John Meador
Plutarch
Perhaps not as inventor per se but surely associated with games as such?:
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2005-August/019153.html
-John
Ross G Caldwell said:Thoth in medieval literature
Hermes-Mercury-Woden-Thoth-Moses...
Nothing about Moses-Thoth-Mercury-Hermes-Woden inventing games here though. Relation to Tarot's invention? No. Interesting in its own right? Certainly. But even Bernardino and the following preachers of the Diabolique Liturgy didn't mention such conflations. They could not have been common knowledge, but they might have been uncommon knowledge.
Ross
Perhaps not as inventor per se but surely associated with games as such?:
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2005-August/019153.html
-John