Board and Table Games from Many CivilizationsCourier Corporation, 2012 M04 30 - 464 páginas 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. |
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... pair of dice and any number of players may play at it. 2. Whatever number it is that anyone throws, that person must place his counter in the white space under the same number: for example, should the cast be 6 and 3 he must place the ...
... pair of dice and any number of players may play at it. 2. Whatever number it is that anyone throws, that person must place his counter in the white space under the same number: for example, should the cast be 6 and 3 he must place the ...
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... central geometrical pattern. The middle row consists of twelve pairs of scrolls bisected by a compass-drawn pattern of a circle with a six-armed rosette inside it (fig. 26). More than a hundred boards for this game were found.
... central geometrical pattern. The middle row consists of twelve pairs of scrolls bisected by a compass-drawn pattern of a circle with a six-armed rosette inside it (fig. 26). More than a hundred boards for this game were found.
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... pairs, a piece from (20) going to (22), one from (19) going to (24), and one from (10) going to (16). No other moves were possible and he was left with eight singletons and a ruined position. Rules for Tabula 1. The game was played on a ...
... pairs, a piece from (20) going to (22), one from (19) going to (24), and one from (10) going to (16). No other moves were possible and he was left with eight singletons and a ruined position. Rules for Tabula 1. The game was played on a ...
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... pair was counted twice, e.g. 6, 4, was scored as 6, 4, 4. 3. A piece was moved for the throw of each die or the same piece could be moved again if desired, and if a piece landed on a BLOT or singleton the latter was sent back to its ...
... pair was counted twice, e.g. 6, 4, was scored as 6, 4, 4. 3. A piece was moved for the throw of each die or the same piece could be moved again if desired, and if a piece landed on a BLOT or singleton the latter was sent back to its ...
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... pair is thrown this throw is known as a DOUBLET and the player plays double the score, i.e. if 2, 2, is thrown the player counts it as a throw of 2, 2, 2, 2, and can move four men two points, or one man eight points or any other ...
... pair is thrown this throw is known as a DOUBLET and the player plays double the score, i.e. if 2, 2, is thrown the player counts it as a throw of 2, 2, 2, 2, and can move four men two points, or one man eight points or any other ...
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volúmenes1-2 Robert Charles Bell Vista previa limitada - 1979 |
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Alquerque alternately as-Suli Author’s collection Awari backgammon banker Black Board and pieces called capture cards centre century Chess in Iceland Chinese dominoes circle colour count counters cowries cribbage Culin diagonally Diagram disc discard Domino Whist double draughts drawing edition eight empty enemy piece English draughts face Fiske gambling hand Hasami Shogi History of Chess Hnefatafl hole Iceland illustrations Initial position ivory jump king lifted London loses Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum Ludus Latrunculorum MANCALA marked markers Men’s Morris nine opening player Opening position opponent orthogonally pair passes Patolli pawn pays pieces move pips Plate player throws player’s pieces players place pool position of pieces Queen quong RACE GAMES rajah round Rules Scarne score seeds sequence Shatranj shown in fig side Squails stake sticks stones tailpiece takes tallies tangram teetotum three dice tiles trick turn of play Wei-ch’i winner wins the game