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.

Games