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

“[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

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

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