Current Events > Doing a Clubhouse Games guide has me going through history and it's funny

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So many of the "first recordings" of these games existing were proclamations by governments that they were banned.

Cards and other games that could be used for gambling. Heck, even golf's first Scotland record was King James II banning it because it distracted from archery.

My favorite so far is hanafuda. Cards came to Japan via the Portuguese and Japan kept banning cards, and locals just changed the cards so they looked different, making them more abstract and looking like art up to the point where we have hanafuda cards, which take a week to explain what each card means to other people.

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