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Culture Game

Enter a living archive of traditional play, explore cultures through games, and collect passport stamps as you learn.

Plays 18,290,693
Duels 534,844
World record 899
01Select a culture

Use the atlas to choose a marked country.

02Learn the tradition

Read the archive entry and receive a passport card.

03Play the game

Try the Shagai showcase and collect a stamp.

A living archive of traditional play

ONE WORLD · MANY CULTURES · COUNTLESS GAMES

Games Across Time

Trace the games that travelled through generations. Explore the objects, stories and rituals that still connect people today.

01 Interactive atlas
02 Featured collection

Four games. Four histories.

03

THE CONNECTION

The rules change. The instinct to play does not.

Compare how strategy, ritual and community appear in games created thousands of kilometres apart.

04 A journey through time
PASTOrigins

Where the game emerged and what materials people used.

THENTradition

How families, communities and ceremonies kept it alive.

NOWConnection

See the game through video, animation and a digital 3D artefact.

Games Across Time Built for cultural connection · Hackathon prototype
The interactive atlas

SELECT A MARKED TERRITORY

Hover to preview · click to travel into a culture

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YOUR JOURNEY 0 / 24 CULTURES DISCOVERED

CULTURAL INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Mongolia

Traditional game

Shagai

Shagai are the anklebones of sheep, used for centuries across the Mongolian steppe for games, fortune-telling and teaching children to count and observe.

Before you begin, discover how your name appears in Mongolian.
Before you play

HOW TO PLAY

Shagai

Four anklebones, four possible landings. Learn what each position means before your first throw.

Mongolia · Shagai
◈ Object viewer
Drag to rotate
Object
Shagai · sheep anklebone
Material
Bone, sometimes dyed or weighted
Significance
Used in games, divination and teaching across the Mongolian steppe.
◈ The throw

Click to cast all four anklebones onto the felt.

ARCHIVE COMPLETE

You have experienced Shagai — Mongolia.

MN GAMES ACROSS TIME
Game completed
Shagai
Country
Mongolia
Date
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A short reflection: across cultures, simple objects — bones, seeds, shells — became tools for chance, memory and connection.

BEFORE YOU TRAVEL ON...

A quick cultural question

Mongolia · Shagai

What did you just discover?

The cultural archive

THE CULTURAL ARCHIVE

Games you've discovered across the world.

0 / 24 CULTURES DISCOVERED

YOUR JOURNEY ACROSS TIME

You explored:

0Countries
0Traditional games
0Continents

YOUR DISCOVERIES

Every game tells a story. Thanks for travelling across time.

THE IDEA

We do not just archive games. We let people encounter them.

Games Across Time uses an interactive map, short documentary clips, animated rules and digital 3D artefacts to turn cultural history into something visitors can explore rather than simply read.

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