TY - BOOK AU - Bell,R.C. TI - Board and table games from many civilizations SN - 0486238555 AV - GV1312 .B4 1979 PY - 1979/// CY - New York PB - Dover Publications KW - Board games KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Race games: Cross and circle race games; -- Spiral race games; -- Square board race games; -- Peg scoring boards; -- Backgammon group; -- War games: Alquerque group; -- Chess group; -- Draughts; -- Tafl group; -- Latrunculorum group; -- Running-flight games; -- Games of Position: Morris games; -- Three-in-a-row games; -- Five-in-a-row games; -- Replacement games; -- Territorial possession; -- Patience games; -- Mancula games: Two-rank mancula; -- four-rank mancula; -- Dice games: Games with two-sided dice; -- Games with sic-sided dice; -- Games with special dice; -- Chinese dice games; -- Domino games; -- Making boards and pieces; -- Appendix N2 - Encyclopedic work on 182 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (go), Backgammon, Pachisi, many others. Over 300 illustrations ER -