Gwyddbwyll Grove

Gwyddbwyll

An old Welsh game whose rules have been lost. A present-day grove of games, trees, memory and play.

A physical five-by-five Gwyddbwyll board with wooden counters, cards, dice and Ogham Grove materials.

01 / The Botanical Games

Twenty trees.
Twenty games.

Games are being discovered one tree at a time through making, play and experiment.

Enter the games
The Inner Grove board game, cards, counters and rule book.

02 / The Inner Grove

Further in

A different game, shaped around the places and sixteen Grove cards of the Ogham Grove.

Enter the Inner Grove
What might a game of
wood-sense mean now?

03 / The question

What is Gwyddbwyll?

The surviving references leave a compelling absence: the game is named, but its rules do not survive.

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