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A parlour or parlor game is a group game played indoors, named so as they were often played in a parlour. These games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes in the United Kingdom and in the United States during the Victorian era. The Victorian age is sometimes considered the "Golden Age" of the parlour game. [1]
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The English Civil War is a strategic level wargame simulating the English Civil War, [1] designed by Roger Sandell and Hartley Patterson. [2] The game differs from most wargames of the time in its distribution of units. In this game, each player must allocate troops to the left wing, centre and right wing.
Love Letter is a card game introduced in May 2012 and designed by Seiji Kanai. [1] Its first English-language edition was produced in the United States by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) until 2018, when Love Letter was acquired by Z-Man Games (a subsidiary of Asmodee).
The origin of Black Peter is unclear, although legend has it that it was invented in gaol by the notorious criminal, Black Peter, in 1811. [1] Its rules are recorded as early as 1821 in Das Neue Königliche L'Hombre, [8] some years before those of the English game of Old Maid or Old Bachelor whose earliest rules appeared in 1835, [9] and the French game of Vieux Garçon ("Old Boy"), first ...
This is a list of notable educational video games. There is some overlap between educational games and interactive CD-ROMs and other programs (based on player agency), and between educational games and related genres like simulations and interactive storybooks (based on how much gameplay is devoted to education). This list aims to list games ...
A player shooting a kick shot. The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small pool table with six pockets.
Halma (from Greek: ἅλμα, romanized: hálma, meaning “leap" [1]) is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. His inspiration was the English game Hoppity which was devised in 1854. [2] The gameboard is checkered and divided into 16×16 squares.