Frank Carlson Library

These are various puzzles available from the Osborne Public Library.

Mystery story based on the famous Parker Bros. game, including three surprise alternative endings.

These are various puzzles available from the Kensington Community/School library

Mah Jong for Beginners is one of the first books to explain the game to English language readers. It remains a classic, both for its authenticity and clarity, and as a wonderful introduction for anyone who wants to know more about the fast-paced and complex game of Mah Jong. It contains everything you need to know to get started playing this Chinese tile game. Drawing directly on the rules and regulations of the Mah Jong Association of Japan, it offers...

First introduced to the public in the mid 1950s, Scrabble has gone on to be one of the biggest selling board games in history-and is currently gaining legions of new fans in the online world. Perhaps the fascination of SCRABBLE lies in the fact that the game combines just the right amount of luck with just the right amount of skill. Scrabble is a game of words that can be played up to four players or as little as two players where the players earn...

This is the first book to fully capture the story of the exotic and exciting game of Mahjong or "Mah Jongg", offering an intimate look at the history of the game as well as the visual beauty of the tiles. When authors Ann Israel and Gregg Swain began playing Mahjong, they were unaware of the vintage collections that existed not only in the United States but also as far ranging as Africa to New Zealand. Slowly, they started to collect their own sets...

For the Love of Board Games is a book that explores how modern, popular board games were created by interviewing the designers behind the games. Stories in this book come from some of the industry's biggest board game designers: Matt Leacock, Jamey Stegmaier, Bruno Cathala, Richard Garfield, Reiner Knizia, and many others. Every chapter features a different board game designer and discusses not only the inspiration behind the game(s) they designed...

"A nonfiction picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world's most famous games"-- With over one billion players across 111 countries, Monopoly is recognized today as one of the world's most famous games. Have you ever wondered how it was invented? In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense of justice. Waves of urban migration drew Lizzie's attention to rising financial inequality. One day she had...

This book contains 300 puzzles from the French Defence-it is not a theoretical manual. The variations covered are the Winawer, Classical, Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Advance and Exchange. I have designed this book to be a useful tactics trainer but also to aid with opening preparation-the idea is that you solve the tactics in your expected opening before a game.

This book discusses the Triple Set/Double Platform Game played on Model III, the Longitudinal Star Gate 14 Model. The triple set game involves three chess sets whose initial position set-up at the start of the game is GROUND-TO-GROUND (G-G) at Base(0), GROUND-TO-GROUND (G-G) also at Base(0) and AIR-TO-AIR (A-A) at Base(1). The Double Platform game involves two chess game boards or two StarFish Models. One of the game boards is the Bottom Platform...