Online Guide to Traditional Games

The Online Guide to Traditional Games “provides history, useful links and current information about traditional games from around the world.” The main categories of games covered are board games, table games, pub games, lawn games, and “dice, cards, and tiles,” The author is British, and the games covered are primarily those popular in the UK. For example, there is a citation for cricket, but not for baseball. The site does not concern itself with trademarked games, such as Scrabble or Monopoly.

The home page has a games index, which lists games alphabetically, from Alquerque to Xiang Qi. It also has...