Board and table games from many civilizations / by R.C. Bell.

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.

Encyclopedic work on 182 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (go), Backgammon, Pachisi, many others. Over 300 illustrations.