A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess
1952 • 0-0 Players • Age 0+
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Suitable for ages 0 and up. You can play with 0 to 0 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: ...
Game Data
- Average time to play
- 0 Minutes
- Minimum age
- 0+
- Number of players
- 0
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Designers
- H. J. R. Murray
- Artists
- Unknown
- Mechanics
- Unknown
This 267-page history of the world's games is divided into nine chapters plus appendices. A two-page table near the end summarizes the distribution of games in countries across both history and the globe. Murray categorizes games according to their general goals: "Games of Alinement and Configuration;" "War-Games;" "Hunt-Games;" "Race-Games;" and "Mancala" (four types). Each major category is sub-categorized further. The text richly describes multiple games in each category, offering ample black-and-white illustrations to help the reader visualize lesser-known games.
Excellent book re-published by Oxbow Books in 2000 (ISBN-10 0-19-827401-7 -- ISBN-13: 978-0198274018), but once again out of print.
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