New Tactical Games with Dice and Cards

Author: Reiner Knizia
Publisher: Blue Terrier Press
ISBN: 9780993688010
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
World-renowned game designer Reiner Knizia offers 50 new easy-to-play games featuring cards and dice. These fun and novel games can be played with easily available items like standard playing cards, dice and a few counters. This book is perfect for everyone from casual game players to dedicated game designers.

Card Games Around the World

Author: Sid Sackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486281000
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
A leading inventor and collector of games, Sid Sackson is also an expert on game history. For this highly entertaining volume, the self-proclaimed "game addict" has selected over 60 popular games from around the world. A brief but fascinating introductory chapter to the history of card playing is followed by a valuable glossary of terms associated with this popular pastime. Additional chapters supply instructions, detailed illustrations, and an abundance of clear examples for playing such intriguing diversions as Sampen, Kowah, Kabu, Cha Kau Tsz' and Khanhoo from Asia; Skat, Blackjack, Old Maid, Fan Tan, Eights, Klondike, La Belle Loucie, Accordion, and Hearts from Europe; Whist, Blackout, Cribbage, Spoil Five, and Casino from the British Isles; Pif Paf, Samba, Bolivia, and Canasta from Latin America; and Poker, Pinochle, Contract Bridge, Rummy, and Oklahoma Gin from the United States. Most games can be played by children or adults with a common deck of 52 playing cards (a few will need additional cards from a second deck).

Blazing Aces!: A Fistful of Family Card Games

Author: Reiner Knizia
Publisher: Blue Terrier Press
ISBN: 9780993688027
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
World-renowned game designer Reiner Knizia is the master of simple game rules that create fun and enjoyment for people of all ages. In this book of fifteen original card games, he reveals how to use ordinary playing cards in a number of novel new ways. All that's needed is an understanding of basic poker combinations--you'll learn them here!--and a standard deck of cards or two. In addition to the basic games, a number of variants are also introduced to make play even more interesting. Just follow along as cowboy Joe Joker explains how to play using detailed illustrated examples and stories from the Wild West. Grab a deck of cards and rustle up your family, a few friends, or your regular posse. You'll quickly be enjoying a variety of fun games suitable for all ages! From the Introduction: All the games presented in this book are based on card combinations used in Poker. However, these games are not gambling games but are designed to be played by all the family. The card combinations merely provide a familiar and easy accessible basis for many new play mechanisms to explore and enjoy. So, welcome to the Wild West! Our hero, Joe Joker, is keen to tell you the story of his life: settling in the West, the gold rush in California, the stage coaches and the iron horses, the cowboys and their challenging lives. But first and foremost, Joe is an enthusiastic card player and he will introduce you to all of these exciting new games. It is time to play! Reiner Knizia

The Pocket Guide to Dice & Dice Games

Author: Keith Souter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1620879786
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Dice games have been played for centuries and are a staple of the playground, board games, and casinos alike. This pocket guide spans the history of dice and offers clear explanations of popular dice games, including farkle (played since the Middle Ages), Gluckhaus (a German game of fortune, played since the medieval era), craps, and Jacks! This guide also includes tips on winning and how to avoid being tricked by loaded or “crooked” dice. Famous dice players, such as the Roman emperors Augustus and Caligula, lost money playing dice and quickly stole other people’s to continue their gaming sprees. In the early nineteenth century, fortunes could be won and lost at the roll of a die and it was not only money which was gambled away, but estates and even marriages. Full of fascinating facts and useful tips, this is a must-read book for everyone interested in family fun, games, gambling, or social history. Did you know? • Dice derives from the Latin datum, meaning “ought to be played” • The black marks showing the numbers are called pips • Dice were first played in India around 3000 bc • Dice were originally made from bones, including knuckle and ankle bones • Traditionally cubed, dice also come in other geometric shapes, incuding the zocchihedron, the 100-sided die, and the deltoidal icositetrahedron, where each side is shaped like a kite

Dice & Card Games

Author: Jon Tremaine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858335391
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description

New Rules for Classic Games

Author: R. Wayne Schmittberger
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471536215
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
"An essential book for anyone interested in gameplay." —Games magazine If rules are made to be broken, then dust off those old games lying dormant in your closet, because your game playing just got a lot more exciting! New Rules for Classic Games, by games expert R. Wayne Schmittberger, is a complete guide to hundreds of new twists and variations guaranteed to expand and enliven your game repertoire. How about: Wraparound Scrabble: Worlds can run off an edge of the board and be continued on the other side. Another variation allows words to be spelled backwards! Extinction Chess: Think of every type of piece as a species; your goal is to prevent extinction of any of these species. Trivial Tic-Tac-Toe: An entertaining and challenging cross between Trivial Pursuit and tic-tac-toe. Auction Monopoly: Every property, no matter who lands on it, is sold to the highest bidder. You’ll find these and other exciting new challenges for card and dice games, chess, checkers, party games, and popular board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, Risk, Parcheesi, Boggle, Othello, and Trivial Pursuit. And to make sure your game playing never gets stale, New Rules for Classic Games gives you rules for little-known games that can be played with equipment you already have and tips for doing your own rule writing!

Dice Games Properly Explained

Author: Reiner Knizia
Publisher: Blue Terrier Press
ISBN: 9780973105216
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
World-renowned game designer Reiner Knizia has written the absolute classic on dice games and strategies. Straightforward and easy-to-read, this little gem gives detailed instructions, comprehensive odds, and insightful strategies on nearly 150 dice games and variations-several of which appear only within these pages.

Hoyle's Rules of Games

Author: Philip D. Morehead
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780451204844
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
Provides rules, strategies, and odds for card, indoor, and computer games.

Dice Games, New and Old

Author: William Evan Tredd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dice
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description

A Gamut of Games

Author: Sid Sackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486273474
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
An expert on game history selects 38 of his favorite amusements, all of which can be played by children or adults with common items such as cards, dice, checkerboards, and pencil and paper.