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Wooden Games
Wooden Games. Wood is a versatile material suitable for many games as well as games boxes. There are a wide range of games made from wood making it easy to…
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Teetotums
A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games. It has a polygonal body marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result…
Elastolin
Elastolin is a trademark used by the German company O&M Hausser, founded in 1904, for the toy soldiers and other types of figures it manufactured from composite material and later…
French Games
French games can be very collectible in their own right. French games, just as other countries games, come in all types but the lithography on board games is exceptional. There…
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Bagatelle
Bagatelle is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls past wooden pins into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs. Penalties…
Chess Pieces
Chess pieces can be collectible in their own right. A chess set consists of 32 pieces, 16 on each sides. Normally they are black and white but sometimes they can…
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Race Board Games
Race Board Games. Race games are a large category of board games, in which the object is to be the first to move all one's pieces to the end of…
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Chinese Playing Cards
Chinese Playing Cards: Playing cards may have been invented during the Tang dynasty around the 9th century AD as a result of the usage of woodblock printing technology. The earliest…
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French Suited Playing Cards
French suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of trèfles (clovers or clubs ♣), carreaux (tiles or diamonds ♦), cœurs (hearts ♥), and piques…
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Dissected Puzzles
Dissected puzzles were the forerunners of jigsaws. They were very simply made by placing a picture on a piece of wood and cutting it into shapes. Some pieces might interlock,…