New Tactical Games With Dice And Cards

New Tactical Games With Dice And Cards

by Reiner Knizia
New Tactical Games With Dice And Cards

New Tactical Games With Dice And Cards

by Reiner Knizia

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Overview

World-renowned game designer Reiner Knizia offers 50 new easy-to-play games featuring cards and dice. These fun and novel games require little in the way of materials and offer hours of exciting, varied and original play.

This book is perfect for everyone from casual game players to dedicated game designers. Several of these games have been transformed into successful commercial products, but you can play all the games presented here with standard playing materials like cards, dice and a few counters.

From the Introduction:

When I originally started to write this book, I was an unpublished author. I had a few games represented in magazines, but not a single boxed game on the market. Today, the archive of my works contains more than 600 published games in more than 2000 boxed editions, and more than 20 million copies have been sold all over the world.

What a difference half a lifetime makes when you dedicate yourself to fulfilling your dream!

Over the course of those years, a number of games in this book developed into fully fledged boxed games with specifically adapted materials.

It's interesting to see how some of the games evolved. Goldrush was published as a Wild West card game under its original title Goldrausch, Goal became a soccer card game Tor, Swap was developed into the recently published board game Polynesia, Sono became the tile laying game Robot Master, and Card Chase is now the card game Escalation.

But, what makes this book unique, is that you can play all the games presented here with standard playing materials like cards, dice and a few counters.

So many games to play, so little time! Enjoy!

Reiner Knizia


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780993688010
Publisher: Blue Terrier Press
Publication date: 02/01/2019
Edition description: English ed.
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 1,041,967
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Dr. Reiner Knizia is one of the world's most successful and prolific game designers. More than 700 of his games and books have been published worldwide in over 50 languages. With sales exceeding 20 million copies, he has won numerous international awards, including the prestigious Spiel des Jahres. Reiner Knizia has a Master of Science degree from Syracuse University (USA) and a PHD in Mathematics from Ulm University (Germany). Before dedicating himself to the full-time development of games, he was the Operations Director of a £ 10 billion mortgage company based in the United Kingdom. Reiner Knizia has had teaching assignments at various international universities and institutions on Learning Techniques, Management and Game Design.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword to the English Edition

Preface

Card Games from Ace through King

Gold Rush

Complica

Excursion into Game Theory

Dice Games from One to Six

Chancellor

Desk-Jogging

Excursion into Combinatorics

Swap

Dubito

Sono-Games

Excursion into Probability Calculation

Decathlon

Card Hunt

Solutions to the questions in the text

Closing Words

Game Index

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