Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volume 1 |
Contents
CROSS AND CIRCLE RACE GAMES | 1 |
THE ROYAL GAME OF GOOSE Whitehouse F R B Table Games of | 14 |
PEG SCORING BOARDS | 20 |
Copyright | |
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volume 1 Robert Charles Bell No preview available - 1960 |
Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volume 1 Robert Charles Bell No preview available - 1960 |
Common terms and phrases
Alquerque alternately anti-clockwise attack author's collection Awari backgammon Black board fig Captured pieces centre century A.D. Charles Cotton Chinese chess colour contains corner corner-rattler count counters cowries dominoes double draughts Egyptian elephant empty points enemy piece English draughts four gambling gaming board geese hand Hasami Shogi Hnefatafl hole inner table ivory jump king loses Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum Ludus Latrunculorum MANCALA manuscript Method of Play move a piece moved one square Nine Men's Morris Nyout opening player Opening position opponent pair Patolli pawn pays pebbles pieces move pips Plate player throws player's pieces players move pool pung quong rajah redrawn removed round Rules score seeds Shatranj Shaturanga Shooter shown in fig single Six Men's Morris square diagonally stake sticks stones Tablut Tailpiece Three Men's Morris tiles turn of play twin vacant point vacant squares Wei-ch'i white sides winner wins the game wood