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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... SCORING BOARDS THE PALM TREE GAME Lord Carnarvon and Carter, H., Five Years' Excavation at Thebes, quoted by Peet, T. E., Universal History of the World, ed. Hammerton, p. 562. Gadd, C.J., 'An Egyptian game in Assyria', Iraq, I. 1934, p ...
... SCORING BOARDS THE PALM TREE GAME Lord Carnarvon and Carter, H., Five Years' Excavation at Thebes, quoted by Peet, T. E., Universal History of the World, ed. Hammerton, p. 562. Gadd, C.J., 'An Egyptian game in Assyria', Iraq, I. 1934, p ...
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... Mah Jongg. London, 1924. Ranger, L., Directions for playing Ma-Jong, Shanghai ( undated). Higginson, C. M. W., Mah Jongg, How to play and score (undated). EUROPEAN DOMINOES Strutt, J., Sports and Pastimes of the People.
... Mah Jongg. London, 1924. Ranger, L., Directions for playing Ma-Jong, Shanghai ( undated). Higginson, C. M. W., Mah Jongg, How to play and score (undated). EUROPEAN DOMINOES Strutt, J., Sports and Pastimes of the People.
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... Scoring One flat side up . . 1 and if this is the blue, another turn Two flat sides up . . 2 Three flat sides up . . 3 and if the blue is included, another [turn Four flat sides up . . 6 and another turn. FIG. 5. Zohn Ahl track (after ...
... Scoring One flat side up . . 1 and if this is the blue, another turn Two flat sides up . . 2 Three flat sides up . . 3 and if the blue is included, another [turn Four flat sides up . . 6 and another turn. FIG. 5. Zohn Ahl track (after ...
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... score. The following description is based on four early works: Sahagun (c. 1545), Gomara (1553), Duran (c. 1560) and ... Scoring (Duran) 4 pips up . . 4 5 pips up . 1 pip up . . 1 2 pips up . . 2 3 pips up . . 3 Scores One white side up ...
... score. The following description is based on four early works: Sahagun (c. 1545), Gomara (1553), Duran (c. 1560) and ... Scoring (Duran) 4 pips up . . 4 5 pips up . 1 pip up . . 1 2 pips up . . 2 3 pips up . . 3 Scores One white side up ...
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... players. FIG. 11. The Hyena Game (after Hillelson, Week-end Caravan) (b) Indian chess cloth and carved wooden pieces found by. Scores. One white side up .. a taba Two white sides up .. 2 and the turn ends Three white sides up .. 3.
... players. FIG. 11. The Hyena Game (after Hillelson, Week-end Caravan) (b) Indian chess cloth and carved wooden pieces found by. Scores. One white side up .. a taba Two white sides up .. 2 and the turn ends Three white sides up .. 3.
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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