Parlett, David Sidney

Provides rules and instructions for over 250 card games, including bridge, whist, piquet, cribbage, rummy, and others.

A guide to playing cards that provides instructions for over thirty plain-trick, point-trick, matching, rummy, and gambling games.

An analytical survey of board games throughout history, focusing on the mechanisms and concepts of play; grouped in the categories of race games, space games, chase games, displace games, and today's games.