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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... passes the sticks to the next player. 2. A player must throw a taba before his mother can leave the village. 3. After throwing a taba the player's mother moves along the spiral two, three, or six days as indicated by the next throw. She ...
... passes the sticks to the next player. 2. A player must throw a taba before his mother can leave the village. 3. After throwing a taba the player's mother moves along the spiral two, three, or six days as indicated by the next throw. She ...
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... pass the time they play several games, the most popular being Thaayam. The board (fig. 12) is marked out on the ground and little sticks are used for pieces. The dice are made from tamarind seeds which are chocolate brown in colour and ...
... pass the time they play several games, the most popular being Thaayam. The board (fig. 12) is marked out on the ground and little sticks are used for pieces. The dice are made from tamarind seeds which are chocolate brown in colour and ...
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... blocked and neither player can pass those of the opponent, the game is drawn. 9. The first player to marshal his five pieces on the upper five points of his opponent's side of the tree wins the game. Archaeologists know.
... blocked and neither player can pass those of the opponent, the game is drawn. 9. The first player to marshal his five pieces on the upper five points of his opponent's side of the tree wins the game. Archaeologists know.
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... passing the die to their opponent. The pieces can only move towards the end of the board, They cannot move backwards. 6. A piece reaching one of the marked squares—X, III, II, I—cannot be captured but rests on it until an exact throw ...
... passing the die to their opponent. The pieces can only move towards the end of the board, They cannot move backwards. 6. A piece reaching one of the marked squares—X, III, II, I—cannot be captured but rests on it until an exact throw ...
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... twelfth or HOME point. 2. A player's pieces remain in their order of entry. No piece can pass over one in front of it, nor can two pieces rest on the same point except on the home point. 3. If a player plays a piece on to a.
... twelfth or HOME point. 2. A player's pieces remain in their order of entry. No piece can pass over one in front of it, nor can two pieces rest on the same point except on the home point. 3. If a player plays a piece on to a.
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volúmenes1-2 Robert Charles Bell Vista previa limitada - 1979 |
Términos y frases comunes
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