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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... round the board until they reach the square contiguous with their palace when they turn into the inner path and travel clockwise until they again reach the square contiguous with their palace when they turn to enter the centre; and when ...
... round the board until they reach the square contiguous with their palace when they turn into the inner path and travel clockwise until they again reach the square contiguous with their palace when they turn to enter the centre; and when ...
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... round the perimeter of the board, and back up the other side of the tree; the five pieces taking up the upper five positions along the tree trunk on the opponent's side of the board. Exact throws are needed to enable them to take up ...
... round the perimeter of the board, and back up the other side of the tree; the five pieces taking up the upper five positions along the tree trunk on the opponent's side of the board. Exact throws are needed to enable them to take up ...
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... round the track. Apparently both colours travelled in the same direction, and it improves the game if no piece is allowed to enter the second half of the board until all the player's pieces are entered into the first half. 4. If a ...
... round the track. Apparently both colours travelled in the same direction, and it improves the game if no piece is allowed to enter the second half of the board until all the player's pieces are entered into the first half. 4. If a ...
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... round the board until one player has lost all his men. 8. If a piece lands on a point occupied by an opponent's piece the latter is removed from the board and is out of the game. 9. Doubling up on a point is not allowed and if a throw ...
... round the board until one player has lost all his men. 8. If a piece lands on a point occupied by an opponent's piece the latter is removed from the board and is out of the game. 9. Doubling up on a point is not allowed and if a throw ...
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... round the table and on the throw of an Ace a piece is passed to the player on the right. FAYLES Fayles is also mentioned in the Alfonso manuscript under the name of Fallas and was still played in the time of Ben Jonson (1572-1637). See ...
... round the table and on the throw of an Ace a piece is passed to the player on the right. FAYLES Fayles is also mentioned in the Alfonso manuscript under the name of Fallas and was still played in the time of Ben Jonson (1572-1637). See ...
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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