The Jaques Project - Games

This section is awaiting a Games expert to create and manage it.

 

Chopsticks (above) and Mixed Pickles (opposite) were both sold as Games; however they can also be played as Dexterity Puzzles by one person.

An amusing letter in a copy of the 1st edition of Jaques Rules of Croquet in the Puzzle Museum Library.

From Rupert Hart-Davis to Stephen Potter the author if the inimitable books on Gamesmanship and One-Upmanship.


Thanks to Tony Marchant for kind permission to use the photos below of

The New Parlour
Compendium of Games

From around 1910; it contained a very broad assortment of games.

 

 
   
GAMES --- MAGIC --- PUZZLES --- TREEN --- ADVERTISEMENTS

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