New Games Book [Paperback]

New Games Foundation (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 193 pages
• Publisher: Main Street Books (September 8, 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 038512516X
• ISBN-13: 978-0385125161
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #283,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Playing for Fun, October 29, 2000

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Suzanne Crooker (Stoneham, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Games Book (Paperback)

This book is an excellent resource for anyone who needs to find activities for any size group. The choices of games are numerous and the activity level can be varied to suit the group. It's a wonderful example of of how games can be used for fun, and everyone is a winner because they can play to their own level of ability.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly as I remembered it from the early 80's, February 23, 2010

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Larry Slocum - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Games Book (Paperback)

I lost this book years ago and was delighted when I found it available on Amazon. I can always find an activity that works when I need an opening activity for adult team building training.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A collection of socially dynamical play spaces, May 15, 2006

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Paul Sas "Paul Whitmore Sas" (Berkeley) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Games Book (Paperback)

This book shows its roots in the late 60s, early 70s, and yet it still holds a great deal of originality. Stewart Brand reveals in the opening essay that he wanted to get hippies out of their heads, when they were busy protesting the war. So he organized a physical game, called Slaughter, where people had to work to pull (not push) each other off a mat. The games outlined in this book include some new, some old (British bull dog), and some that may have been new at the time but now are classics (Frisbee golf). Another aspect of this that seems dated is the attempt to bind in a book a lot of social practices that were evolving; it seems so compelling today to think of how much such a write up would benefit from being a web site rather than a paperback.