Play the Game
Play the Game - the book you can play - complete with counters and detailed rules
Introduction
Brian Love has compiled 46 vintage games, ranging from the earliest known English-language board game, A Journey Through Europe (1759) to the mid-20th Century.
This book includes color photos of the boards from 46 vintage games. Rules are included, along with a sheet of pieces to cut out, so that all of the games may be played.
List of games included
- Laurie's New and Entertaining Game of the Golden Goose
- The New Game of Human Life
- Snakes & Ladders (1)
- Harlequin
- Wallis's New Game of Universal History
- The Blue Bird
- The New Game of Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished
- Ludo, or Parcheesi
- Royal Ludo
- Game of the Good Children
- The Royal Pastime of Cupid
- The Tailless Donkey
- French Revolution
- Comic Game of the Great Exhibition of 1851
- The Siege of Paris
- Russia versus Turkey
- Spyrol
- Twiddleums
- Roarem Castle
- The Cottage of Content
- An Eccentric Excursion to the Chinese Empire
- Aero Flights
- The Diver's Luck
- Marathon Race
- Trencho
- Bobbies & Thieves
- Bagatelle
- The Invasion of Europe
- Day of a Young Mouse
- Sinnet
- Steeplechase
- Mount Everest
- Busy Bees
- Scouting
- Quartette
- Halma
- Flip-O-Hoy
- Golfo
- Footer
- Bl'nd P'g
- Whirlpool
- Hare & Hounds
- Snakes & Ladders (2)
- Aerial Attack
- Banker
- Crown & Anchor
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