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Games, Pastimes, and Toys Links

Ball Games

  • Boules and Bocce
  • Bowls
  • Croquet
  • Filling the Time in the Elizabethan Era
  • Gameball
  • The Game of Colf
  • Kingibats
  • Marbles
  • Pall-Mall
  • Period Pastimes of the Elizabethan Era: Pall Mall, Shuttlecock, and Tennis
  • Some 17th-Century Games: Bowls and Nine-Pins
  • Tennis

    Board Games

  • Alfonso X Book of Games: A Game Researcher's Resource
  • Alquerque
  • Alquerque
  • The Alquerque Family
  • Alquerques
  • Backgammon
  • Backgammon in the Middle East
  • Backgammon Set from the Mary Rose
  • Byzantine Chess
  • The Chess Family
  • Chess Through the Middle Ages
  • Dublets
  • Fierges
  • Fox and Geese
  • Games in the Elizabethan era
  • Games of the Viking & Anglo-Saxon Age
  • Games of the Renaissance
  • Glückhaus
  • Gluckshaus
  • Go
  • Go History
  • Goose
  • Game of the Goose
  • Gwyddbwyll
  • Gwyddbwyll (Fidchell)
  • Hazard
  • Hazard and Craps
  • A History of Traditional Board Games
  • Hnefatafl - The Strategic Board Game of the Vikings
  • Hnefatafl, The Viking Board Game
  • Hnefatafl: The Viking Game
  • Making Game Boards - The Easy Way
  • Mancala
  • Medieval & Renaissance Games
  • Merels
  • The Game of Merels or Nine Men's Morris
  • Morris Games
  • Nine Men's Morris
  • Norse Games
  • Nyout
  • Nyout (Horses)
  • Pachisi
  • Parchisi
  • Period Games
  • Rules for Medieval Games: Tafl, Valhalla, Nine Man's Morris, Fox and Geese, and Sailor's Solitaire
  • Rhythmomachy Basics
  • Rithmomachia - The Philosopher's Game
  • 16th Century Rhythmomachy
  • Rithmomachy
  • Senet
  • The Game of Senet
  • Shove Groat
  • Tablero de Jesus
  • Tablero de Jesus
  • Tablero De Jesus
  • Tablut
  • The Tafl Family
  • Ticktack
  • Trictrac
  • The Game of Twenty Squares
  • Viking Game (Hnefatafl)
  • Wari
  • What kind of games did the Vikings play?

    Online Board Games

  • Board Games: Morris Games, Hnefetafl, and Go-Muku
  • Nine Men's Morris
  • Tablut

    Card Games

  • Acquiring Period Card Decks
  • All Fours
  • Alouette for two players or four players
  • As Nas
  • Basset
  • Bryncir
  • Elizabethan Card Games
  • Gleek
  • Karnoffel
  • Karnöffelspiel
  • La Bete
  • Landsknecht
  • Laugh and Lie Down
  • Laugh and Lie Down
  • Maw
  • Noddy and Early Cribbage
  • One-and-Thirty and Bone-Ace
  • Picket
  • Piquet
  • Poch
  • Primero
  • Primero
  • Primero
  • Tarok
  • Troccas

    Dice Games

  • Celtic Knucklebones and Dice
  • Hazard

    Tile Games

  • Dominoes

    Children's Games

  • Children's Games and Contests for SCA events
  • "Children's Games", by Pieter Brueghel (1560)
  • Hopscotch
  • Running Games
  • Tag Games

    Other Games and Pastimes

  • Delights of Life in Fifteenth-Century England
  • Games and Contests for SCA events
  • Glima: Viking Wrestling
  • Kubb
  • Pastimes of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age
  • Quoits
  • That's Entertainment 1500-1700

    Toys

  • Toys excavated from a Carmelite friary at Esslingen
  • Toys in the Middle Ages

    Stefan's Florilegium

  • Entertainment Index
  • Toys
  • Medieval fashion and toy dolls
  • Teething toys

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