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The Great Book of World Games
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Fifty-two printable boards drawn from the book's own diagrams — the Royal Game of Ur, Senet, Hnefatafl, Oware and forty-eight more, each scaled up to fill a Letter sheet — with an index of all sixty-three games, a cut-out card for each and score sheets. Free, no sign-up.
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Boards that have been played for five thousand years
Print a board from this page, find a handful of counters, and a game somebody played in Ur, or among the Zuni, is on your table tonight. Every board here is the book's own diagram, scaled up to fill a sheet of Letter paper.
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- Cultures
- 42Cultures
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Boards pack
PDF · US Letter · 52 pages
Fifty-two boards, one to a page and scaled up to fill a Letter sheet: the sowing boards from Oware to Bao, the Royal Game of Ur and Senet, Hnefatafl and Tablut, Nine Men's Morris, Pachisi, Patolli, Yut Nori, Xiangqi, Shogi and the rest. Each page names the game and the pages of its setup and rules in the paperback, hardcover and large print. Print on card or slip the page under glass, add counters, and the game is ready to play.
Open PDF208 KBGame index
PDF · US Letter · 3 pages
All sixty-three games in the book's own order, with players, time, age, difficulty, where each comes from and the page it starts on. Use it to pick tonight's game before you open the book. The page numbers are this edition's: a copy of 258 pages (paperback or hardcover) or 498 pages (large print). Earlier copies of the sixty-three games have them in the same order under different page numbers; the first printing, with fifty-six games, has its own sheets below.
Open PDF63 KBQuick-reference cards
PDF · US Letter · 16 pages
One cut-out card for each of the sixty-three games: players, time, age, difficulty, what you need, the goal and the setup, and the pages where the full rules, the worked turn and the sources are. Four to a sheet with cut lines, so nobody has to hold the book open at the table.
Open PDF104 KBScore sheets
PDF · US Letter · 30 pages
A general score sheet, one for six players, a match record, and sheets laid out for twenty-seven of the games. Print as many as you need.
Open PDF82 KBFirst printing (56 games): game index
PDF · US Letter · 3 pages
For copies of the first printing, which has fifty-six games on 160 pages: the game index with that printing's page numbers.
Open PDF75 KBFirst printing (56 games): quick-reference cards
PDF · US Letter · 14 pages
A card for each of the first printing's fifty-six games, with that printing's page numbers.
Open PDF87 KBFirst printing (56 games): boards pack
PDF · US Letter · 32 pages
The thirty-one boards made for the first printing, kept for its owners. It includes the Totolospi board, which the current pack does not.
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Everything on this page is Valice Press's own work, generated from the book's manuscript data: the boards are the book's own vector diagrams, and the cards and index restate the book's player counts, times, ages and page numbers. The full rules and the stories stay in the book.