The Online Guide to Traditional Games

Traditional Games Links

As we all know, links come and go. I do occasionally check the validity of the links on my website. However, if you discover before I do that a link isn't working, please drop me a line and I'll remove it.

If you would like a link to your page from my website, let me know. I will add the link in the most appropriate place, not necessarily on this page. I'll add links to all non-commercial organisations. Commercial organisations will be added if they contribute some sort of useful knowledge.

Buying

Masters Traditional Games sells Traditional Games

Alvin's Vintage Games, an Antique shop in Marylebone, London, that often has interesting old games

Games Et Al - an website antiques shop that specialises in playing cards, games and whist markers.

General Info

The Games Board. A group of game historians, of which the author is a member.

about.com Guide to Board Games is interesting in it's own right and has page on game histories

Discover Games

Medieval and Renaissance Games is a huge and very justifiably very popular resource by Justin du Coeur. Look out for the page of links to rules for many medieval games.

Multicultural Games Directory

The Museum and Archive of Games in Canada

Jeux, a page in French by a Monsieur Brisse has loads of good links to a multitude of games.

Board Game Studies representing serious study at Leiden University by scholars like Dr. Ulrich Schaedler and Alex de Voogt.  They also publish a journal packed with useful info.

Alfonso X Book of Games is a wonderful collaborative effort to bring the incomparable Alfonso X manuscript to the website in an English translation

The Mind Sports Olympiad is the Olympics of board games and other mind sports.  It's held in London every year and is well worth a visit.

heuristics.org.uk - Games re-enactment through the ages.

jm at tradgames.org.uk

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