Table of Contents

1. In Search of Big and Little Game Mate Blue and Gray Le Truc Plank Zetema Hekaton 2. Game Inventors Are People Too Lines of Action Cups Crossings Lap Three Musketeers Paks Skedoodle Knight Chase Origins of World War I 3. Those Protean Pieces of Pasteboard All My Diamonds Osmosis Patterns Suit Yourself Bowling Solitaire Card Baseball Slam Poke Color Gin 4. New Battles on an Old Battlefield Focus Network Take it Away 5. Grab a Pencil Hold That Line Cutting Corners Paper Boxing Last Word Patterns II Property 6. A Miscellany of Games Solitaire Dice Domino Bead Game Haggle The No Game Change Change Appendix

About the Author

A leading inventor and collector of games, Sid Sackson was an authority on game history who possessed a collection of more than 18,000 games. He served as an advisor and consultant to game inventors and design companies around the world.