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	A History of Board Games
		One can well imagine that games have been played throughout human history, beginning as soon as there was a moment of leisure time not devoted to survival -- and as soon as communications between individuals got beyond the basics of conveying elementary needs and movement, into the realm of intention and ideas.
		It's a fact that games are played between babies and their parents from the first months of life, beginning with peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake and working up to hide-and-seek just as soon as a toddler is mobile.
		The Game of Go ("Wei-qi" in its original Chinese form) enjoys a special place in board game history, because not only is it one of the oldest games known, it has kept essentially the same rules for longer than any other board game out there.
	www.ccgs.com /games (1145 words)

	Board game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popular games of this type include Monopoly, which is a rough simulation of the real estate market, Cluedo, which is based upon a murder mystery, and Risk which is one of the most well known of thousands of games attempting to simulate warfare and geo-politics.
		Board games first became widely popular among the general population early in the 20th century when the rise of the middle class with disposable income and leisure time made them a receptive audience to such games.
		Although many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Board_game (1598 words)

	The history of board games
		A board game is a game that is played on a flat surface called a game board, which most likely would be a decorated map of some sort.
		History shows that some of the early board games were thought to have a religious purpose.
		The objective of strategy games are to capture or block opposing pieces, to gain control of larger portions of the game board, to enter pieces on the board so that a number of them form a row, or to trap or eliminate a prey.
	wv.essortment.com /historyofboard_rjyw.htm (646 words)

	History of board games
		The earliest games had one of two goals, the first was to capture or trap the opposing players pieces and the second was to race across the board to finish the game first.
		The history of board games and other types of game playing reinforces the concept that this is an integral part of the human experience.
		Game playing is as important to the culture of a society as its music, dance, and literature.
	www.1st-in-games.com /8104-history-of-board-games.html (287 words)

	Board Games
		Board games have been played in the East for over five millenniums and games using counters or draughts were played in Mesopotamia two millenniums before the birth of the Messiah.
		In ancient Egypt, during the Pharaonic period, board games were an integral part of social life, evidenced by Senet, which was played on a board of 30 cells.
		Games are related to the playful inventive and positive side of the child archetype.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/chesmayne/board_games.htm (602 words)

	History of Board Games - Patch Products
		Many of the early settlers to come to North America brought board games with them to trade or to keep their children entertained, but it wasn't until after the Revolutionary War that the first toy companies appeared.
		Game companies were worried that watching television would replace playing board games, so they started making games based on the TV shows kids liked.
		Now, for a board game to be appealing, it had to be challenging.
	www.patchproducts.com /teachers/historyofgames.asp (529 words)

	Board Games: A Brief History
		Board Games have been around for a long time, draughtsmen for example have been found buried in Egyptian tombs and the board game Naughts and Crosses has been discovered at British roman sites as early as the 2nd century.
		The oldest board game of all is believed to be The Royal Game of Ur which was played in Babylon for over 5,000 years.
		Board games revolving around money mainly originate from the USA, Monopoly being the most obvious which was created during the 1930's by Charles B Darrow of Pennsylvania.
	www.thelittlewoodshop.co.uk /board-games-history.php (331 words)

	Medieval & Renaissance Games
		Imran Ghory has a number of useful files relating to the history of games, including a very nice listing of period card games and when they are attested.
		Board Games Studies is an academic journal devoted specifically to research into board games.
		A variety of period games, mostly with Celtic-inspired artwork, are available from Rose and Pentagram Design, including inexpensive period-style cards and several printed-fabric board games.
	www.jducoeur.org /game-hist (1991 words)

	Examination board - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An examination board is an organisation that sets examinations and is responsible for marking them and distributing results.
		As such, examination boards have the power to award qualifications to students (such as SAT scores).
		Most exam boards are run as not-for-profit organisations.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /examination_boards.htm (118 words)

	The History of Toys and Games
		Milton Bradley was a game pioneer, credited by many with launching the game industry in North America.
		The object was to obtain a happy old age instead of financial ruin and a player's luck was decided by a numbered spinner.
		Players moved game pieces over sixty-four squares, which could be good, bad, or neutral according to their color.
	www.history.com /exhibits/toys/bradley.html (316 words)

	Board Game Downloads at Natural Games
		We strive to provide game downloads that are 100% safe.
		The Natural Games Board Games Section is a central resource for board game information, rules, software, and links, focused on the traditional and family board games that many people know and love, as well as new games you might not yet be familiar with, but which we think you'll enjoy.
		We focus on new games you might not yet be familiar with but thousands of people around the world are playing and having a great time.
	www.naturalgames.com /board_game_downloads (265 words)

	Rules to Period Games
		Five-card Cribbage at the Card Games Homepage; this is the modern five-card game, which is essentially the same as the early version.
		A detailed reconstruction of my personal favorite variation of the game (a 16th century variant), which is less common, but IMO more consistent and easier to learn and play than most versions.
		Clan na Bheithir has a good page, giving some history of the sport as well as their reconstruction of the game, and a couple of modern versions.
	www.jducoeur.org /game-hist/game-rules.html (3940 words)

	The Oxford History of Board Games
		On the downside, there is rather too much emphasis on abstract games and so much recent history missing that the modern hobby gamer seeking coverage of his favourite games will be left frustrated and puzzled.
		A secondary qualification criteria may be that a game must be an acknowledged classic or at least 'English-speaking mass market' to be included - for instance, European games are barely hinted at and sports games are dismissed in but one short paragraph - singularly unfair treatment.
		Games are located into the history, and to an extent into the social background, but the sense is very much of a survey written both as an afterthought and from a time machine.
	www.gamecabinet.com /reviews/OxfordHistoryBoardGames.html (995 words)

	Book Report 2.2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Oxford History of Board Games is a very dry read, and is exactly the type of book that turned me off of history in high school (an interest later rekindled in college).
		This is less a history of board games than a survey of them.
		I have greater interest in modern games than in abstracts, and I was disappointed that the former were given such passing attention.
	www.gamereport.com /tgr22/bookreport.html (659 words)

	CyberBee: Games Children Play
		At the Game Cabinet, Catherine Soubeyrand writes a fascinating history of ancient games commencing with Senet, an Egyptian game that may be the forerunner of backgammon.
		The object of the game is to place all of your seeds in the scoring pit and capture your opponent's seeds.
		The games, rhymes, tongue twisters, and traditions are written in the native languages.
	www.infotoday.com /MMSchools/sep02/cybe0902.htm (1498 words)

	Board Games
		“Board games are not only surviving but thriving,” says Mark Morris, spokesman for Hasbro, a company that makes many of the most popular games in the world.
		Most board games fall into one of two types: some sort of race to the finish (like Candyland and Parcheesi), or a strategic battle on the board to gain the most (squares, territory, tokens, etc.) or get rid of the most.
		Originally, board games were expensive sets of inlaid wood and carved game pieces.
	www.courier-journal.com /foryourinfo/050304/050304.html (2713 words)

	the history of board games, shopping, products, goods, store
		An organized body of administrators or investigators: a board of trustees; a board of directors.
		A period of competition or challenge: It was too late in the game to change the schedule of the project.
		A model of a competitive situation that identifies interested parties and stipulates rules governing all aspects of the competition, used in game theory to determine the optimal course of action for an interested party.
	www.board-games.goods-buy.com /the-history-of-board-games.htm (504 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Smart move
		The British Museum is sending 20 of the Lewis chessmen to a unique exhibition on the history of board games, which opens next week at the Roman fort of Segedunum, at the Newcastle end of Hadrian's Wall.
		The wall is an ideal launchpad for the museum's touring exhibition, subtitled Around the World in 18 Games; the bored, cold soldiers defending the wall distracted themselves from the rain, mist, and their lack of warm socks - a letter pleading for more survives - by scratching game boards into the stones.
		The curator of the exhibition is Irving Finkel, an expert on board games, whose knowledge extends to the 4,600-year-old Royal Game of Ur, whose rules he learned by reading them from a cuneiform-inscribed clay tile.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1391833,00.html?gusrc=rss (574 words)

	H. J. R. Murray - A History of Board-Games other than chess - 267 Seiten, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag, Reprint, 2002.: ...
		This book complements Murray's A History of Chess by providing as complete a record as possible of the other board-games that have existed in different parts of the world, showing how they were played, what is known of their history and development, and their ultimate origin.
		The main game types are introduced and discussed at length with numerous examples being added in a more notational form.
		Game diagrams on the roofing slabs of the temple at Kurna
	www.niggemann.com /Buecher/6603.html (211 words)

	Ancient and Medieval Games - History for Kids!
		Another type of game was played with wooden hoops and sticks, either tossing the hoop up in the air and trying to keep it up in the air with the sticks (rather like a hula hoop), or rolling the hoop along the ground pushing it with the stick.
		Many times we find these boards in places where men were bored, like in the doorways of guardposts, where the men (maybe slaves) had to sit all day in case somebody came.
		Oxford History of Board Games, by David Parlett (1999).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/games (551 words)

	History of Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This page is a collection of resources related to the history of games, primarily board games.
		History of Backgammon (note this is a first draft, and more a collection of my notes with some coherence added, and I plan to rewrite much of it when I have doen some more research).
		Dating period card games (work in progress), a page identifying the earliest english languages references to period card games.
	www.bits.bris.ac.uk /imran/games (207 words)

	The History of Scrabble - Board Games
		Scrabble is one of the most popular games in the world, with over 100 million games sold in 121 countries, and available in 29 languages.
		Lexico was not a success however, and he decided to combine the game he had developed with a game board which would allow players to combine words in the same manner as a crossword.
		He loved the game so much that upon return to work, he requested that several copies of the game be sent up to his office, only to find that Macy’s did not stock the game.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art7892.asp (506 words)

	Books About Board Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There are 6 different chapters dividing games into 4 categories: Western and Military games, Business, Book Shelf and Sports games, Generic games, and games from the world of entertainment.
		He focuses mainly on traditional games, the folk entertainments that have grown up organically through the centuries, and which exhibit endless local variations, although he discusses also the commercial products that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to match their astonishing popularity.
		This is not primarily a how-to book, although the rules and strategies of certain games are discussed in detail, neither does it offer sure-fire tips for success, although with a fuller understanding of a game the reader will undoubtedly become a better-informed, if not a better, player.
	www.discovergames.com /mags4.html (339 words)

	Empires of History Board Games
		Additional games cover other areas of the war in greater detail and may be played as stand alone games or merged together to create a giant WWI era game.
		Each game is a complete board game and amazingly priced at just $5 to $6.
		Join the Empires of History E-mail Discussion List to chat with other Empires of History players and discuss various games, their strategies, alternate house rules, etc, etc, and get information on forthcoming releases and special sales.
	www.guildofblades.com /empires/aboutempires.html (469 words)

	Tatet - history board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Suggested game is a kind of open card game that allows play cards openly on the game board like in chess or checkers but when the traditional methods of playing interaction in card games are used.
		History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth".
		When used as a field of study, history refers to human history, which is the recorded memory of past human societies.
	tatet.com /search-history_board.html (287 words)

	Oxford University Press: Oxford History of Board Games: David Parlett
		Here are the origins and development of our favorite games, from the Egyptian and Asian ancestors of Chess, Checkers, and Backgammon, to the invention of such modern classics as Monopoly, Clue, and Scrabble.
		Parlett groups the games in different families--such as those based on races or chases, wars or hunts, capture or blockade--and then provides a fascinating history of each family.
		And not only does he describe the rules and strategies of the games, but Parlett also draws on 20 year's experience as a professional games researcher, critic, and inventor, to offer many perceptive insights into the thinking involved in creating these games.
	www.oup-usa.org /isbn/0192129988.html (402 words)

	History of Board Games
		Quinto® is most like the Roman game, "Calculi" or "Five in a Row." Boards varied in size and were made mostly of wood, as well as stone, marble, or even silver.
		While some archeologists have referred to Calculi as Roman Checkers because of the similarity of the board and pieces, few boards were checkered in fl and white—many were just made of lines.
		Some stones and board fragments have been found as well as large bags of stones, which include roundels, the old Roman version of gambling chips.
	www.quintogame.com /history_games.html (224 words)

	Baby Shower Game, Disney Game, Popcap Game - Shopping, Services and Information at GAMESIWORLD.COM
		A game is a structured or semi-structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment.
		The term "game" is also used to describe simulation of various activities e.g., for the purposes of training, analysis or prediction, etc., see "Game (simulation)".
		History of Toys and Games - history and timeline of such classics as Barbie and slinky.
	www.gamesiworld.com (515 words)

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