Roman Games

Test your skills in ancient Roman game, such as Ludus Latrunculorum, against a Roman legionary soldier.

A Roman legionary reenactor in full lorica segmentata armour, red tunic and gladius stands at the Roman Army Museum, overlooking the Hadrian's Wall landscape at Magna Roman Fort, Northumberland.

Play ancient Roman games such as Ludus Latrunculorum with our Roman legion, ask our Roman legionary reenactor about the kit he carried on the Wall, and discover more about life in a Roman fort.

Play ancient Roman games on a replica of one of the Vindolanda Trust gaming boards.
Meet a Roman legionary in full kit and ask him about life on the Wall
Visit the ongoing archaeological excavations at Magna Roman Fort
Chat with our archaeologists and volunteers in the trenches
Follow the dig between visits with our Dig Diary

The Vindolanda Trust has the largest collection of Roman gaming boards in Roman Britain and using a 3D printed replica, developed with Newcastle University, you can play on a the same gaming board the soldiers living on Hadrian’s Wall would have played on!

An archaeological find showing a flat stone slab with a grid of carved lines forming rows and columns of squares, resembling a gaming board, photographed next to a trowel at an excavation site. — Roman gaming board excavated at Vindolanda in 2019. Have the chance to play a Roman game on a replica of this gaming board!