A guide to this board game and popular pastime.

Featuring a complete history of the popular board game, an updated handbook for improving Scrabble skills discusses how to maximize scores with bonus squares, make more seven-letter plays, and increase scoring average using two-letter words, and ...

A basic book on Checkers aimed at complete beginners and those Z99 a rudimentary knowledge of the game

Introduces the rules and strategies of checkers, concentrating on openings, endgames, and ploys

"Playing chess is like looking out over a limitless ocean; playing checkers is like looking into a bottomless well." Marion Tinsley, World checkers champion This extraordinary book tells the story of the creation of the world champion checkers ...

An introduction to the game of backgammon, written by a world-champion player.

Offers advice on selling a new game and discusses self-publishing, marketing, copyrights, and trademarks

For thousands of years, people have been planning attacks, captures, chases, and conquests--in short, they've been playing board games. Now, in The Oxford History of Board Games, David Parlett investigates the myriad board games that have ...

Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching; card players have a language all of their own. They can choose from games of great skill, such as bridge, to those of high chance like Newmarket. There are countless games to be played with ...