About the craft projects in Games To Make:
In Games To Make create games played around the world and games played long ago. Games to Make features board games, card games, and outdoor games from different cultures with an emphasis on fun. Learn the rules of over forty games and how to make all the equipment needed to play the games. Each project includes rules of each game and an article on the background and history on the games in the project.
Designed for ages 8 and up.
With supervision and reading help, younger children will enjoy these projects, too.
The projects and games in Games To Make are:
- Board Solitaire - English, French, Triangle, and Triangle Plus
- Hunt Board Games - Catch the Hare, Fox and Geese, Len Choa, and Pulijudam
- Games of Mancala - Hus, Kiuthi, Pallanguli, and Wari
- Alquerque (War) Board Games - Alquerque, Awithlaknannai, Dash Guti, and Lau Kata Kati
- Morris (Alignment) Board Games - Achi, Dara, Nine Men's Morris, and Picaria
- Pachisi (circle and cross) Board Games - Asi Keliya, Chinesenspiel, Nyout, and Pachisi
- Spiral and Square Race Games - Goose, Hyena Game, Sadurangam, and Snakes and Ladders
- Match Card Games - Catch the Dog, Concentration, Go Fish, and Snip, Snap, Snorem
- Dice Games from East and West - Basket Dice, Das Gluckhaus, Lu-Lu, and Mon Shi Mo Ut
- Games of Dominoes - Block Game, Disputing Tens, Fishing, and Matador
- Outdoor Skill Games - Bean Bag Toss, Fish, Horseshoes, and Ring Toss
- Game Equipment - playing pieces, cowrie, dice, number tops, and chinesenspiel
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The articles included on the history of the games are:
- About Board Solitaire, ponder the origins of this popular game also known as Peg Solitaire
- A Little About Cards, modern playing card games have developed over the last 1000 years
- About Hunt Games, trace the development of these two-player hunter and prey games
- About Mancala Games, Africa is the home to these pit and pebble and hole and seed games
- About Alquerque Games, these war games of the battle variety are among the oldest games
- About Games of Alignment, learn about variations played all around the world
- Dice Games, from ancient Sumeria and Egypt to North America and Hawaii, dice games have been popular through the ages and around the world
- About Dominoes, learn of the Chinese origins of kwat p'ai (bone tablets)
- About Circle and Cross Race Games, pachisi or twenty-five developed in ancient India, see where it went from there
- About Race Games, trace the spread of race games around the world
- Games of Skill, learn the hunting roots of these games
- Game Equipment, learn how equipment developed along with the games
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