For thousands of years, people have been planning attacks, captures, chases, and conquests - on a variety of different boards designed for an astonishing divers

Focuses on different families of traditional games and folk entertainments, with some discussion of rules and strategies.

“[A] timely book . . . a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history.” —The Wall Street Journal Board games have b

Ranging from such classics as bridge, poker, whist, and rummy to the more familiar Cucumber, Pishti, Go Fish, and Spinado, this book provides clear and expert a

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi