This ancient Leng’gui dice game has been used as a teaching tool for millennia. A unique pair of these games is on display at the Museum of Antiquities on the Galat home world. Phenomenally well preserved at over 18,000 cycles old, these items were presented as a gift to the Galatians by Tai’Ling near the end of the Fell Wars. What is most unique about this pair of games is that through the extraordinary efforts of Adar Thelema the dice that give the game its name each have a unique form of quantum entanglement such that paired darbles always orient themselves in exactly the same ways regardless of their distance from one another. One more unique feature of the games on display is that their mats depict a constellation of stars specific to the time when they were made.
This highlights one principal behind the longevity of the game’s popularity in Leng’gui civilization – the games were intended to teach players about the world around them. Thus, even though there are many versions of the game, numerous configurations for the mats and materials used to make them, the unifying principal is that the game can be used to teach art, geometry, astronomy and philosophy in a fun way without burdening the player. For example, the Leng’gui home world is just around 90% water and therefore surprisingly little metal available in its pure form. Consequently, the game was historically played on a fabric scroll or mat specially made to double as darble storage and the darbles were nearly always made of rare pearl or heavy gemstone crystals. The colors of these darbles were intentionally selected to teach color theory and the mat’s sacred geometric symbol was used to teach about the complex interplay between elements of Leng’gui ethics, astronomy and navigation.