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.
