Play Tablut online

Play Tablut Online.

The Lappish board game, Tablut, online.

Rules in English.
Regler på svenska (Foteviken's Museum).

Experimental.

John C. Ashton in USA did an interesting analysis directly from the Latin diary of Carl von Linné. Ashton suspected the game rules in Anglo-American countries to be erroneous due to a chain of translation errors and misunderstandings and therefore started over again with a fresh translation of the Latin text. The findings were published in the research article Linnaeus's Game of Tablut and its Relationship to the Ancient Viking Game Hnefatafl.

You can try out the Ashton rules here:

Nicolas Cartier from France wrote this article on Tablut in French and permitted it to be published here.
The tablut rules deducted by Nicolas Cartier, translated into English.

The Lappish board game Tablut is a descendant of the Viking board game Hnefatafl. Tablut was played in Lapland until 1700-1800-years. On an expedition in Lapland in 1732, the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné saw Samis play Tablut, and he noted the game rules in his diary. Thanks to this diary, today the game rules for Tablut are known, and thereby also for Hnefatafl.

Try also the Viking board game, Hnefatafl.

Updated 7.2.2013