Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

by R. C. Bell
Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

by R. C. Bell

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Overview

There are many authoritative books on card games and chess, but only a handful on the dozens of other games known to mankind. This excellent handbook by R. C. Bell is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world, and one of the two or three finest books ever written on the subject. Originally published in two volumes in the 1960's, it is now available for the first time in a corrected, one-volume edition.
Mr. Bell's encyclopedic work provides the rules and methods of play for 182 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'I (Go), backgammon, Wari, Continental draughts, Pachisi, Japanese chess, Bidou, Domino Loo, Cribbage, and many others. Volume one is divided into chapters devoted to race games, war games, games of position, Mancala games, dice games, and domino games; volume two follows the same arrangement and then proceeds to games with numbers, card games requiring boards, and games requiring manual dexterity. Additional information is furnished on making boards and pieces, and on gaming-counters.
Game players, toymakers, and historians of culture will welcome this guided tour of games from Egypt, Meso-America, the Orient, India, Persia, Rome, Africa, Victorian England, and many other societies. Over 300 illustrations, both photographs and line drawings, add an illuminating counterpoint to the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486238555
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 09/16/2010
Edition description: Rev. ed
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO FIRST EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO SECOND EDITION
ILLUSTRATIONS
GLOSSARY
Chapter One: RACE GAMES
I. CROSS AND CIRCLE RACE GAMES
NYOUT
ZOHN AHL
PATOLLI
PACHISI
LUDO
2. SPIRAL RACE GAMES
THE HYENA GAME
THE ROYAL GAME OF GOOSE
3. SQUARE BOARD RACE GAMES
THAAYAM
4. PEG SCORING BOARDS
THE PALM TREE GAME
5. THE BACKGAMMON GROUP
THE SUMERIAN GAME
THE GAME OF THIRTY SQUARES
LUDUS DUODECIM SCRIPTORUM
TABULA
CHASING THE GIRLS
TOURNE-CASE
SIXE-ACE
FAYELES
BACKGAMMON
Chapter Two: WAR GAMES
I. THE ALQUERQUE GROUP
ALQUERQUE
THE STONE WARRIORS
FIGHTING SERPENTS
THE SIXTEEN SOLDIERS
2. THE CHESS GROUP
SHATURANGA
SHATRANJ
CIRCULAR OR BYZANTINE CHESS
THE COURIER GAME
MODERN INTERNATIONAL CHESS
THE MAHARAJAH AND THE SEPOYS
CHINESE CHESS
THE JUNGLE GAME
3. DRAUGHTS
ENGLISH DRAUGHTS
THE LOSING GAME
DIAGONAL DRAUGHTS
ITALIAN DRAUGHTS
TURKISH DRAUGHTS
REVERSI
CONTINENTAL OR POLISH DRAUGHTS
4. THE TAFL GROUP
FOX AND GEESE
TABULT
SAXON HNEFATAFL
COWS AND LEOPARDS
5. THE LATRUNCULORUM GROUP
SEEGA
HIGH JUMP
LUDUS LATRUNCULORUM
6. RUNNING-FIGHT GAMES
TABLAN
PULUC
Chapter Three: GAMES OF POSITION
I. MORRIS GAMES
NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
THREE MEN'S MORRIS
SIX MEN'S MORRIS
NINE MEN'S MORRIS
2. THREE-IN-A-ROW GAMES
DARA
3. FIVE-IN-A-ROW GAMES
GO-MOKU
HASAMI SHOGI
4. REPLACEMENT GAMES
FIVE FIELD KONO
HALMA
5. TERRITORIAL POSSESSION
WEI-CH'I
6. PATIENCE GAMES
SOLITARE
Chapter Four: MANCALA GAMES
I. TWO-RANK MANCULA
MANKALA'H
PALLANGULI
WARI
2. FOUR-RANK MANCULA
CHISOLO
DICE
Chapter Five: DICE GAMES
DICE
I. GAMES WITH TWO-SIDED DICE
HEADS AND TAILS
THE BOWL GAME
2. GAMES WITH SIX-SIDED DICE
THIRTY-SIX
PIG
ACES IN THE POT
BARBUDI
HAZARD
BUCK DICE
MARTINETTI
DROP DEAD
INDIAN DICE
"SHIP, CAPTAIN, MATE AND CREW"
SEQUENCES
TWENTY-SIX
ACES
3. GAMES WITH SPECIAL DICE
BELL AND HAMMER
CROWN AND ANCHOR
LIAR DICE
4. CHINESE DICE GAMES
STRUNG FLOWERS
THROWING HEAVEN AND NINE
PUT AND TAKE
Chapter Six: DOMINO GAMES
FISHING
DISPUTING TENS
COLLECTING TENS
MA-JONG
EUROPEAN DOMINOES
THE BLOCK GAME
THE BERGEN GAME
FORTY-TWO
BINGO
DOMINO CRIB
THE MATADOR GAME
CYPRUS
TIDDLE-A-WINK
Chapter Seven: MAKING BOARDS AND PIECES
Appendix: BIOGRAPHIES
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