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A Gamut of Games (1969)
The original Designer’s Diary, with multiple games to explore.
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1-10 Players
30 Min
Age: 8+
Complexity: 2.32/5
Designer: Sid Sackson
Artist: Sid Sackson
Publisher: Buchclub, Castle Books, Dover Publications, dtv (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag), Hugendubel Verlag, Hutchinson
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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:
Originally published 1969 and re-published in 1982, 1992, and 2011.
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