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OCR: Games for laugh at the local The pub has been Britain's entertainment pue social centre for hundreds of years. Today it is pool darts quizzes and the array of electronic games that make up the bulk of games people play in pubs. But five hundred years ago customers would have been more likely to enjoy an illicit session of dice tackle an outdoor throwing game like Quoits or sit down for a game of Back <gammon. In fact, Backgammon is one of the oldest pub games coming C England in the 11th century, via returming Crusaders quickly became popular taverns, helped by the gambling that attached itself to Laws were even introduced to try and stamp out the gaming but they did nothing to dent its popularity 5 20 The test of time 19 Not every game has so successfully stood the test of time, you visit ...