Lymington Dir AUGSEPT 22 (1) (1)

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Lymingtonu3aAnyone forcardsorboardgames?Lymingtonu3ahas anumberofmember-ledgroups forthosewho enjoycardand boardgames,andwould be gladtohelpnew groups tostart up too.Bridge is widelyplayedaroundLymington, and Lymington u3awouldlike to have its ownbridgegroup ifanyone is interested.Canasta (Spanish for "basket")isacardgame of therummy family of games. Itwasdevised by attorney SegundoSanchez Santos andhis Bridge partner,architect AlbertoSerrato in Montevideo,Uruguayin1939, in an attempttodesignatime-efficient game thatwas asengaging as Bridge.Rummy: TheMexican game knownas‘Conquian’issaid to be the originofallformsofthe rummy game. It is agamewith afourhundred-year-old historyandit wasplayed mainly in Spain andMexico. Rummy is agroup of gamesbasedonmatchingcards of thesamerank or sequenceand samesuit.Whist is aclassic English trick-takingcardgame which waswidelyplayed in the18th and19thcenturies. Althoughtherulesare simple,there is scopeforstrategicplay.Mahjong:Asmentionedinarecent article,this game uses 144tilesand is played likeRummy. JosephP.Babcock,ofthe StandardOil Company, Suzhou, collectedand interpretedthe variationsofthe game fromChina.Hearranged for Arabic numeralstobeengraved on thetileswhenin1920 he importedsets of tiles to theUSA. Hesimplifiedthegameand introducedastandardset of rules, giving us the game of Mahjongthat we know today.Scrabble is aword-buildingboard gamewell-knowntomostpeople, greatfor exercisingthelittle greycells.Lookingfor stimulating and social activities?Whynot join Lymingtonu3a –justgotoourwebsite at u3asites.org.uk/lymingtonTheLymington and DistrictHistorical SocietyWe welcomenew membersorguests. AnnualMembership£12 Guests £4 foreachmeeting.OurseasonrunsfromSeptember to March.Meetingsareheldonthe last Friday of themonth,at7.15p.m. in GatesHall,Lymington CommunityCentre.Meetingsare also on Zoom andourwebsitefor membersRussian cannon, captured atSebastopol 1855, in NewStreetDETAILSOFNEXTSEASONCAN BE FOUNDONOURWEBSITE SOONwww.ladhs.co.uk Email: membership@ladhs.co.ukTheRailwayClub of theNewForest meetsat7.30pm–Brockenhurst Village HallAugust–no meetingFriday30thSeptember :TheRailway Clubofthe NewForestmeetsat“The Dean Forest Railway”byPeter Adams.Visitors most welcome.www.railwayclubofthenewforest.orgBackgammon is the mostwidespreadmember of the largefamilyoftablegamesplayed with counters anddice onthecharacteristic tableboardswith 24longtriangles. Thefamilyofgamesonthis boarddateback nearly 5,000 yearsin Mesopotamiaand Persia,whilsttheearliestrecord of thebasic gameplayrulesofmodernbackgammondatesfrom 17thcentury Please mention England. TheLymington Directorywhen responding to advertisements 29
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