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> No written rules for this game survived antiquity… a comprehensive digital platform… that can model and simulate thousands of historic board games.

Model and simulate based on what?

> Nine game configurations matched the wear criteria.

So their idea was to generate candidate rulesets, have AI try to figure out rational play, then see which pieces would be moved most often and match that to the forensic evidence?



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