Games

Things that use Games

• -- Ancient Limerick hurling ball has its guts checked
• -- Organizing the Greed for Gain: Alfonso X of Spain’s Law on Gambling Houses
• A Rhythmomachy Summary Handout
• All Fours -- Modar's reconstruction of All Fours
• All Fours, Bassett, Bone-Ace, Cribbage, Gleek, La Bete, Lanterloo, Ombre, Picket, Primero, Ruff and Trump, Tables, Tick-Tack, Whist -- The Compleat Gamester, 1725 edition
• Alouette -- Modar's reconstruction of 2-player Alouette
• Alouette -- Modar's reconstruction of 4-player Alouette
• Alquerques -- Dagonell's description
• Alquerques -- Description from Abstract Games
• Alquerques -- Modar's description
• Alquerques, Fanarona, Draughts -- James Masters' page about the Alquerques Family
• Alquerques, Merels, Game of the Goose, Fox and Geese, Gluckshaus, Tables -- 7 period board games, printed on fabric
• As Nas -- Modar's reconstruction of As Nas
• Ashtapada -- Jean-Louis Cazaux' speculations about Ashtapada
• Ball Games -- Balls!
• Bassett -- Bassetta, A Renaissance Italian Card Game
• Bassett -- Modar's reconstruction of Basset
• Bassett, Landsknecht, Pochspiel, Tarot -- Still More Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Card Games
• Battledore and Shuttlecock -- History of Battledore and Shuttlecock
• Billiards -- Billiards on Traditional Games
• Billiards, Truc, Chess, Tables, Bowls, Picket, Gleek, Cribbage -- Games in *The Academy of Armory*
• Blind Man's Buff -- Blind Man's Buff at the Virtual Museum
• Bone-Ace -- Jeff Johnston's reconstruction of One-and-Thirty and Bone-Ane
• Bone-Ace -- Justin's reconstruction of Bone-Ace
• Bone-Ace -- Strawberry's reconstruction of Thirty-One
• Bowling -- A possible Bowling variant
• Bowling -- Dagonell's discussion of Bowling
• Bowls -- Bowls at the Virtual Museum
• Bowls -- Dagonell's description of Boules
• Bowls -- Description of Modern Bocce
• Bowls -- History of Bocce at bocce.org
• Bowls -- History of Boules and Petanque
• Bowls -- History of Bowls at Traditional Games
• Bowls -- Modar on Bocce
• Bowls -- On the Origin and Diffusion of European Ball Games, a Linguistic Analysis
• Bowls -- The History of Bocce
• Bowls -- The World's Best Bocce Links Page
• Bryncir -- Justin's description of Bryncir
• Byzantine Chess -- Description on Chess Variants
• Byzantine Chess -- Description on The History of Chess
• Cacho -- Ruben's reconstruction of Cacho
• Card Roulette -- Gambling Games
• Chaturanga -- Description on Chess Variants
• Chaturanga -- Discussion on the History of Chess page
• Chess -- A History of Chess, by HJR Murray
• Chess -- Carolus Chess page
• Chess -- Caxton's "The Game and Playe of the Chesse"
• Chess -- Chess History and Reminiscences
• Chess -- Chess Problems in the NYPL
• Chess -- Facsimile images of Jacobus de Cessolis' MS
• Chess -- James Masters' History of Chess
• Chess -- Jean-Louis Cazaux' History of Chess
• Chess -- Mayhematics' Guide to Variant Chess
• Chess -- Medieval Chess Pieces
• Chess -- Medieval European Chess at The History of Chess
• Chess -- Met Lecture 1 on the History of Chess
• Chess -- Repetición de amores y Arte de ajedrez
• Chess -- So You Have This Chess Set
• Chess -- The Beginnings of Chess
• Chess -- The Chess Variant Pages
• Chess -- The Enigma of the Birth of Chess
• Chess -- The Lewis Hoard of Gaming Pieces: A Re-examination of their Context, Meanings, Discovery and Manufacture
• Chess -- The Old Texts
• Chess -- The Playe of Chess
• Chess -- The Variant Chess Website
• Chess -- Vat.lat.5854
• Chess -- Vida's Scacchia Ludus
• Chess, Tables -- The Games of Chess and Backgammon in Sasanian Persia
• Chess, Tables, Merels -- Tractatus de scacchis, de tabulis et de merellis
• Chess, Tables, Primero -- Imran Ghory's History of Games
• Citadel Chess -- Description at The History of Chess
• Citadel Chess -- Description on Chess Variants
• Common Tables Concepts
• Complete Chess -- Description on The History of Chess
• Costly Colors -- Parlett on Costly Colors
• Courier Chess -- A bit on the history of Courier Chess from The Chess Collector
• Courier Chess -- Courier Online Chess at Jocly
• Courier Chess -- Description at Chess Variants
• Courier Chess -- Description at The History of Chess
• Courier Chess -- Description from the British Chess Variants Society
• Cribbage -- How to Play Cribbage
• Cribbage, Noddy -- A History of Cribbage
• Cricket -- Cricket on Traditional Games
• Curling -- Dagonell on Curling
• Curling -- Hickock Sports on Curling
• Curling -- Wikipedia on Curling
• Dominoes -- New Thoughts on Dominoes
• Dublets -- Backgammon Galore on Doublets
• Dublets -- Justin on Dublets
• Duodecima Scripta -- YouTube video teaching Duodecima Scripta
• Dwyle Flonking -- Dagonell on Dwyle Flonking
• Dwyle Flonking -- Dwyle Flunking at the Virtual Museum
• Escaques -- Description at the History of Chess
• External Page
• Fanarona -- Fanarona for Android
• Fanarona -- Fanarona for GNOME
• Fanarona -- Java implementation of Fanarona
• Fayles -- Backgammon Galore on Fayles
• Fidchell -- Fidchell in Dreoilin's Weblog
• Fierges -- Modar on Fierges
• Flor -- Ruben's reconstruction of Flor
• Four Seasons Chess -- Description at Chess Variants
• Four Seasons Chess -- Description at The History of Chess
• Four Seasons Chess -- Mats Winther's description
• Four Seasons Chess -- Michel Wolffauer on Chess of the Four Seasons
• Four-player Chaturanga -- Description at Chess Variants
• Four-player Chaturanga -- Discussion at The History of Chess
• Four-player Chaturanga -- Mats Winther's Description
• Fox and Geese -- Fox and Geese - How to Play and History of the Game
• Fox and Geese -- Mats Winther on Fox and Geese
• Fox and Geese -- Modar on Fox and Geese
• Gala -- Description on Chess Variants
• Gala -- Mats Winther on Gala
• Game Notes
• Game of the Four Seasons -- Building the Board for the Game of the Four Seasons
• Game of the Four Seasons -- Michel Wolffauer's reconstruction of El Mundo
• Game of the Goose -- A lovely Goose board at the Met
• Game of the Goose -- Biography of a Board Game: Game of the Goose
• Game of the Goose -- Dagonell on Goose
• Game of the Goose -- Giochi dell'Oca
• Game of the Goose -- Images of many board games (heavy on Goose)
• Game of the Goose -- Kadon Enterprises Goose Set
• Game of the Goose -- Modar on Game of the Goose
• Game of the Goose -- Rules to Goose at Kadon Enterprises
• Gameball -- Dagonell on Gameball
• Gleek -- A period-style description of Gleek
• Gleek -- David Parlett's reconstruction of Gleek
• Gleek -- Justin's reconstruction of Gleek
• Gleek -- Michel's reconstruction of Gleek
• Gleek -- Transcription of Cotgrave's Gleek
• Gleek -- Transcription of Gleek from Cotgrave
• Gluckshaus -- A brief description on the Landsknecht page
• Gluckshaus -- Dagonell on Gluckshaus
• Gluckshaus -- Gluckhaus at The Reverend's Musings
• Gluckshaus -- YouTube video teaching Gluckhaus
• Go -- A Pictorial History of the Game of Go
• Go -- Michel Wolffauer's handout for his Go class
• Grande Acedrex -- Alternate reconstruction of Grande Acedrex
• Grande Acedrex -- Description at Chess Variants
• Gwyddbwyll -- Gwyddbwyll reconstruction from Y Camamseriad
• Halatafl -- Mats Winther on Halatafl
• Harpastum -- The Wikipedia page on Harpastum
• Hazard -- Dagonell on Hazard
• Hazard -- Hazard - History of the Game and How to Play
• Hazard -- Hazard on the Landsknecht page
• Hazard -- Hazard on the Tattershall Arms page
• Hnefetafl -- A Pictish Origin for Hnefetafl?
• Hnefetafl -- Abbas Agraphicus
• Hnefetafl -- Hnefatafl Online
• Hnefetafl -- Hnefatafl World Championship
• Hnefetafl -- Smithsonian Learning Center on Hnefetafl
• Hnefetafl -- Susan Granquist's page on Tafl
• Hnefetafl -- The Ancient Game Every Intelligence Professional Should Play
• Hnefetafl -- Tim Millar on Hnefetafl Tactics and Strategy
• Hnefetafl -- Trondheim Hnefatafl Board Fragment
• Hnefetafl -- Wareham Forge on Hnefetafl
• Hnefetafl -- YouTube video teaching Hnefatafl
• Hopscotch -- Dagonell on Hopscotch
• Hopscotch -- Michel Wolffauer on Hopscotch
• Indian / Turkish Great Chess -- Description on Chess Variants
• Inn and Inn -- Inn and Inn from the Ace's Boke
• Irish -- Backgammon Galore on Irish
• Irish -- Islamic Backgammon
• Irish -- Period-style description of Irish
• Irish, Early Backgammon -- Justin on Irish
• Jactus -- YouTube video teaching Jactus
• Karnoeffel -- A description of Kaiserspiel
• Karnoeffel -- Modar's reconstruction of Karnoffel
• Karnoeffel -- Parlett on Karnoeffel
• Karnoeffel -- Strawberry's reconstruction of Karnöffel
• Karnoeffel -- The Karnöffel Group on the Card Games page
• Knattleikr -- Knattleikr, the Viking Ball Game
• Knucklebones -- Dagonell on Knucklebones
• Knucklebones -- Probability in Sheep Knucklebone Replicas
• Knucklebones, Tabula -- Roman Board Games
• Knucklebones, Tali -- Eachna's Celtic Knucklebones Page
• Kottabos -- A news article about reconstructing Kottabos
• Kubb -- A concise overview of how to play Kubb
• Kubb -- Dagonell on Kubb
• Kubb -- Home page of the British Kubb Players Association
• Kubb -- Kubb for sale at Crown Darts
• Kubb -- The Kubb World Championship Homepage
• La Bete -- A reconstruction from the Avacal Games Guild
• La Bete -- A reconstruction of La Bete by the Low Company
• Landsknecht -- A brief description on the Landsknecht info site
• Lanterloo -- Parlett on Loo
• Laugh and Lie Down -- Justin's implementation of Laugh and Lie Down for playingcards.io
• Laugh and Lie Down -- Justin's reconstruction of Laugh and Lie Down
• Laugh and Lie Down -- Laugh and Lie Down Cheat Sheet
• Laugh and Lie Down -- Parlett on Laugh and Lie Down
• Liar's Dice -- Liar's Dice in Folklore in History
• Losing Loadum -- Michel's reconstruction of Losing Loadum
• Losing Loadum -- Parlett on Losing Lodam
• Ludus Latrunculorum -- YouTube video teaching Latrunculi
• Ludus Latrunculorum -- YouTube video teaching Ludus Latrunculorum
• Mancala -- A page of Mancala links
• Mancala -- A pretty JavaScript game of Mancala
• Mancala -- Articles about Mancala
• Mancala -- Count and Capture Games at the Museum of Games
• Mancala -- Mancala on Traditional Games
• Mancala -- Online play of Mancala
• Maw -- A preliminary reconstruction of Maw by Glenn Overby
• Maw -- Parlett on Maw
• Maw, Ruff and Trump, Bone-Ace -- A brief description of several games, at Tattershall Arms
• Merels -- Dagonell on Morris Games
• Merels -- Merels at the Museum of Games
• Merels -- Merels in the Ace's Boke
• Merels -- MS page showing Nine Men's Morris
• Merels -- Nine and Three Men's Morris on Traditional Games
• Merels -- Row or Mill Games at the Virtual Museum
• Merels -- The Loop Within Circular Three Men's Morris
• Merels, Tables -- A 14th c. MS with info about Merels and Tables
• Merels, Tafl -- Java implementations of several board games
• Metromachy -- An in-depth paper on Metromachy
• Metromachy -- Justin's transcription of Metromachy
• Metromachy -- Magnus' reconstruction and implementation of Metromachy
• Nine Men's Morris -- YouTube video teaching Nine Men's Morris
• Noddy -- David Parlett on Noddy
• Noddy -- Five Card Cribbage
• Noddy -- Justin's reconstruction of Noddy and Early Cribbage
• Noddy -- Lady Gwir ferch John on Noddy
• Oblong Chess -- Description on Chess Variants
• Oblong Chess -- Description on The History of Chess
• Oblong Chess -- Mats Winther's reconstruction
• Ombre -- Parlett on Ombre
• Ombre -- The Royal Game of Ombre
• Ombre -- Transcription of Ombre, from Cotgrave 2nd ed.
• Ombre -- Transcription of Ombre, from Cotgrave 3rd ed
• Ombre, Picket, Pochspiel, Billiards, Trictrac -- Academie Universelle des Jeux (1718)
• Pachisi -- Asia Society on Pachisi
• Pachisi -- Pachisi on Traditional Games
• Pall-Mall -- Hickock Sports on the History of Croquet
• Pall-Mall -- Modar on Pall-Mall
• Pall-Mall -- Pall Mall at Traditional Games
• Pechigonga -- Ruben's reconstruction of Pechigonga
• Penneech -- Parlett on Penneech
• Picket -- A period-style description of Piquet
• Picket -- Another transcription of Picket from Cotgrave
• Picket -- How to Play Piquet
• Picket -- Justin's implementation of Piquet for playingcards.io
• Picket -- Justin's reconstruction of Picket
• Picket -- Margaret's reconstruction of Piquet
• Picket -- Parlett on Piquet
• Picket -- The rules of modern Piquet
• Picket -- Transcription of Cotgrave's description of Picket
• Picket -- Transcription of Picket from Cotton
• Pochspiel -- Galleron's reconstructed Pochspiel board
• Pochspiel -- Michael Wolffauer on Poch
• Primero -- A brief description of Primero on the Landsknecht page
• Primero -- An excerpt from a mid-18th century book on Minchiate, with rules for Prime
• Primero -- CAPITOLO SOPRA il gioco di Primiera
• Primero -- Commento al Capitolo della Primiera
• Primero -- David Whittaker's reconstruction of Primero
• Primero -- Excerpt from "Second Frutes"
• Primero -- Excerpt from Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues in Spanish and English
• Primero -- Il gioco di primiera
• Primero -- Jeff Suzuki's reconstruction of Primero
• Primero -- Justin's reconstructions of Primero
• Primero -- Modernized version of "Jeu de prime de Lyon"
• Primero -- Primero from Nare's Glossary
• Primero -- Scan of Liber de Ludo Aleae
• Primero -- Transcription of "Jeu de prime de Lyon"
• Putt -- Transcription of Putt from Cotton
• Quek -- A court case, described on ORB
• Quoits -- Dagonell on Quoits and Horseshoes
• Quoits -- History of Quoits at Traditional Games
• Rentoy -- Ruben's reconstruction of Rentoy
• Reversis -- Parlett on Reversis
• Rhythmomachy -- 16th century Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- A (now-ancient) Windows implementation of Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- A Medieval Battle of Numbers
• Rhythmomachy -- Android implementation of Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- Aritmomachia Blog
• Rhythmomachy -- Benedetto's *Trattato Delle Proportioni Et Proportionalita*
• Rhythmomachy -- Dagonell on Rithmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- Illustration of the Kings on a Rhythmomachy board
• Rhythmomachy -- Laser-cutting a Rhythmomachy Board
• Rhythmomachy -- Period illustration of a Rhythmomachy board
• Rhythmomachy -- Period-style Elizabethan Rhythmomachy Rules
• Rhythmomachy -- Period-style intro to Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- Rhythmomachy Basics
• Rhythmomachy -- Rithmomachia Canada
• Rhythmomachy -- Rithmomachia on Game Cabinet
• Rhythmomachy -- Rithmomachia, the Great Medieval Number Game
• Rhythmomachy -- The Battle of Numbers
• Rhythmomachy -- Transcription of William Fulke's book
• Ringing the Bull -- Ringing the Bull at Traditional Games
• Rounders -- Rounders at Traditional Games
• Ruff and Trump -- How to Play Ruff and Honours
• Ruff and Trump -- Justin's implementation of Ruff and Trump
• Ruff and Trump -- Justin's preliminary reconstruction of Ruff and Honours
• Ruff and Trump -- Justin's reconstruction of Ruff and Trump
• Ruff and Trump -- Ruffe and Trump
• Ruzzola -- Description of Ruzzola in modern Italy, by a tourist
• Ruzzola -- Description of Ruzzola on Italian Traditions
• Senet -- The Game Cabinet on Senet
• Seven-Sided Backgammon -- Justin's reconstruction of Seven-Sided Backgammon
• Seven-Sided Backgammon -- Making Seven-Sided Dice
• Seven-Sided Backgammon -- Photo of a very nice Seven-Sided Backgammon Board
• Seven-Sided Backgammon -- Roselyne's translation of Astronomical Games
• Shatranj -- Description on Chess Variants
• Shatranj -- Discussion on The History of Chess
• Shatranj Kamil -- An alternate version on Chess Variants
• Shatranj Kamil -- Description on Chess Variants
• Shogi -- Japanese Chess
• Shogi -- Michel Wolffauer's cheat sheet
• Shogi -- Shogi 2014
• Shogi -- Shogi Rules
• Shovegroat -- Dagonell on Shove Groat
• Shovegroat -- Shove Ha'penny at Traditional Games
• Shovelboard -- Shovelboard on Traditional Games
• Skittles -- Skittles on Traditional Games
• Stoolball -- Stoolball at Traditional Games
• Sugoroku -- Edward of Effingham on Sugoroku
• Sugoroku -- The Asia Society on Sugoroku
• Tablero de Jesus -- Archive of an email discussion about Tablero
• Tablero de Jesus -- Dagonell on Tablero
• Tablero de Jesus -- Game Cabinet on Tablero
• Tablero de Jesus -- New York Magazine, 20 Dec 71
• Tablero de Jesus -- New York Magazine, 9 Oct 72
• Tablero de Jesus -- Tablero da Gucci at the Game Cabinet
• Tables -- Backgammon Galore
• Tables -- Cardano on Tables Games
• Tables -- Chronology of Backgammon and Tables in England
• Tables -- History of Backgammon on Traditional Games
• Tables -- Imran Ghory's Listing of Tables in English Literature
• Tables -- Imran Ghory's notes on the History of Backgammon
• Tables -- So You Have This Backgammon Board
• Tables -- The Asia Society on Backgammon in Persia and China
• Tables -- The Origins of Backgammon
• Tables, Chess -- On the Explanation of Chess and Backgammon
• Tablut -- Mats Winther on Tablut
• Tablut -- Modar on Tablut
• Tablut, Nine Men's Morris, Ludus Latrunculorum -- Queen’s Guard gifts – Portable Ancient Board Games
• Tabula -- 1on1 Backgammon on Tabula
• Tabula -- Backgammon Galore on Tabula
• Tafl -- A photo of the Ballinderry Game Board
• Tafl -- Damian Walker's Hnefetafl Site
• Tafl -- Fithcheall and Gwyddbwyll: Hnefatafl or Not?
• Tafl -- Hnefatafl - Archaeological Finds
• Tafl -- Justin on Tafl
• Tafl -- Links from the World Tafl Federation
• Tafl -- Michel Wolffauer's handout on Tafl
• Tafl -- Period-style description of Tafl
• Tafl -- Ragnar Thorbergsson's Analysis of Tafl
• Tafl -- Sten Helmfrid on Tafl Games
• Tafl -- Tafl Shops
• Tafl -- The Game Cabinet on Tafl Games
• Tafl -- The Tafl Gild
• Tafl -- The Viking Answer Lady on Tafl Games
• Tafl -- The World Tafl Federation
• Tag Games -- Dagonell on Tag Games
• Tali -- Tali at the Roman Board Games site
• Tamerlanes Chess -- Description at Chess Variants
• Tamerlanes Chess -- Description at The History of Chess
• Tamerlanes Chess -- Full Tamerlane Chess at The History of Chess
• Tamerlanes Chess -- Image of a 14th century page of Arabic text, showing a picture of what certainly *looks* like a Tamurlane's Chess board
• Tarot -- A brief history of the Tarot
• Tarot -- A page on Austrian Tarock
• Tarot -- A period-style description of Tarot
• Tarot -- Accademia del Tarocchino Bolognese
• Tarot -- James Wickson's reconstruction of early Tarot
• Tarot -- Justin's description of Early French Tarot
• Tarot -- Maproom Publications
• Tarot -- Michel Wolffauer's writeup on Tarot
• Tarot -- Modar's reconstruction of Tarok
• Tarot -- Pagat's page on Minchiate / Germini
• Tarot -- Pre-Gebelin Tarot History
• Tarot -- Regles du Jeu des Tarots
• Tarot -- SCA-appropriate Tarot decks
• Tarot -- The TarotL History Information Sheet
• Tarot -- Trionfi
• Teetotums -- Dagonell on Teetotums
• Tennis -- Tennis at Traditional Games
• The Game of Ur -- Deciphering the World's Oldest Rule Book
• The Game of Ur -- Irving Finkel's detailed reconstruction of the game
• The Game of Ur, Aseb -- From Ur to Aseb: The Evolution of the Game of Twenty Squares
• Three Men's Morris -- YouTube video teaching Three Men's Morris
• Tick-Tack -- Low Company reconstruction of Ticktack
• Tick-Tack -- Transcription of Tick-Tack from Cotton
• Trappola -- Michael Wolffauer on Trappola
• Trictrac -- Backgammon Galore on Trictrac
• Trictrac -- David Levy's Trictrac Homepage
• Trictrac -- Le Jeu de Trictrac
• Trictrac -- The Reasoned Dictionary of Trictrac
• Truc -- Ruben's reconstruction of Truc
• Trump -- Anton de Stoc's reconstruction of Trump
• Trump -- Relevant parts of *Familiar Dialogues*
• Trump -- Trump, transcribed by Antron de Stoc
• Wari -- Michael Wolffauer on Wari
• Wari -- Modar on Wari
• Whist -- How to Play Whist