List of all Board Games.

[Sanny]

Can anyone give me a list of all Board games along with one line on how
they are played.

I would like to know all about famous Board Games. And also know how
they are played.

A few Board Games I already know are

1. Chess
2. Checkers
3. Ludo

I also want to know how GO Game is played.

Bye
Sanny

Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html

[Michel Boucher]

Post by Sanny
Can anyone give me a list of all Board games along with one line
on how they are played.

Do you mean games played on wooden surfaces?

I have well over a thousand boardgames (mostly wargames) and it is
impossible to say how each is played. I am far from being the biggest
collector (I heard of someone who has over 4,000 and I think he's still
buying).

Find an interest in a particular type and then browse Boardgamegeek.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/

[Matt Evinger]

you have got to be kidding !
If you really have no clue what you are asking, go to this site, and
check out the 1000s of games logged there (free to join)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/newuser.php

Post by Sanny
Can anyone give me a list of all Board games along with one line on how
they are played.
I would like to know all about famous Board Games. And also know how
they are played.
A few Board Games I already know are
1. Chess
2. Checkers
3. Ludo
I also want to know how GO Game is played.
Bye
Sanny
Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html

[Nick Wedd]

In message <***@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Sanny
<***@hotmail.com> writes

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Post by Sanny
I also want to know how GO Game is played.

http://www.britgo.org/learners/#info

And for some chess variants, see http://www.chessvariants.com/

Nick

[Chris Mattern]

Post by Sanny
Can anyone give me a list of all Board games along with one line on how
they are played.

<boggle>

Sanny, board games are constantly invented, and have been constantly
invented through history. Many are doubtless never known except
by the person who invented them (and maybe a few close friends).
Nobody could begin to tell you how many board games have ever
existed, let alone give you facts about each one. This is like
asking for a list of all books.

Post by Sanny
I would like to know all about famous Board Games. And also know how
they are played.

Define "Famous". A trip to the local library would likely net
you a book or two listing many board games and their rules. A
session with Google would likely be equally productive. Of
course, rules for proprietary board games like Monopoly or
Scrabble can't be posted to public sources; they're the property
of the people who own them.

Post by Sanny
A few Board Games I already know are
1. Chess
2. Checkers
3. Ludo
I also want to know how GO Game is played.

Wikipedia (as you might expect), has a pretty good article on
Go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game), and a
link to an interactive tutorial: http://playgo.to/interactive/.

[Harald Korneliussen]

Post by Chris Mattern
Define "Famous". A trip to the local library would likely net
you a book or two listing many board games and their rules. A
session with Google would likely be equally productive. Of
course, rules for proprietary board games like Monopoly or
Scrabble can't be posted to public sources; they're the property
of the people who own them.

I believe that a description of the rules need to be patented to be
protected, rather than just copyrighted. Unless you copy the rules
literally, you should be OK. Except I actually think that some of those
boardgames are patented...

I think it's interesting, this. If I were to make a game with identical
rules with, say, GIPF, I would be free to sell it, as long as I didn't
call it by that name or copy any of the artwork or text literally. We
see that this is a problem for the marketing based game companies -
there are actually clones of those games. However, artist based game
companies have little trouble with look-alikes. I think that the
reputation economy that the designer games have built effectively gives
them the protection that copyright law doesn't really give games: if
someone made a blatant Catan rip-off they probably wouldn't sell very
many games.