Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background

These marvelous, stimulating games for the mind include geometric paradoxes, cube and color arrangement puzzles, calendar paradoxes, much more. Detailed solutions prepare readers for puzzles of even greater complexity.

16 entertaining diversions for players of all ages, with clear instructions and illustrations for playing Boxes, Hangman, Three-Dimensional Noughts and Crosses (a version of Tic-Tac-Toe) and more.

Dozens of riddles and puzzles working with air pressure, liquids, light, motion, more.

Consists of music and dance instructions for each selection.

This encyclopedic volume provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (Go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.