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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... sticks which are used as counters. Method of Play 1. The players are divided into two teams and a player from each team throws the sticks alternately, each player in a team throwing in turn and advancing her side's runner with her throw ...
... sticks which are used as counters. Method of Play 1. The players are divided into two teams and a player from each team throws the sticks alternately, each player in a team throwing in turn and advancing her side's runner with her throw ...
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... stick, each about six inches long, on which the bark has been left, so that each stick has one rounded green surface and one flat white one. They are tossed up into the air. Three green sides up .. 6 Rules 1. The players. FIG. 11. The ...
... stick, each about six inches long, on which the bark has been left, so that each stick has one rounded green surface and one flat white one. They are tossed up into the air. Three green sides up .. 6 Rules 1. The players. FIG. 11. The ...
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... sticks in turn, each player continuing his turn until he throws a 2; when he passes the sticks to the next player. 2. A player must throw a taba before his mother can leave the village. 3. After throwing a taba the player's mother moves ...
... sticks in turn, each player continuing his turn until he throws a 2; when he passes the sticks to the next player. 2. A player must throw a taba before his mother can leave the village. 3. After throwing a taba the player's mother moves ...
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... 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.
... 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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... sticks were found elsewhere Fig. 20 shows an example now in the British Museum and marked with the cartouche of Queen Hatshepsut. The fifth square from the lower right-hand corner is marked with the hieroglyph which means a door or an ...
... sticks were found elsewhere Fig. 20 shows an example now in the British Museum and marked with the cartouche of Queen Hatshepsut. The fifth square from the lower right-hand corner is marked with the hieroglyph which means a door or an ...
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volúmenes1-2 Robert Charles Bell Vista previa limitada - 1979 |
Términos y frases comunes
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