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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... scores of 2, 3, or 6, which he may throw in the meantime. 7. The women return from the well to the village in the same way as on the outward journey. 8. The mother first arriving back at the village lets a hyena loose and her son ...
... scores of 2, 3, or 6, which he may throw in the meantime. 7. The women return from the well to the village in the same way as on the outward journey. 8. The mother first arriving back at the village lets a hyena loose and her son ...
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... Scoring 1 white side up .. 1 2 white sides up .. 2 and turn ceases 3 white sides up .. 3 and turn ceases 4 white sides up .. 4 o white sides up .. 8 If four cowries are used instead of seeds the mouth. FIG. 12. Thaayam board and markers ...
... Scoring 1 white side up .. 1 2 white sides up .. 2 and turn ceases 3 white sides up .. 3 and turn ceases 4 white sides up .. 4 o white sides up .. 8 If four cowries are used instead of seeds the mouth. FIG. 12. Thaayam board and markers ...
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... card game, Noddy. There seems little doubt that an existing form of score board was utilized for the new. FIG. 16. Cribbage board of inlaid woods (author's collection) THE GAME OF THIRTY SQUARES (SENAT) FIG. 21. Board from.
... card game, Noddy. There seems little doubt that an existing form of score board was utilized for the new. FIG. 16. Cribbage board of inlaid woods (author's collection) THE GAME OF THIRTY SQUARES (SENAT) FIG. 21. Board from.
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R. C. Bell. existing form of score board was utilized for the new games, and the humble cribbage board obtainable in any games shop may have a lineage reaching back to the board from Thebes. 5. THE BACKGAMMON GROUP GAMING BOARDS FROM THE ...
R. C. Bell. existing form of score board was utilized for the new games, and the humble cribbage board obtainable in any games shop may have a lineage reaching back to the board from Thebes. 5. THE BACKGAMMON GROUP GAMING BOARDS FROM THE ...
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... score of courts left in the whole of Europe. A crude board made of buff ware but closely resembling the Qustul board was found at Holt in Denbighshire and is now in the National Museum of Wales. It apparently belonged to a soldier of ...
... score of courts left in the whole of Europe. A crude board made of buff ware but closely resembling the Qustul board was found at Holt in Denbighshire and is now in the National Museum of Wales. It apparently belonged to a soldier of ...
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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