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The New Games Treasury

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This is a great book. The card games alone make it a terrific resource but then add homemade board games, dice games, guessing games, outdoor games for all ages children to adult, and you have hours and hours of fun in a book. The directions are straightforward and easy to follow. The games index lets you choose a game by number of players, complexity, time, and age level with notations for variations, equipment needed and a distinction between quiet and active games. Our family has learned many new games we had never even dreamed about - we even learned to play bocce ball with croquet balls! Buy it if you like to play games.

Many people know of "Hoyle"-branded game rule books, but this book deserves much greater recognition and acclaim. In addition to presenting one of the best modern collections of game rules, Mohr delves into the interesting histories behind the games. (Did you know that croquet was once banned as an immoral sport?) From board games to outdoor games to party games, Mohr clearly and entertainingly presents a delightful and diverse set of game entertainments for all ages.

Other sources will, of course, present more comprehensive sets of rules for card games (www.pagat.com), dice games (Knizia's "Dice Games Properly Explained"), and other types of games. From my full shelf of game rule books, this is the beautiful and balanced one I would recommend to a friend who is seeking their first.

I'm so glad I purchased this book. I've been looking at it for hours at a time since I got it. There's sure to be a game that everyone in your family will enjoy. Outdoor, dice, card (many variations, including solitaire games), stones, beans, shells, pen & paper, domino, board (some requiring special pieces, like Chess and Monopoly), parlor, travel, really old, and somewhat new games! Buy it if for no other reason than to settle family arguments about rules!

Got a big yard or park nearby and lots of friends? Play Capture the Flag, Touch or Flag Football, Prisoner's Base, Red Rover, Dodge Ball or tons of other outdoor games requiring little or no equipment.

Like word games? There's a section for those, too!

Got a little one who's lonely and bored? Teach 'em how to play various forms of Hopscotch, Jacks, Jump Rope, or Marbles.

Want a global, multi-cultural gaming persprective? Try the Mancala games, dreidels, or French Tarot games (these all require special equipment).

I bought it for the information about horseshoes, croquet, and bocce (lawn bowling). It gives dimensions for the playing area, rules, even a little strategy! I am not kidding you, this book is great if you have kids to entertain, or just really love a good game.

I plan to teach my fiancee how to play chess this weekend using the very comprehensive instructions this book provides.

This is a well-organized book that offers the history of and rules of play for many different kinds of games, indoors and out, with playing pieces and without. One of the many things I enjoy about this book is that you can flip through it and your eyes will be caught by a two-color illustration of some game, such as a card game, and you may think, "Hmm, that looks interesting." Then you read about the game and most likely play it.

"The New Games Treasury" is a fantastic resource. With rules for hundreds of card games, dice games, outdoors games, board games you can make yourself with a piece of paper and some beans, and for board games whose directions may long since have gotten lost, this book should be on the shelf of every family. It should never have been allowed to go out of print, and if the author ever gets her rights back I fervently hope she puts it out in ebook form. Highly recommended.

This is a review for an earlier edition (the one that has 300 favorites): what a wonderful resource -- we use it when the kids are stuck indoors after a series of rainy days, or when we have company (adult or kids). It has games for one, two, or many; board games, card games, word games, outdoor games -- you name it, the book has it. We like our, now dog-eared, book so much that we wanted to get it as a gift and we were very disappointed to find that it was out-of-print. Well, let us hope that the third edition is coming up.