page_title: Tables (board game)
section_title: Sweden
hierarchical_section_title: Tables (board game) / Sweden
caption_attribution_description: English: Old backgammon game recovered from the Vasa, sunk in 1628.
context_page_description: Tables is a general name given to a class of board games similar to backgammon, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points". Players roll dice to determine the movement of pieces. Tables games are among the oldest known board games, and many variants are played throughout the world.
context_section_description: Bräde or svenskt brädspel ("Swedish tables") is a variant played in Sweden. Players start with all 15 of their checkers on opposite corners of the board, and play around counter-clockwise. Besides bearing off, there are several other ways to win, such as arranging all of one's checkers in certain pre-determined patterns, or by hitting so many checkers that one's opponent can not bring them in again. Additional points are awarded for a victory while one's opponent has checkers on the bar. Brädspel is played without the doubling cube. Interest in brädspel experienced a resurgence following the recovery of a 17th-century board from the wreck of the Vasa.
  
  A game of Tables was also recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose which sank a century earlier in 1545. It is on display at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth.
caption: Brädspel ("board game") game recovered from the Swedish 17th century warship Vasa.
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