I remembered after posting this that I have a book from Klutz that's called "Board Games." It lists when games came out:

Checkers -- France in the 12th century
Fox and Geese -- It says hundreds of years before 1800 (how's that for vague? [img]wink.gif[/img] )
Go -- Japan, 7th century
Hex -- 1940s
Brax -- 100 years old
Mancala -- Thousands of years old
Nine Men's Morris -- 3,000 years old
Backgammon -- 2,000 years old
There are other games, but they don't tell when they were invented. The site in my first post is more helpful than this, though this book provides rules and might work as a guide if you want to make little wooden versions for your dolls.

Unfortunately, they don't say when the games made their way to the US, though. And the site I found is a UK site. [img]wink.gif[/img]

I'm surprised AG doesn't have more board games than just Addy's. It seems like little girls would have lots of fun pretending to play with their dolls, or having a friend and her doll come over the play one of the games mentioned in this thread.

Jane, that game is mentioned in one of the AG party books! It looks like so much fun.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 16, 2003 11:53 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>