Game Pieces | 1 |
Four Sided Die and Four Throw Sticks | 2 |
Basic Game Rules | 3 |
Which Player Gets Each Color and Which Player Goes First? | 4 |
Pong hau k'l (China) | 5 |
Five Field Kono (Korea) | 6 |
Hunting Animals (North American Indians) | 7 |
Teeko (John Scarne in 1937 and revised in 1952) | 8 |
The Royal Game of Ur (Sumeria, Mesopotamia around 2,500 B.C.) | 10 |
Senet (Thirty Squares) (Egypt around 2,650 B.C.) | 12 |
Palm Tree Game (Hounds and Jackals) (Thebes, Egypt around 2,000 B.C.) | 14 |
Checkers or Draughts (France around 1100 A.D.) (This game is also in Volume One) | 16 |
Turkish Checkers (Turkey) | 16 |
Diagonal Checkers and Pyramid Checkers | 18 |
German, Russian, Italian, and Thai Checkers | 19 |
Polish, Continental, or International Checkers (Paris, France around 1727) | 20 |
Tablut (Lapland, Finland before 1732) | 22 |
Serpents and Stone Warriors (North American Indians) | 24 |
Sixteen Soldiers (India) | 26 |
Asalto or Assault (Soldiers and Patriots) (Germany, Spain, France, England, Sweden) | 28 |
The Queen’s Guard | 30 |
Ringo (Castle Siege) (Germany in the late 1800s) | 32 |
Chasing the Girls (Iceland before 200 A.D.) | 34 |
Tourne-Case (France in the 1600s) | 36 |
Tabula (Rome, Italy before 100 A.D.) | 38 |
Thirteen Position Solitaire | 40 |
Six by Six Square Solitaire | 42 |
Continental Solitaire | 44 |
Solutions to Some of the Solitaire Games | 46 |
Index | 47 |
About the Author | 48 |