 There is no king or kings’ children present in the game – that feature is exclusive to sáhkku.The first description of a game which is certain to be tâb occurred in 1694, that is some decades after Schefferus' book "Lapponia" described the use of sáhkku dice in Sápmi (see below).However, a game assumed to be a predecessor of tâb was mentioned in a poem already in 1310.