Games Britannia

During are lecture we watched a documentary that is part of a three part series called game Britannia presented by Benjamin Woolley the episode we watch was called dicing with destiny
he spoke about how games no matter from what age whether from 1st century Britain to the Victorian age all the every game was played to benefit the player in some way whether it is played to give the player a sense of fun or whether the player is winning something that will end up benefitting them some how looking at these ancient games and then comparing them to modern games there is really no difference in the reasoning people play games whether it be for a sense of reward or just for fun 

He also talks about games that have a lot of choice involved within them and a single choice can change the whole tide of the game in your favour or your opponents
He also talks about the well known game snakes and ladders that is a old family favourite once represented a Hindu journey to enlightenment  and he explains how he sees this as a perfect analogy for how the games sacred energy which once imbued the game had eventually disappeared away by commercialisation