A Gamut of Games

This book offers rules for thirty-eight games that are playable with ordinary gaming equipment (cards, dice, a checkers set, pen and paper). The games in this book cover a wide variety of topics and skill levels - including games of strategy, chance, and logic.

A full list of the games that appear in this book include:

• Mate
• Blue and Gray
• Le Truc
• Plank
• Zetema
• Hekaton
• Lines of Action
• Cups
• Crossings
• LAP
• Three Musketeers
• Skedoodle
• Paks
• Knight Chase
• Origins of World War I
• All My Diamonds
• Osmosis
• Patterns
• Suit Yourself
• Bowling Solitaire
• Card Baseball
• SLAM!
• Poke
• Color Gin
• Focus
• Network
• Take it Away
• Hold that Line
• Cutting Corners
• Paper Boxing
• Last Word
• Patterns II
• Property
• Solitaire Dice (Re-implemented as Can't Stop Express. Extra! is a variant of Solitaire Dice)
• Domino Bead Game (Re-implemented as Wu Hsing)
• Haggle
• The No Game
• Change Change

Also includes 300 capsule reviews of other games, including:

• The Economy Game

Originally published 1969 and re-published in 1982, 1992, and 2011.