Game Pieces | 1 |
Basic Game Rules | 2 |
Which Player Gets Each Color and Which Player Goes First? | 3 |
Achi (Africa) | 4 |
Horseshoe (China) | 5 |
Tac Tix (Denmark in the 1940s) | 6 |
Fox and Geese (Iceland before 1300 A.D.) | 8 |
Ovid's Game (Before 8 A.D. when Jesus was a boy) | 10 |
Four Field Kono (Korea) | 11 |
Seega (Egypt before 1324 B.C.) | 12 |
Derrah (Nigeria, Africa) | 15 |
El-Quirkat (Arabia before 1400 B.C.) or Alquerque (Spain) | 16 |
Chinese Checkers (Boston, Massachusetts in 1883 or 1884) | 18 |
Checkers or Draughts (France around 1100 A.D.) | 20 |
Checker Solitaire and Diamond Chinese Checkers | 22 |
Triangular Checkers and The Fox and the Hounds | 23 |
Nine Men's Morris (Egypt before 1400 B.C.) | 24 |
Mu Torere (New Zealand) | 26 |
Gomoku (Japan between 794 to 1185 A.D.) | 28 |
Dai Hasami Shogi (Japan) | 30 |
Petteia (Greece before 360 B.C.) | 32 |
Latrunculi (Rome before 27 B.C.) | 34 |
Hnefatafl, The Viking Game (Scandinavia before 400 A.D.) | 36 |
Go (Japan) or Bakuk (Korea) or Wei Ch'i (China before 2258 B.C.) | 39 |
Pyramid Solitaire | 45 |
Square Solitaire and Nine Men Solitaire (United States in early 1900s) | 46 |
Hexagon Solitaire | 47 |
Six Men Solitaire or Leap Frog (early 1900s) | 48 |
Eight Men Solitaire | 48 |
Sixteen Men Solitaire or Sixteen Puzzle or Fore and Aft Puzzle (England in the 1800s) | 48 |
Square Four Corner Solitaire (1800s) | 49 |
Eight Point Star Solitaire | 49 |
French Solitaire (France in 1600s) | 50 |
English Solitaire | 52 |
Solutions to Some of the Solitaire Games | 54 |
Index | 55 |
About the Author | 56 |