Alphabetical Archive and Index

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Alphabetical Index of Products

Alphabetical Index of Games

• Achi
• Agon
• Alea Evangelii
• Alquerque
• The Amusing Game of Kilkenny Cats
• Asalto
• Awithlaknannai
• Backgammon
• Bagh Chal
• Bagh Guti
• Brandub
• Captain's Mistress
• Catch the Hare
• Chaturaji
• Chaturanga
• Chaupar
• Chess
• Chinese Checkers
• Choko
• Coan Ki
• Courier Game
• Dablot Prejjesne
• Dara
• Dogs and Jackals
• Draughts
• Egara Guti
• Eleven Men's Morris
• Fanorona
• Felli
• Five Field Kono
• Five Men's Morris
• Four Field Kono
• Four Seasons Chess
• Fox & Geese
• Gabata
• The Game of the Goose
• The Game of Twenty Squares
• Go
• Grasshopper
• Halma
• Hare & Hounds
• Hat Diviyan Keliya
• Hnefatafl
• Horseshoe
• Hyena
• Kerala
• Konane
• Lau Kata Kati
• Leapfrog
• Len Choa
• Liubo
• Ludo
• Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum
• Ludus Latrunculorum
• Madelinette
• Mak-ruk
• Mancala
• Mefuvha
• Mehen
• Meurimüeng Rimüeng Do
• Ming Mang
• Mu torere
• Nard
• Nine Holes
• Nine Men's Morris
• Nyout
• Pachisi
• Patolli
• Petteia
• Pretwa
• Pulijudam
• Puluc
• The Queah Game
• Rafaya
• Renju
• Reversi
• Royal Game of Ur
• Salta
• Saturankam
• Seega
• Senet
• Shatranj
• Shogi
• Sittuyin
• Six Men's Morris
• Sixpenny Maddell
• Sixteen Soldiers
• Surakarta
• Tâb
• T'shu-p'u
• Tablan
• Tablut
• Tawlbwrdd
• Thaayam
• Three Men's Morris
• Twelve Men's Morris
• Wari
• Xiang Qi
• Yoté
• Zamma
• Zohn Ahl

Alphabetical Index of Pages

• Alphabetical Archive and Index
• Alquerque Games
• Ancient Games
• Battle Games
• Bibliography
• Books
• Building Games
• Chess games
• Cyningstan Games Gallery
• Early Modern Games
• From A Book of Historic Board Games
• Games Around the World
• Games from the Libro de los Juegos
• Games of Africa
• Games of All Kinds
• Games of Asia
• Games of Australasia and the Pacific Islands
• Games of Europe
• Games of the Americas
• Games of the World
• Games Throughout History
• Halma Games
• Hnefatafl Games
• Hunt Games
• Latest Comments
• Latest News
• Learn About Traditional Board Games
• Mancala Games
• Mediaeval Games
• Merels, or Morris Games
• On-line Play Links
• Other Collections
• Other Sites of Interest
• Petteia Game Family
• Play the Games
• Print-and-play Downloads
• Race Games
• Thank you!
• A Time for Play
• Traditional Board Games Leaflets
• Traditional Games Blog

Alphabetical Index of Posts

• The Agon Board Arrives!
• Agon Now Has Print-and-Play
• Agon, and a New Style of Product
• Agon: One of the Earliest Hexagonal Games
• Alfonso's Book of Games
• Asalto Week: a Play-test at Cyningstan
• Asalto: the Game of Siege
• Best Wishes for Christmas 2014
• A Bibliography Update
• Board Games Fit for St. George's Day
• A Book for a Rainy Day
• Colour Comes to Print-and-play Downloads
• The Comeback Mechanism in Nine Men's Morris
• D. B. Pritchard: Brain Games: World's Best Games for Two
• D. Parlett: The Oxford History of Board Games
• Fanorona: an Unusual Method of Capture
• For Animal Lovers: Game Themes from History
• Games Around the World: Ancient Egypt
• Games Around the World: Ancient Greece and Rome
• Games Around the World: Historical China
• Games Around the World: India Through the Ages
• Games Around the World: Korea
• Games Around the World: Lapland
• Games Around the World: Mediaeval Spain
• Games Around the World: Pre-Columbian America
• Games Round the World: North Africa
• H. J. R. Murray: A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess
• Halma's Spoiling Strategy Revisited
• Halma: a Race Game Without Luck
• Happy New Year! A Review of 2014
• A History of Board Games: Is It Possible?
• In Search of the Lost Games
• In Summary: a Book Deep But Not Encyclopaedic
• An Interesting Addition to the Print & Play Page
• Jungle Chess - a (Probably) Modern Game in the Traditional Style
• Konane: a Cultural Gem from Hawaii
• Luck Versus Skill: a Sliding Scale
• Mediaeval Chess and the Need for Speed
• New Book Examines Board Games in Depth
• New Game in Development: Konane
• New on site: Games to print-and-play!
• New web site for Cyningstan
• Nine Men's Morris Problem
• Nine Men's Morris: a Worldwide Classic
• On Old Board Games That Aren't Old
• Other Games on the Backgammon Board
• Pachisi: More Sophisticated Than You Think
• Print and Play File for Fanorona
• The Proper Shape of Awithlaknannai
• R. C. Bell: Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations
• Recent Book Features in Local Newspaper
• Refining the Royal Game of Ur
• Renju: the Aristocrat of Five-in-a-Row Games
• Respect for Pachisi
• Shatranj problem, April 2014
• Shatranj Problem, April 2015
• Shatranj Problem, February 2015
• Shatranj Problem, July 2015
• Shatranj Problem, June 2014
• Shatranj problem, June 2015
• Shatranj problem, March 2014
• Shatranj problem, March 2015
• Shatranj problem, May 2014
• Shatranj Problems
• Solution to Shatranj Problem, July 2015
• Tablan - "First" Impressions
• Tablan: a New Game in the Shop
• Tablut: a Curious Hybrid of Battle and Hunt
• Tâb: a Battle Game That Looks Like a Race
• To Theme or Not to Theme?
• Togyzkumalak Championship in Germany
• Traditional Board Games for Four
• Traditional Board Games for Gaming Night?
• Traditional Board Games for Three
• Unspoiling Halma
• Viking Game a Hit at Local Arts Festival
• Wari: From a Huge African Family
• What are these "Traditional Board Games"?
• Where Next from Noughts and Crosses?
• Writing the History of Hunt Games
• Xiang Qi: an Interesting Variant of Chess

Alphabetical Index of Downloads

• Agon Leaflet
• Agon Print-and-play
• Alea Evangelii Leaflet
• Alquerque Leaflet
• Alquerque Print-and-play
• Alquerque Variants Leaflet
• Asalto Leaflet
• Asalto Print-and-play
• Awithlaknannai Print-and-play
• Bagh Chal Leaflet
• Bagh Guti Leaflet
• Bibliography of Traditional Board Games
• Brandub Leaflet
• Brandub Print-and-play
• Brandub Print-and-play (b&w)
• Captain's Mistress Leaflet
• Catch the Hare Leaflet
• Courier Game Leaflet
• Dablot Prejjesne Leaflet
• Dablot Prejjesne Print-and-play
• Dara Leaflet
• Dogs and Jackals Leaflet
• Fanorona Leaflet
• Fanorona Print-and-play
• Five & Six Men's Morris Print-and-play
• Five Field Kono Leaflet
• Four Field Kono Leaflet
• Four Handed Dice Chess Leaflet
• Four Seasons Chess Leaflet
• Fox & Geese Leaflet
• French Military Game Leaflet
• Gabata Leaflet
• Go Leaflet
• Halma Print-and-play
• Halma, Grasshopper and Chinese Checkers Leaflet
• Horseshoe and Madelinette Leaflet
• Kerala Leaflet
• Konane Leaflet
• Konane Print-and-play
• Leapfrog Leaflet
• Len Choa Leaflet
• Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum Leaflet
• Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum Print-and-play
• Mak-ruk Leaflet
• Mefuhva Leaflet
• Meurimüeng Rimüeng Do Print-and-play
• Ming Mang Leaflet
• Mu Torere Leaflet
• Nine Men's Morris Leaflet
• Nine Men's Morris Print-and-play
• Nyout Leaflet
• Other Morris Games Leaflet
• Pachisi Leaflet
• Pachisi Print-and-play
• Petteia and Ludus Latrunculorum Leaflet
• Pulijudam Leaflet
• Puluc Leaflet
• Renju Leaflet
• Renju Print-and-play
• Reversi Leaflet
• Royal Game of Ur Leaflet
• Salta Leaflet
• Saturankam Leaflet
• Seega Leaflet
• Senet Leaflet
• Shatranj Leaflet
• Shogi Leaflet
• Sittuyin Leaflet
• Surakarta Leaflet
• Surakarta Print-and-play
• Tâb print-and-play
• T'shu-p'u Leaflet
• Tablan Leaflet
• Tablut Leaflet
• Tablut Print-and-play
• Tablut Print-and-play (b&w)
• Tawlbwrdd Leaflet
• Thaayam Leaflet
• Three Men's Morris Print-and-play
• Wari Leaflet
• Wari Print-and-play
• Xiang Qi Leaflet
• Xiang Qi Print-and-play
• Yoté and Choko Leaflet
• Yoté Print-and-play

Alphabetical Index of Images

• 13-piece hnefatafl game by Cyningstan.
• A 19th century asalto board.
• 20 squares board, with the course of the blue pieces shown.
• Agon board at the start of play.
• Agon leaflet
• Agon print-and-play front page.
• Alea Evangelii drawing
• Alea Evangelii laid out ready to start play
• Alea Evangelii leaflet
• Alea evangelii, from a mediaeval manuscript.
• Alquerque (no backdrop)
• Alquerque applet
• Alquerque at the start of a game.
• Alquerque in the mediaeval Book of Games
• Alquerque leaflet
• Alquerque publicity photograph
• Alquerque Variants leaflet
• The Amusing Game of Kilkenny Cats
• Annotated ludus duodecim scriptorum board.
• Arrangement of salta pieces at the start of the game.
• Article about Historic Board Games Book
• Asalto board with the rebels set out for play.
• Asalto leaflet
• An assortment of games
• Awithlaknakwe, from Culin's Games of the North American Indians
• Awithlaknannai as depicted in H. J. R. Murray's book.
• Awithlaknannai laid out for play.
• Awithlaknannai, by Cyningstan.
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• A backgammon set from the American Civil War.
• Bagh Chal leaflet
• Bagh chal, with tigers in position ready for play.
• Bagh guti at the start of the game.
• Bagh Guti leaflet
• Beautiful Islamic architecture in Morocco
• Board and opening position of Surakarta.
• The board for dogs & jackals.
• The board for five and six men's morris
• The board for hyena.
• The board for len choa and hat diviyan keliya
• The board used for a number of leopard games.
• A Book of Historic Board Games in hardback and paperback.
• A Book of Historic Board Games: front cover
• A box will be provided to hold the konane pieces.
• Brandub (summer) by Cyningstan
• Brandub (winter) by Cyningstan
• Brandub applet
• Brandub assembled and ready to play (mockup)
• Brandub leaflet
• Brandub old style
• The brandub print-and-play board
• The burn marks on the unfinished laser etched agon board.
• The Captain's Mistress leaflet
• Catch the Hare in the Libro de los juegos.
• Catch the Hare leaflet
• Catch the hare: starting layout.
• The centre square of the laser etched agon board has extra decoration.
• The chaturanga board set out for play.
• A chess knight
• The Chess Players, by Lucas van Leyden, shows a game of courier chess.
• Chess, the archetypal board game
• Chichen Itza, Mayan Pyramid.
• Children's Games by Pieter Bruegel.
• Chinese checkers, made by Jaques of London.
• Chinese checkers, set out for six to play.
• A close-up of the laser etched agon board's decoration.
• Coan ki illustrated by Edward Hyde in 1694.
• Coan ki set out for play.
• The Colosseum in Rome
• Cordoba Cathedral
• The Courier Game
• Courier Game leaflet
• The dablot prejjesne board set out for play.
• Dablot Prejjesne drawing
• Dablot Prejjesne leaflet
• Dablot Prejjesne Photograph
• Dablot Prejjesne print & play front page.
• Damian Walker plays hnefatafl with a visitor
• Dara leaflet
• A diagram of the tenth-century brandub board found at Ballinderry in Ireland.
• Dogs & Jackals leaflet
• Dogs and Jackals game, c. 1814-1806 B.C.
• Drawing of a pachisi game in progress.
• Drawing of a pulijudam game in progress.
• The early stages of a game of Yoté.
• Egara Guti, set out for play.
• The empty board for eleven and twelve men's morris.
• The empty choko board.
• The empty patolli board
• The empty seega board.
• The empty sixpenny maddell board.
• The empty Yoté board.
• Engraving of a game of draughts.
• An example set-up for leapfrog (Murray's version)
• Examples of movement and capture in yoté
• Fanorona (no backdrop)
• Fanorona leaflet
• Fanorona, by Cyningstan
• Felli starting layout
• First page of the awithlaknannai print-and-play file.
• First page of the U.S. patent for salta.
• Five Field Kono leaflet
• Five field kono starting layout
• Five/six men's morris print-and-play front page.
• Four Field Kono applet
• Four Field Kono leaflet
• Four field kono set out for play.
• Four Handed Dice Chess leaflet
• Four Seasons Chess leaflet
• Four seasons chess, from the Libro de Juegos.
• Four seasons chess, starting position.
• Fox & Geese leaflet
• French Military Game
• French Military Game leaflet
• Frogs & Toads
• Front page of the alquerque print-and-play file.
• Front page of the bibliography
• Front page of the pachisi print-and-play file.
• Front sheet of the Asalto print and play file.
• Front sheet of the fanorona print and play file.
• The fully-populated konane board.
• The gabata board, with routes of movement indicated.
• Gabata leaflet
• The game of 20 squares, c. 1550-1295 B.C.
• The game of go, with some tactical positions
• A game of konane just begun (hand-made set).
• A game of Ludo
• A game of Patolli overseen by the god Macuilxochitl
• The game of the goose.
• Game setup in chaturaji.
• Game sheet from the Tâb Print-and-play file.
• Games are indigenous to every inhabited continent.
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• Go leaflet
• Grasshopper set out for play.
• Grasshopper, played on a draughts board.
• Greek statuette group around a game of petteia.
• Halma leaflet
• Halma print-and-play file front page.
• Halma set out for four players.
• Halma spoiling strategy in action.
• Halma, in a modern Spears edition.
• A hand-made wooden pachisi set.
• A hand-made wooden puluc set.
• Hnefatafl (no backdrop)
• Hnefatafl at Jocly
• Hnefatafl game, by Cyningstan
• Hnefatafl starting layout
• Home-made agon board with borrowed chess pieces.
• A home-made renju board with glass pieces.
• Horseshoe and Madelinette leaflet
• Horseshoe starting layout
• An illustration of play in tablan.
• Initial layout for draughts
• Initial layout for the Queah game
• Initial layout of a game of brandub.
• Initial layout of a shogi game.
• Initial layout of fox & geese. The fox may be placed anywhere.
• Initial layout of the pieces in fanorona
• The initial set-up for saturankam.
• The initial setup for pretwa.
• The japanese games of (from left to right) shogi, go and sugoroku, c.1780.
• Kerala leaflet
• Knights Templar playing chess.
• Konane leaflet
• Konane print-and-play front page
• A large tâb game depicted by Hyde, 1694.
• Laser etched agon board, unfinished.
• The layout for tawlbwrdd proposed by R. C. Bell
• Leapfrog leaflet
• Len Choa leaflet
• The longer version of awithlaknannai.
• Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum leaflet
• Ludus duodecim scriptorum print-and-play front page.
• Ludus Latrunculorum applet
• Mak ruk with pieces set out for play.
• Makruk leaflet
• Mefuhva leaflet
• Mefuhva, set out for play.
• A mehen board at the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago
• Meurimüeng Rimüeng Do print-and-play board
• Ming Mang at the start of play.
• Ming Mang leaflet
• A mock up for konane using a hnefatafl board and black/white pieces.
• A mock up for konane using a hnefatafl board and red/blue pieces.
• A modern fox & geese set.
• A modern hnefatafl set.
• A modern tâb set ready for play.
• A modern travel shogi set.
• A modern wari set
• Movement around the coan ki board
• Movement in petteia.
• Movement of pieces in dara.
• Movement of pieces in the second phase of nine men's morris.
• Mu torere board at the start of a game.
• Mu Torere leaflet
• The mysterious game board from Knossos.
• Nard, or latrunculi, set out for play.
• New Hnefatafl Site, 2013
• New web site for June 2012
• Nine men's morris (no backdrop)
• Nine men's morris applet
• Nine men's morris at Beamish museum
• Nine men's morris in Libro de los Juegos, 1283.
• Nine men's morris leaflet
• Nine Men's Morris print-and-play front sheet.
• Nine men's morris puzzle.
• Nine Men's Morris, by Cyningstan
• Nine men's morris, by Oxbow Games and the York Archaeological Trust.
• Noughts and crosses in a children's playground.
• Nyout leaflet
• Nyout publicity photograph
• Other Morris Games leaflet
• Our compact brandub game
• Our wooden tablut game
• The pachisi board, showing the south player's route.
• Pachisi leaflet
• Path for the black pieces; the white pieces mirror this.
• Petteia & Ludus Latrunculorum leaflet
• Petteia applet
• A pile of dice
• Placement example in captain's mistress.
• Point notation and movement direction in nyout
• Princess Soubise playing solitaire, 1687.
• Pulijudam leaflet
• Pulijudam with the tigers set out for play.
• Puluc game set out at the start of play.
• Puluc leaflet
• Pyramids of ancient Egypt
• Queen Nefertari playing senet in a tomb painting.
• The rafaya board.
• Reindeer, a common sight in Lapland.
• Renju leaflet
• Renju print-and-play front page.
• Reversi leaflet
• Route of the pieces around the kerala board.
• The route of the pieces for the south-sitting player in thaayam
• Royal Game of Ur at the British Museum
• Royal Game of Ur leaflet
• Royal Game of Ur publicity photograph
• A running mill in nine men's morris.
• Salta leaflet
• Saturankam leaflet
• Scene from the European Togyzkumalak Championship in Schweinfurt, Germany
• Screen shot of the new web site
• A seega game in progress.
• Seega leaflet
• Seega Red/Blue
• Senet
• The senet board with squares numbered, to show the direction of travel.
• Senet game, c. 1550-1295 B.C.
• Senet leaflet
• Shatranj leaflet
• Shatranj problem, April 2014
• Shatranj problem, April 2015
• Shatranj Problem, February 2015
• Shatranj problem, July 2015
• Shatranj problem, June 2014
• Shatranj problem, June 2015
• Shatranj problem, March 2014
• Shatranj problem, March 2015
• Shatranj problem, May 2014
• Shiva and Parvati playing chaupar, a relative of pachisi.
• Shogi leaflet
• A shrine in Korea
• The sittuyin board, with soldiers in their initial positions
• Sittuyin leaflet
• Sixteen soldiers set out for play.
• Solution to July 2015 shatranj problem.
• Some example positions in renju.
• The start of a game of shatranj.
• Starting layout for lau kata kati.
• Starting layout for ludus latrunculorum with dux.
• Starting layout for tâb
• Starting position for Hare & Hounds.
• Starting positions in chaupar.
• Starting positions in Dou Shou Qi.
• Starting positions in madelinette
• Stewart Culin's awithlaknannai board, made by Zuni native Nick Graham.
• Surakarta leaflet
• Surakarta print-and-play front page
• T'shu-p'u leaflet
• T'shu-p'u set up, with the movement path for yellow indicated.
• Tablan leaflet
• Tablan, by Cyningstan
• Tablut (summer)
• Tablut (winter colours) by Cyningstan
• Tablut applet
• Tablut assembled for play (mock-up)
• A tablut game made in 2007
• Tablut leaflet
• Tablut leaflet, 2nd edition
• Tablut print-and-play front page.
• Tablut starting layout
• Tablut with resin pieces
• The Taj Mahal.
• Tawlbwrdd applet
• Tawlbwrdd applet (2)
• Tawlbwrdd layout proposed by Lewis, 1940
• Tawlbwrdd leaflet
• Temple of Heaven in the Forbidden City
• Thaayam leaflet
• Three hnefatafl games
• Three men's morris board.
• Three men's morris print-and-play board
• Three men's morris, from Libro de los Juegos
• Totolospi, from Culin's Games of the North American Indians
• A traditional sittuyin set.
• A traditional-style draughts board, set out for play.
• Two cuirassed warriors (Achilles and Ajax) playing a board game.
• Two defensive positions in shatranj that take twelve moves to set up.
• Two figures playing liubo.
• Two possible starting configurations in reversi.
• Two sides of the gaming board from Gokstad, showing hnefatafl on one side and nine men's morris on the other.
• An unworkabout starting layout for horseshoe
• The various moves of the elephant in chaturanga
• Wari board at the start of play.
• Wari leaflet
• Wari print-and-play, front page.
• Wei qi player.
• A wooden tawlbwrdd game
• Xiang qi game ready to start.
• Xiang Qi leaflet
• Xiang qi print-and-play front sheet.
• Xiang qi set (no backdrop)
• Xiang Qi set close up
• Xiang qi set out for play.
• The Yoté game uses natural pebbles.
• Yoté print-and-play board.
• Yote leaflet
• Yote wooden board game with pebbles
• The zamma board set out for play.
• Zohn ahl, illustrated by Stewart Culin in 1898.

Alphabetical Index of Web Links

• Análisis matemático del juego llamado Pong Hau K'i
• BoardSpace
• A Book of Historic Board Games (hardback)
• A Book of Historic Board Games (paperback)
• BrainKing
• Chaturaji
• Chinese Checkers
• Courier Chess.com
• David Parlett: games etc.
• Dragonheels' Lair
• Gamerz.net
• Hnefatafl: the Game of the Vikings
• The homepage of Renju International Federation
• igGameCenter
• The International Go Federation
• Jocly
• LudoTeka
• The Othello Museum
• Othello News
• The Oware Society
• Senet on the move
• Shogi.net
• World Xiangqi Federation Homepage
• YourTurnMyTurn