Focuses on different families of traditional games and folk entertainments, with some discussion of rules and strategies.

For thousands of years, people have been planning attacks, captures, chases, and conquests - on a variety of different boards designed for an astonishing divers

“[A] timely book . . . a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history.” —The Wall Street Journal Board games have b

An historical guide to the card games of Europe and America. It surveys how the games originated and developed, and the rituals and etiquette which surround the

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