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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... marked squares represent castles in which the pieces are free from capture. A castle occupied by a player's piece is open to his partner's pieces, but closed to the enemy. Each player has four bee-hive shaped wooden pieces marked with ...
... marked squares represent castles in which the pieces are free from capture. A castle occupied by a player's piece is open to his partner's pieces, but closed to the enemy. Each player has four bee-hive shaped wooden pieces marked with ...
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... marked 1 and 6, and 2 and 5, on the opposing faces. If dice are used the game is called Chausar. LUDO About 1896 Pachisi was modified and introduced into England as Ludo, patent 14636, a cubic die being used (fig. 10). The boards and ...
... marked 1 and 6, and 2 and 5, on the opposing faces. If dice are used the game is called Chausar. LUDO About 1896 Pachisi was modified and introduced into England as Ludo, patent 14636, a cubic die being used (fig. 10). The boards and ...
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... marked down on the sand to her credit to be used later. 4. Two mothers can share the same day (hole). 5. A mother must reach the well exactly. If she is short, however, she may make up the missing days by paying the equivalent number of ...
... marked down on the sand to her credit to be used later. 4. Two mothers can share the same day (hole). 5. A mother must reach the well exactly. If she is short, however, she may make up the missing days by paying the equivalent number of ...
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... 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 cubical in shape, each of the surfaces being slightly convex. They are used in making curries.
... 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 cubical in shape, each of the surfaces being slightly convex. They are used in making curries.
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... marked and represent a player's palace, while the central square is a keep or castle. Each player has four pieces which start the game off the board. Rules 1. Each player in turn throws the dice and the highest scorer begins the game ...
... marked and represent a player's palace, while the central square is a keep or castle. Each player has four pieces which start the game off the board. Rules 1. Each player in turn throws the dice and the highest scorer begins the game ...
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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