🎮 Runner 2D – Astragalus amulets: these three games are still early prototypes
Ongoing educational and museum-oriented project around knucklebones/astragali: school-museum activities, science communication and resources for teachers and museums. The mini-games below are experimental interactive extensions, still to be stabilized and scientifically reviewed.
✍️ Write with the bones — Thread & alphabet
A pierced bone can hide a message. Rotate the astragalus, follow the thread, and write the displayed word in the page language.
Historical basis: Aeneas Tacticus describes a 24-hole astragalus, six holes per face, linked to Greek letters. Here, visual aids and English words are an educational adaptation, not an ancient reconstruction.
Educational prototype
Ancient history
Interactive 3D
Needs improvement / stabilizing
🎲 Roll the bones — Venus, Canis, Senio…
Throw 4 astragali (faces {1,3,4,6}). Game mode (score) or Oracle (symbolic reading).
