Board Games
A board game is any game played on a board (that is, a premarked surface) with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. Simple board games are often seen as ideal "family entertainment" as they can provide entertainment for all ages. Some board games, such as Chess, Oware, or Go, have intense strategic value and have become lasting classics.
There are many different types and classifications of board games. Some games are simplified simulations of real life. These are popular for they can intermingle make-believe and role playing along with the game. Popular games of this type include Monopoly, which is a rough simulation of the real estate market, Clue (in Canada and the U.S.) or Cluedo (internationally), which is based upon a murder mystery, and Risk which is one of the most well known of thousands of games attempting to simulate warfare and geo-politics.
Other games only loosely, or do not at all, attempt to imitate reality. These include abstract strategy games like chess and checkers, word games, such as Scrabble, and trivia games, such as Trivial Pursuit.
Fiske, Willard. Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature—with historical notes on other table-games). Florentine Typographical Society, 1905.
Falkener, Edward. Games Ancient and Oriental, and How To Play Them. Longmans, Green and Co., 1892.
Austin, Roland G. "Greek Board Games." Antiquity 14. September 1940: 257–271
Murray, Harold James Ruthven. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Gardners Books, 1969.
Bell, Robert Charles. The Boardgame Book. London: Bookthrift Company, 1979.
Bell, Robert Charles. Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1980. ISBN 0486238555
Reprint: New York: Exeter Books, 1983.
Sackson, Sid. A Gamut of Games. Arrow Books, 1983. ISBN 0091533406
Reprint: Dover Publications, 1992. ISBN 0-486-27347-4
Schmittberger, R. Wayne. New Rules for Classic Games. John Wiley & Sons, 1992. ISBN 0-471-53621-0
Reprint: Random House Value Publishing, 1994. ISBN 0517129558
Parlett, David. Oxford History of Board Games. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0192129988
Note that some these works may suffer from cultural bias—especially Murray's work which, despite being the standard reference, tends to assume Western cultural superiority.
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