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The Great Book of World Games
56 Games from 4,600 Years of Human Play — Rules, Boards and Stories from 39 Cultures, Ready to Play Tonight
Fifty-six traditional games from thirty-nine cultures spanning some 4,600 years, arranged by mechanic rather than by region into seven families — Sowing Games, Hunt and Siege, Race Home, Line and Territory and others. Each entry gives sourced provenance, complete playable rules and a deterministic vector board diagram, and the seven rule sets that are scholarly reconstructions say so in the prose. The oldest game in it is the Royal Game of Ur, at 2600 BCE. It aims at the gap between academic game history, which is authoritative but unplayable, and the cheap family-games listicle.
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