by itself spilling all the content when carrying the box?

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@robmanders

It doesn't at the moment, but this has been mentioned before so I will likely add this at some point.

@robmanders

Replying to @robmanders :

@impctr I've just pushed an update to add some retention clips to the drawer. Sorry it took a while to get around to it! Feel free to retrofit your model and let me know how you get on.

@impctr

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cooking with gas now!

@jujj

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So wonderful that you have done this! My uncle got excited by the Tom Scott video, printing this for him. Seems like there were a couple of other versions on MakerWorld, but this looks the best since it has a drawer to keep all the pieces self-contained. Now while printing, I need to figure out which ruleset to print for this. I'm trying to get a ruleset paper print to fold and fit inside the drawer. The drawer has three compartments, and it looks like the internal edges separating compartments have the same wall height as the outer edges. I wonder if it would make sense to ever so slightly lower the height of those two internal compartment separators to help a printed ruleset fold and fit well also inside the drawer? (or maybe it will already fit, will have to see) For printing on Bambu X1C, I assembled the board pieces on one plate, and the pieces on another plate, to print in two platefuls. That seems like it'll reduce print time by maybe half an hour on filament switching. Thank you so much for designing this, love your attention to this :)

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@robmanders

Hi @jujj. Thank you for the feedback. Based on your comments, I've revised the design to recess the inner dividers to fit a set of rules. I've also produced a printable rule set that fits on two sheets of A4 (printed double-sided) which, if folded appropriately, should fit nicely in the recess. This has been uploaded to Makerworld as a PDF download with this model. This is in addition to some changes adding retaining clips to the drawer so it doesn't fall out when you're moving it around. I hope you like it, please let me know how you get on. :)

@mteomarch

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My son is studying Sumerian at school, and his teacher made him this cardboard game. When we saw it here on MakerWorld, we printed it right away. Two copies, one for the teacher too! Great job!

@Sipmetti8

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V1.3 - 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

absolutely stellar print. everything about it is spot on and amazingly well made. can’t wait to play with friends and family! I printed mine with wood pla, because of how it expands I had to decrease the tray to 99% size, in case anyone was thinking the same. I also changed the infill to gyroid.

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