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Thread: The game of GAITERS
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ardmacha
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Has anyone come across a game called Gaiters,never commercially produced,but in the 1970s obtainable from Canterbury Cathedral, where a lay clerk had invented it ?
It was a gloriously complicated game based on Monopoly and played with a dice and cut out figures were used to move around a very large board.The first throw of the dice began your clerical career by condemning you to be either High,Low or Middle and thereafter you could only do those things pertaining to the three "schools". The aim was to be enthroned on the throne of St Augustine. I wonder if anyone ever bought it and had the fun some of us had with it back in the heady '70s
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Stephen
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Must admit I've not heard of it.....Monopoly, yes, and Diplomacy ( you can have Poland but I want Czechoslovakia and no way is he getting Latvia....!) oh and Go which is quite good fun you go around the world and collect souvenirs - but I haven't come across gaiters......
Some years back someone started a festal game of Mornington Crescent on these boards the aim of which was to get to The Blessed Sacrament, IIRC! but I'm not sure I'd recommend reviving it as it nearly drove Our Genial Hosts round the twist ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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TurquoiseTastic
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There is a game called "Credo" which is all about the council of Nicaea - you have to get your chosen doctrinal statements into the Nicene Creed by winning over sufficient numbers of bishops and laity...
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seasick
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As a thread about a game, this is a better fit for heaven. Going up!
seasick, Eccles host
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ardmacha
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# 16499
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Zappa,
The problem is that it was never properly published and printed, it was beautifully and calligraphically written and drawn by hand, with great skill, especially the cut out figures of the clergy. It was very funny and terribly complicated.I suppose that it could be photocopied. I seem to remember that the inventor was called Peter Giles and I think that he was a Lay clerk in Canterbury, but it's all a long time ago !
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Nowadays he could just email a few jpgs tomGermany...
A couple of my gaming friends have designed their own board games, and had the components run up by this lot.
They're in Nuremberg, so I like think of Meisterspieler tapping out counters on dinky little anvils while singing about gold.
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St Everild
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It sounds wonderful - I have never heard of it before!
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Dan BD
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Fantastic! A game which no doubt were it to exist would be banned from all theological college common rooms...
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Chorister
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There's a brilliant game on the market called 'Make-your-own-Opoly' which is like Monopoly except you can customise it to your own situation. I was given a copy for Christmas and am making it into a version based on my own town. But there is no reason why you couldn't customise it to fit a church / denominational scenario if you wished. Worth having a try!
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Spike
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Originally posted by ardmacha:
Zappa,
The problem is that it was never properly published and printed, it was beautifully and calligraphically written and drawn by hand, with great skill, especially the cut out figures of the clergy. It was very funny and terribly complicated.I suppose that it could be photocopied. I seem to remember that the inventor was called Peter Giles and I think that he was a Lay clerk in Canterbury, but it's all a long time ago !
A quick Google search found Dr Peter Giles who was a Lay Clerk at Canterbury in the 70s. Could this be the same bloke?
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ardmacha
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I imagine it is. Maybe he could be contacted and the dust blown off the old boxes.Exiting !
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Boadicea Trott
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It sounds brilliant fun. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Lyda*Rose
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Originally posted by Spike:
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Originally posted by ardmacha:
Zappa,
The problem is that it was never properly published and printed, it was beautifully and calligraphically written and drawn by hand, with great skill, especially the cut out figures of the clergy. It was very funny and terribly complicated.I suppose that it could be photocopied. I seem to remember that the inventor was called Peter Giles and I think that he was a Lay clerk in Canterbury, but it's all a long time ago !
A quick Google search found Dr Peter Giles who was a Lay Clerk at Canterbury in the 70s. Could this be the same bloke?
He looks quite a bit like Michael Douglas.
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