String Figures and how to Make Them

String Figures and how to Make Them

Author: Caroline F. Jayne

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1962-01-01

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780486201528

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Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background


Games with Pencil and Paper

Games with Pencil and Paper

Author: Eric Solomon

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780486278728

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16 entertaining diversions for players of all ages, with clear instructions and illustrations for playing Boxes, Hangman, Three-Dimensional Noughts and Crosses (a version of Tic-Tac-Toe) and more.


Puzzles and Paradoxes

Puzzles and Paradoxes

Author: T. H. O’Beirne

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2017-08-10

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0486824861

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These marvelous, stimulating games for the mind include geometric paradoxes, cube and color arrangement puzzles, calendar paradoxes, much more. Detailed solutions prepare readers for puzzles of even greater complexity.


Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

Author: R. C. Bell

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0486145573

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This encyclopedic volume provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (Go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.


Handbook of Recreational Games

Handbook of Recreational Games

Author: Neva Leona Boyd

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780486232041

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18 categories of games ? pursuit and escape, throwing and catching, etc. ? with up to 59 games (plus variations) in a category.


Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles

Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles

Author: Lewis Carroll

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780486288611

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This challenging collection of 42 mathematical mind-benders, compiled by a noted Lewis Carroll scholar, includes Castle Croquet, A Sticky but Polished Riddle, Who's Coming to Dinner?, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Eligible Apartments, Predicting the Total, and more. Includes complete solutions and drawings by John Tenniel, the original illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.


The Great Baseball Players from McGraw to Mantle

The Great Baseball Players from McGraw to Mantle

Author: Bert Randolph Sugar

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780486289243

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Offers photographs and biographical portraits of such great baseball players as Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, and Yogi Berra