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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... pool and decide on the size of the forfeits. 2. One player takes six red pieces, the other six blue. 3. Each player casts the patolli in turn and the higher scorer starts the game by casting again. 4. The opening player introduces a ...
... pool and decide on the size of the forfeits. 2. One player takes six red pieces, the other six blue. 3. Each player casts the patolli in turn and the higher scorer starts the game by casting again. 4. The opening player introduces a ...
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... pool. 14. For three players it is suggested that each player should have five counters of his own colour making 15 counters in all. The rules remain unchanged. 15. For four players each player should have four counters, of his own ...
... pool. 14. For three players it is suggested that each player should have five counters of his own colour making 15 counters in all. The rules remain unchanged. 15. For four players each player should have four counters, of his own ...
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... pool which became the winner's property. In his poem The Deserted Village published in 1770 Oliver Goldsmith wrote: The pictures place'd for ornament and use, The Twelve good rules, the Royal Game of Goose. The games of pure amusement ...
... pool which became the winner's property. In his poem The Deserted Village published in 1770 Oliver Goldsmith wrote: The pictures place'd for ornament and use, The Twelve good rules, the Royal Game of Goose. The games of pure amusement ...
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... pool which becomes the property of the winner at the end of the game. (In one of the finds there were twenty-one small white balls which may have been tallies.) 2. One player throws a single die, the other forecasting while it is in the ...
... pool which becomes the property of the winner at the end of the game. (In one of the finds there were twenty-one small white balls which may have been tallies.) 2. One player throws a single die, the other forecasting while it is in the ...
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... pool. 7. When a piece moves on to the central file it is at war with the enemy pieces and if it lands on a square occupied by an enemy piece the latter is sent off the board and must start again with a throw of 5. There are eight ...
... pool. 7. When a piece moves on to the central file it is at war with the enemy pieces and if it lands on a square occupied by an enemy piece the latter is sent off the board and must start again with a throw of 5. There are eight ...
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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