Hoyle's rules of games

In 1742, Edmond Hoyle published the definitive book on whist, the most popular card game of his day.

More than 250 years later, Hoyle is still the definitive name when it comes to the rules of games, from bridge to backgammon, Scrabble to blackjack. This handy reference guide has now been updated and expanded and includes rules, strategies, and playing odds for more than 250 games.

Readers will learn how to play, hone their strategies, and settle disputes with this newest edition of the classic reference guide.

Hoyle's rules of games

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501 Essential Backgammon Problems: 2nd Edition

This comprehensive backgammon book challenges the reader with 501 essential problems to transform him into a thinking, aggressive pro-level player. Strategies and situation cover every aspect of the game, from playing positions to doubling maneuvers. Everything is carefully explained and illustrated so that the reader understands all the concepts.

501 Essential Backgammon Problems: 2nd Edition

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Backgammon for Blood

A basic backgammon book, the one essential book for learning to play the game.

Backgammon for Blood

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Backgammon For Winners, 3rd Edition

Bill Robertie did not become two-time backgammon world champion and one of the greatest players of all time by pursuing a conservative game. He calls his style "dynamic backgammon" and he teaches it in this book, aiming his lessons at the raw beginner as well as experienced players. He starts at the very beginning--setting up the board--and takes the reader through his approach to every element of play. It's an approach that pays off, as his championship record shows. The book is rich with clear diagrams and explanations, with three sample games that illustrate his points well.

Backgammon For Winners, 3rd Edition

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The New York Times Backgammon Book

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The New York Times Backgammon Book

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Odd Words For Crosswords and People in Puzzles

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Odd Words For Crosswords and People in Puzzles

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Improve Your Backgammon (Mindsports)

Improve Your Backgammon is the ideal book for those looking to advance from the basics and build a better understanding of the intricacies of backgammon. In this book, ex-British champion Paul Lamford follows on from his earlier book, Starting Out in Backgammon, to develop further the strategies needed to master this fascinating game.

Improve Your Backgammon (Mindsports)

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New Ideas in Backgammon

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New Ideas in Backgammon

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Build Word Challenge 7-1

Can't get enough of word puzzles? This is the book for you! Packed with dozens of engaging puzzles, Build Word Challenge 7-1 was derived from a Build Word Challenge card game, and the word puzzles are tons of fun and satisfying to solve. Words you don't find are furnished for you, making this puzzle book a learning tool. Test your puzzling skills and learn some new words in the process! How many words can be made from a group of seven letters? How many words can you find within a group of seven letters? You may be surprised by how many words you don't find in a seven-letter group.

Build Word Challenge 7-1

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Oxford History of Board Games

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 developed through the ages and around the world.
Here are the origins and development of our favorite games, from the Egyptian and Asian ancestors of Chess, Checkers, and Backgammon, to the invention of such modern classics as Monopoly, Clue, and Scrabble. Parlett groups the games in different families--such as those based on races or chases, wars or hunts, capture or blockade--and then provides a fascinating history of each family. Throughout the book, Parlett pays close--indeed, loving--attention to traditional games, the charming folk entertainments that have grown up through the centuries, and which exhibit endless local variations. Likewise, he devotes enthusiastic coverage to lesser-known and experimental games. Thus the book is no mere catalog of the familiar, but takes the reader into a world a games they have never known before. And not only does he describe the rules and strategies of the games, but Parlett also draws on 20 year's experience as a professional games researcher, critic, and inventor, to offer many perceptive insights into the thinking involved in creating these games. And, finally, Parlett also illuminates the significance of game-playing as a central part of human experience--as vital to a culture as its music, dance, and literature.
Written with great affection and authority, and beautifully illustrated with period art and helpful diagrams that show the finer points of the games, this is a fascinating and accessible guide to a richly rewarding subject.

Oxford History of Board Games

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Gorens Modern Backgammon Complete

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Gorens Modern Backgammon Complete

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Atherma Tiryns: Ancient Greek Board Games (Greek Edition)

There is not a single being on this earth that has not played with some game at various stages of his/her life (from infancy right up to old age). There are very simple games and complicated games which train the body, the emotions, the brain or the intellect. This research analytically presents the whole structure of games and common archetypal elements that games contain in every population all over the world, which originated from the ancient Greek and European culture, especially of the ancient Greek philosophy about the way of creating of writing and ancient board games in the region of Tiryns.

Atherma Tiryns: Ancient Greek Board Games (Greek Edition)

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Backgammon-Magnetic Poetry Travel Game

Remove all you pieces to win in this popular board game! Includes magnetic game pieces, dice and instructions. The handy zippered tin opens up flat to form the backgammon play board. The magnetic pieces are thick, grab-able and stay firmly in place, so you can "store" the game mid-play, and start up again later. Perfect for car, plane, boat and camping trips. Or tuck a game into your bag to keep kids occupied during dinner or a visit to grandma's.

Backgammon-Magnetic Poetry Travel Game

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Backgammon: The Quick Course to Winning Play

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Backgammon: The Quick Course to Winning Play

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The Card Games Pack

The Card Games Pack contains everything you need to learn to be a card shark. Complete with rules and methods of play-gambling games, brain games, contemplation games and social games-this pack includes two full sized decks of cards, a score pad and pencil, and a set of poker chips.

The Card Games Pack

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100 Backgammon Puzzles: A Champion's Guide to Testing Your Skills and Improving Your Game

Offers challenging ways to improve your game.

100 Backgammon Puzzles: A Champion's Guide to Testing Your Skills and Improving Your Game

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Begin Backgammon (Paperfronts)

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Begin Backgammon (Paperfronts)

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Teach Yourself Backgammon

This is a practical and informative introduction to the world's most ancient yet enduring board game, Backgammon. Its hands-on approach starts with the end of game, explaining the object and how to get there. It then goes back to the start to give a step-by-step introduction to moves and strategies, with key tips on what moves to make and when. It offers practical 'you try' exercises, in addition to plenty of background information on the rules, the probabilities and the history of the game. Authored by the founder and director of the UK's biggest Backgammon society, BIBA, it also contains a full glossary and a section on how to play online and how to take it further and will become an essential companion for all would-be players of this fascinating game.

Teach Yourself Backgammon

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Easy Guide to Backgammon

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Easy Guide to Backgammon

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Family Games

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Family Games

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The Mathematical Theory Behind Backgammon

Backgammon is a very interesting game to play with brothers and friends because this skill has two sides; first side, makes you feel very happy in your time like Superman when you become the winner. Second side, makes you feel in a disappointed situation and makes you unlucky when you lose. However, before the game finishes, maybe every thing changes like after a storm comes calm. Nobody knows the dice rules in the game. Indeed, it needs to have good manners from every player to keep his friend playing repeatedly. Whatever, It is a funny game by conflict without weapon in a good time on the table. The players' wisdom says, "If you are the loser in Backgammon's game, you are the winner in love.

The Mathematical Theory Behind Backgammon

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Atherma Argolida: Ancient Greek Board Games (Greek Edition)

There is not a single being on this earth that has not played with some game at various stages of his/her life (from infancy right up to old age). There are very simple games and complicated games which train the body, the emotions, the brain or the intellect. This research analytically presents the whole structure of games and common archetypal elements that games contain in every population all over the world, which originated from the ancient Greek and European culture, especially of the ancient Greek philosophy about the way of creating of writing and ancient board games in the region of Argolida.

Atherma Argolida: Ancient Greek Board Games (Greek Edition)

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The Clermont Book of Backgammon

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The Clermont Book of Backgammon

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The Complete Hoyle's Games

Following in the centuries' history of Hoyle's references as the standard for card and other game rules, this edition continues in that tradition. This present edition covers more than 50 varieties of card games, Backgammon, Draughts, Chess, Solitaire, Darts, Dominoes, Nine Men's Morris, Billiards, Pool, Snooker and many more. The preface includes a short history of Edmund Hoyle and his references, and the text is lively and informative about the background and development of the games described. In addition to the normal contents listing, there is also an alphabetical index, so that reference to any particular game may be made quickly and easily, and there are almost 100 tables, diagrams and illustrations.

The Complete Hoyle's Games

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Backgammon: The Modern Game

Rules and strategies for winning backgammon.

Backgammon: The Modern Game

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Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor to the king), occupied the square where the queen now stands. Not until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors brought chess to southern Europe, did a chess queen appear on the board. Initially she was the weakest piece, moving only one square at a time on the diagonal, yet by 1497, during the reign of Isabella of Castile, the chess queen had become the formidable force she is today.

How and why did this transformation take place? Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five-hundred-year period between the chess queen's timid emergence and her elevation into the game's mightiest piece. Marilyn Yalom, inspired by a handful of surviving medieval chess queens, traces their origin and spread from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and England to Scandinavia and Russia. In a lively and engaging narrative, Yalom draws parallels between the birth of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts, with their intrigues and internal struggles for power. Further, she shows the connection between the chess queen, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the cult of Romantic Love, all of which influenced European society for centuries to come.

Illustrated with beautiful art throughout, this book takes a fresh look at the politics and culture of medieval Europe, the institution of queenship, and the reflections of royal power in the figure of the chess queen.

Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

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Luck, Logic, and White Lies: The Mathematics of Games

The mathematical underpinnings of games, whether they are strategic or games of chance, have been known for centuries, but are usually only understood by players and aficionados who have a background in mathematics. The author has succeeded in making that knowledge accessible, entertaining, and useful to everyone who likes to play and win. The information applies to such diverse and popular games as Roulette, Monopoly™, Chess, Go, numerous card games, and many more. He reviews the mathematical foundations, probability, combinatorics, and mathematical game theory, the field that won John Nash of A Beautiful Mind the Nobel Prize, and emphasizes the implementation of these techniques so that players can put them to work immediately.

Luck, Logic, and White Lies: The Mathematics of Games

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Goren's Modern Backgammon Complete

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Goren's Modern Backgammon Complete

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Seven Popular Games of Backgammon

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Seven Popular Games of Backgammon

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Complete Backgammon

"Backgammon is a contest in mathematics. Throughout the progress of a game, the laws of mathematical chances, probabilities, permutations, etc., operate inexorably in the long run. The one who wins is he who most intelligently employs the law of averages, and the loser is he who finds the probabilities working against him because he does not understand them." First published in 1931 (and reprinted in 1940), Complete Backgammon offers strategies for both the beginner and advanced player.

Complete Backgammon

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