Bibliography of Traditional Board Games
Damian Walker
Introduction
The object of creating this document was to
provide an easy source of reference for my fu-
ture projects, allowing me to find information
about various traditional board games in the
books, papers and periodicals I have access
to. The project began once I had finished
The Traditional Board Game Series of leaflets,
published on my web site. Therefore those
leaflets will not necessarily benefit from infor-
mation in many of the sources below.
Given the amount of effort this document
has taken me, and would take someone else to
replicate, I have tidied up the presentation a
little, included this introduction and an expla-
nation of the “families” of board games I have
used for classification.
My sources are all in English and include a
number of basic types: books on board games,
other books, periodicals of papers, and indi-
vidual papers published by academic or com-
mercial institutions. I have avoided miscel-
laneous pages on the world wide web as the
easiest way to filter out those flights of fancy
which owe more to the imagination than to
actual research. In doing so I have unfortu-
nately excluded some good research published
on-line, and included some bad research pub-
lished on paper. But I think, on balance, that
I am probably pointing myself and others gen-
erally in the right direction.
In one revision I decided to include “pass-
ing mentions” of the games in the references,
where previously I included only works which
have substantial information. In this I have
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been very selective, and will include only those
passing mentions of a game which give us use-
ful information not available in the substan-
tial accounts (for example, if they are proof of
an earlier or later existence of a game than is
mentioned elsewhere).
The use of this document by myself and
others has been complicated by the facts that
a name may have attached itself to more than
one game, and that a game might be known
by more than one name. I have dealt with
this by including every name known to my
sources, using one name as a “primary name”
(for instance, nine mens morris), listing its
other names there under the AKA heading,
and having entries for each synonym refer the
reader to the main entry. Extra care must be
taken when cross-referencing: for instance, on
looking up the name akidada the reader is ex-
pected to know what type of game he or she
is researching, in order to look ahead to the
appropriate entry.
This is, and always will be, a work in
progress. It is likely to be expanded with
each new book that becomes available to me.
It is therefore possible that I will upload a
revised edition every now and then. If you
have suggestions, information or other com-
ments, then please do not hesitate to send
them to me by e-mail. Currently my address
is info@cyningstan.com.
Damian Walker
Hull, November 2014
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 The Game Families
In order to more easily identify the games, and
to help disentangle from one another different
games which have the same name, they have
been categorised into families. Membership of
a family does not necessarily imply any rela-
tionship to the other games in the family, apart
from resemblance. The names are arbitrary
but, in all but a few cases, have been quite
widely used.
The categories are themselves loosely organ-
ised into four groups: race games, where play-
ers attempt to be the first to move their pieces
to a certain point; war games, where players
of equal strength try to be the first to over-
come their opponents or opponents pieces; hunt
games, where a player with a large force of weak
pieces attempts to corner a player with a small
force of strong pieces; and construction games,
where players attempt to form a certain config-
uration with their pieces before the opponent
does the same.
alquerque: war games played on a net-
worked grid, where pieces are placed on points
that are joined together by lines. The boards
for these games come in a variety of shapes.
Pieces generally move from one point to the
next along a marked line, and a piece is cap-
tured by leaping over it to the empty point be-
yond.
ashtapada: race games played on a square
board, usually by four players. Pieces race
around the board on a spiral path, each players
path being rotated so as to start at his own side
of the board. Because the paths are therefore
different, they cannot be marked on the board
but must be remembered by the players.
chess: war games in which each player has
an array of major pieces of different types. In
front of these pieces is a row of foot soldiers
of limited power. The object for each player is
usually to trap a designated enemy piece (usu-
ally a king), rather than mere material capture.
dara: war games played on a square grid.
The game starts with the board empty. In an
initial phase, players place pieces from their
hand onto the board, and in a second phase
pieces are moved from one space to an adjacent
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space. Forming a row of three allows capture
of an enemy piece, and the game is won by re-
ducing the enemy to two pieces.
draughts: war games played on a square
grid. The forces start massed at each end of the
board, and pieces are initially restricted from
moving backwards, in order to force the armies
early into contact. Movement is to an adjacent
square, with pieces reaching the opposite end of
the board being promoted and allowed to move
in all directions. A piece captures an enemy by
jumping over it onto the empty square beyond,
and the aim of the game is to capture all enemy
pieces.
fox & geese: hunt games played on a cross
shaped board formed by points with lines con-
necting them. A small number of prey pieces
face a large number of hunters. All pieces move
from one point to the next along a marked line,
sometimes with movement restrictions for the
hunters. The prey may capture a hunter by
jumping over it onto the empty space beyond.
The prey wins by capturing all the hunters,
while the hunters win by hemming in the prey
so that it cannot move.
go: games of placement, where the sur-
rounding enemy pieces and territory gains cap-
tures or scores points.
go moku: a construction game played on
the points of a square grid. Players place their
pieces in turn, one at a time, onto an initially
empty board. The first to form a row of five
pieces of his own colour wins the game.
halma: race games played without luck.
Each player starts with his pieces at his own
end of the board, and attempts to be the first to
move them to the opposite side. Pieces usually
move to an adjacent square, but a piece may
move more quickly by instead jumping over a
piece of any colour to the adjacent space be-
yond, and jumping again and again if in a po-
sition to do so. Thus success in these games re-
lies on skill in arranging the pieces to aid each
other, instead of on the luck of dice.
hnefatafl: hybrid hunt/war games in which
a small number of forces attempts to aid a king
piece in his escape from a large force twice their
number. Pieces move orthogonally and an en-
emy piece is captured by surrounding it on two
opposite sides by friendly pieces. The small
force wins by moving the king to the periph-
ery of the board, while the larger force wins by
capturing the king.
horseshoe: war games on a grid of points
joined by lines. Pieces move from one point
to the next along a marked line, without pow-
ers of capture. The winner is the player who
blocks his opponent so that he cannot move.
So named because some boards have a gap in
one side, thus being shaped like a horseshoe.
lasca: war games on chequered boards
much resembling the draughts family. Pieces
are all placed on squares of one colour, moving
diagonally. A piece is captured by leaping over
it onto the square beyond, but the captured
piece is dragged along with its conqueror and
placed underneath it at the end of the move.
The game is won by the player who has cap-
tured all the enemy pieces.
latrunculi: war games played on a grid of
squares. Pieces move orthogonally, and an en-
emy is captured by surrounding it on two op-
posite sides. The player who has captured all
his opponents pieces wins the game.
leopard game: hunt games played on a
triangular grid. Pieces are placed on points
joined by lines, and move from one point to
an adjacent point along a marked line. Gener-
ally the games start with the prey already on
the board, but the hunters are placed, one at
a time, while the prey are making their first
moves around the board. Once the hunters are
all placed, they may start to make their moves.
The prey are powerful pieces who may capture
a hunter by leaping over him onto the vacant
square beyond. The prey wins by capturing all
the hunters, while the hunters have to trap the
prey. The grid may have extensions to its basic
triangular shape.
mancala: war games played on boards
formed of two, three or four rows of large holes,
each hole capable of holding a large number
of pieces. Pieces are moved by lifting them
from one hole and sowing them, dropping them
one each into subsequent holes along a prede-
termined path. Captures are made by various
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arrangements of the pieces which vary from one
mancala game to another. The game is usually
won by the player who has captured the most
pieces when no more moves can be made.
mehen: race games played on a spiral-
shaped board.
merels: hybrid war/construction games
played on a grid of points joined by lines. In
an initial phase, pieces are placed by the play-
ers alternately, onto empty points on the board.
When all are placed, pieces can move from one
point to another on a marked line. Forming a
row of three pieces allows the capture of an en-
emy pieces, and the first player to reduce his
enemy to two pieces wins the game.
pachisi: race games played on a cross-
shaped grid of squares. Four players take part,
often in partnerships where players sitting op-
posite each other team up. Each arm of the
cross usually has a width of three squares.
Pieces race around the outer rows of squares
around the periphery of the cross, proceeding
up the inner rows of squares to the centre when
they have made their circuit. The first player
or partnership to get his pieces to the central
square wins the game.
perugian game: hunt games played on a
chess board. One or two powerful prey pieces
start at one end of the board, while a larger
number of weak hunter pieces starts at the
other. Pieces move diagonally to an adjacent
square, the hunters being restricted to forward
movement. In some games, the prey may cap-
ture a hunter by leaping over it onto the empty
square beyond, in which the prey wins by cap-
turing all the hunters. In other games there is
no capture, but the prey wins by reaching the
opposite end of the board. The hunters win by
trapping the prey so that it cannot move.
promotion game: race games where the
object is the first to achieve a particular rank.
The board is rectangular and arranged into a
pattern of squares, which may not necessarily
be of the same size. Squares have different ef-
fects upon the pieces that land on them, includ-
ing promotion and demotion.
senet: race games played on an elongated
grid of squares, usually in three rows. The
pieces move along the squares in a predeter-
mined path, and a player wins by being the first cardinal points of the compass form the start
to get all his pieces to the end of the course. and end points, and obstacles such as creeks.
zohn ahl: race games played on a circle Performance in these games is generally based
of playing spaces, usually 40 in number. The completely on luck, with no skill element.

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(unnamed), family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
(unnamed), family: circular
hunt. Sources: Murray 1952,
112.
(unnamed), family: (race).
Sources: Murray 1952, 141.
(unnamed), family: promo-
tion game. Sources: Murray
1952, 146 (6.6.7).
(unnamed), family: (race).
Sources: Murray 1952, 148
(6.7.5).
(unnamed), family: zohn
ahl. Sources: Culin 1907,
121-122. Murray 1952, 153
(6.7.27).
(unnamed), family: zohn
ahl. Sources: Murray 1952,
155 (6.7.32).
(unnamed), family: zohn
ahl. Sources: Murray 1952,
156.
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
174 [7.4.2].
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
184-185 [7.5.30].
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
190-191.
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
197.
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
199 [7.6.18].
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
199-200, 7.6.19.
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
206.
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
The Games
217 [8.3.6].
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
224 [8.5.5].
(unnamed), family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
224 [8.5.9].
(unnamed), family: chess.
Sources: Murray 1913, 347
[III (14)]
(unnamed), family: chess.
Sources: Murray 1913, 347
[III (15)]
(unnamed), family: merels.
Sources: Culin 1907, 793,
794f.
a k’aak’il, family: puluc.
Sources: Verbeeck 1998, 90.
a-wi-thlak-na-kwe. See aw-
ithlaknakwe.
abalala’e, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1988, 59-60.
abanga, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 602.
acedrex de las diez casas,
family: chess. Sources: Mur-
ray 1913, 348.
acey ducey, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 129.
Parlett 1999, 81-82.
achchana gundlu, family:
mancala. See chenne mane
ata.
achi, family: merels. Sources:
Bell 1979 [4], 2:55-56. Bell
1979 [5], 145. Bell 1980,
49. Bell 1988, 45. Bell &
Cornelius 1988, 7. Loader
& Loader 1993, 31-33.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
37-40. Sheppard & Wilkin-
son 2000, 7. Zaslavsky 2003,
14-15. a.k.a. luk tsut k’i,
tic-tac-toe.
achi, family: merels. See six
men’s morris.
adangang, family: tables.
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Sources: Murray 1952, 116.
a.k.a. padagang.
adi, adji, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 184.
a.k.a. aji.
adi, family: mancala. See
obridjie.
adji, adji-pre, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
203-204. a.k.a. lontu-holo
adjiboto, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 203.
adjito, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 181.
adzua, family: mancala. See
obridjie.
aghadaghada, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
180.
aghi, family: mancala. See
wari.
agon. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
2:61-63. Bell 1979 [5], 40-
41. Botermans 2008, 277-
286. Cassell 1896, 382-
383. Parlett 1999, 146-147.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
129-136. Walker 2014, 51-64.
a.k.a. queen’s guard [the],
queen’s guards
agsinnoninka, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
176. a.k.a. chunkajon.
ahl game [the], family: zohn
ahl. See zohn ahl.
aiyawatstani, family: al-
querque. Sources: Culin
1907, 792. Murray 1952,
67. a.k.a. awithlaknanai, pon
chochotl
aj sakalil, family: puluc.
Sources: Verbeeck 1998, 90.
aj sayil, family: puluc. See
puluc.
aj sina’anil, family: puluc.
Sources: Verbeeck 1998, 90.
aj t’iwil, family: puluc.
Sources: Verbeeck 1998 90.
aji, family: mancala. See adi.
akidada, family: merels.
Sources: Murray 1952, 48.
akidada, family: merels. See
nine holes.
akidada, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
akidada, family: merels. See
six men’s morris.
akileyisit, family: mancala.
See mweso.
ako okwe, akwa nsa, family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 192. a.k.a. ezu ahia
ako okwa, okwe
al-falakiya. See kawakib.
al-mamduda, family: chess.
See oblong chess.
al-mustatila, family: chess.
See oblong chess.
Al-Masudi’s game (un-
named), family: chess.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 313.
alea, family: tables. See tab-
ula.
alea, family: tables. Sources:
Parlett 1999, 72.
alea evangelii, family: hne-
fatafl. See Saxon Hnefatafl.
Alfonso’s game (un-
named), family: chess.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 313.
alkarhat, family: dara.
Sources: Murray 1952, 49.
Parlett 1999, 124.
alquerque, alquerque de
doze, family: alquerque.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:47-
48. Bell 1979 [5], 146-
147. Bell 1980, 33-34. Bell
1988, 35. Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 41. Botermans
et al 1989, 114. Boter-
mans 2008, 199-210. Fiske
1905, 98. Grunfeld 1975,
38-40. Murray 1952, 65-67.
Parlett 1999, 121-123, 243-
247. Pritchard 2007, 10.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
61-66. Schädler 2000, 112.
Sheppard & Wilkinson 2000,
35. van der Stoep 2002,
111-113. a.k.a. bara-guti,
damma, marella, marelle,
marelli, marro, mereles [jeu
de], riga, zamma
alquerque de nueve, family:
merels. See nine men’s mor-
ris.
alquerque de tres, family:
merels. See three men’s mor-
ris.
ane-nayi ata, family: leop-
ard game. Sources: Vasan-
tha 2003, 28.
Anglo-American draughts,
family: draughts. See
draughts.
Annamese chess, family:
chess. See Cambodian chess.
ansah pyit-thi, family:
pachisi. See pasit.
apit-sodok, family: latrun-
culi. See mak-yek.
Arabian bao, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
207-208. a.k.a. bao kiarabu,
kiarabu
arb‘ata ‘ashara, family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 206.
aringari, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 180-
181.
arneb [el], family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 180.
a.k.a. hare [the]
asalto, family: fox & geese.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
2:46-47. Bell 1979 [5], 52-
54. Bell 1988, 25, 92-
93. Botermans 2008, 235-
250. Grunfeld 1975, 94-95.
Love 1979, 28-29. Murray
1952, 104-105. Parlett 1999,
186, 190-192. Provenzo &
9
Provenzo 1990, 174-178.
Walker 2014, 189-206. a.k.a.
assaut, belagerungs-spiel,
belägringsspel, beleiringsspil,
belejringspel, dogs & bears,
fästningsspel, festungsspiel,
officers & men, officers &
sepoys, Transvaal.
ashta-kashte, family: ash-
tapada. Sources: Falkener
1892, 265-266. Murray 1913,
33-37. Murray 1952, 131.
Parlett 1999, 56.
ashtapada, family: ashta-
pada. Sources: Botermans et
al 1989, 33. Murray 1952, 35,
129-130.
asi keliya, family: pachisi.
Sources: Botermans et al
1989, 172-173. Murray 1952,
137-138. Parker 1909, 614-
617. a.k.a. sonaru
assaut, family: fox & geese.
See asalto.
at-tamma, family: chess. See
decimal chess.
at-tawila, family: chess. See
oblong chess.
ath-thalatha, family: merels.
See three men’s morris.
athara guti, athara gutiala
teoria, family: alquerque.
See mogol putt’han.
ati, family: merels. See six
men’s morris.
atlanbaj, family: draughts.
See Turkish draughts.
atranj, family: chess.
Sources: Murray 1913, 347.
a.k.a. qatranj.
aucai, aukay. Sources: De-
paulis 1998, 29-31. a.k.a.
awkai.
aw-li on-nam ot-tjin, fam-
ily: mancala. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 175. a.k.a. ot-jin
awadu, family: tablan. See
awangdu.
awangdu, family: tablan.
 Sources: Murray 1952, 97.
a.k.a. awadu.
aware, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 182.
a.k.a. dagboprou, oura, wolo,
wora.
awari, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:121-
123. Murray 1952, 202-203.
awèlé, family: mancala. See
wari.
awithlaknakwe. Sources:
Culin 1896, 877-879. Culin
1907, 799-800. Murray 1952,
64. Parlett 1999, 239-240.
awithlaknan mosona, aw-
ithlaknannai, family: al-
querque. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:49-50. Bell 1979 [5], 38-
39. Botermans et al 1989,
116-117. Culin 1907, 801.
Grunfeld 1975, 41. Mur-
ray 1952, 71. Parlett 1999,
245, 247. Pritchard 2007, 11.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
74-79. a.k.a. fighting ser-
pents, kolowis awithlaknan-
nai.
awithlaknanai, family: al-
querque. See aiyawatstani.
awithlaknannai, family:
merels. See nine men’s mor-
ris.
awkai. See aukay.
ayo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 182.
ayo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 185.
ayo, ayoayo, family: man-
cala. See wari.
ayoayo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 182-
183. Parlett 1999, 212. a.k.a.
shayo.
azigo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 188-
189.
azigo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 189.
að elta stelpur, family: ta-
bles. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
1:37-38. Bell 1979 [5], 86-87.
Bell 1980, 11-12. Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 57-58. Murray
1952, 121. Parlett 1999, 80-
81. a.k.a. ad elta stelpur,
chasing the girls, chase the
girls.
ba-awa, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:72-
73.
Babylonian draughts, fam-
ily: draughts. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 81.
backgammon, family: ta-
bles. Sources: Anon 1989,
202-216. Bell 1979 [4], 1:42-
46. Bell 1979 [5], 88-91. Bell
1980, 10-11. Bell 1988, 18-
19. Botermans et al 1989,
166-171. Botermans 2008,
7-18. Cassell 1896, 383-
386. Falkener 1892, 252-253.
Fiske 1905, 175. Grunfeld
1975, 150-155. Murray 1952,
122. Parlett 1999, 59-60, 83,
84-86. Pritchard 1982, 15-
25. Pritchard 2007, 22-27.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
219-231. Strutt 1903, 248.
a.k.a. gammon, tablas reales,
tavole reale.
bagh bandi, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 110.
bagh chal, family: tiger
game. Sources: Lim & Niev-
ergelt 2004, 131-133. Murray
1952, 112. Parlett 1999, 194.
a.k.a. bhagchakar, bhagchal,
chahrachel.
bagh guti, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 110. Parlett 1999, 194.
bagh-bukri, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
bahendagabo, family: man-
10
cala. See mweiso.
bajangkaq, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 175.
a.k.a. kaloleh.
bakkis, family: pachisi. See
pachisi.
Baltic four-hand chess,
family: chess. Sources: Par-
lett 1999, 328.
bangale, family: alquerque.
See mogol putt’han.
banya, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 224.
bao, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 603.
Murray 1952, 201.
bao, family: mancala. See bao
kiswahili.
bao kiarabu, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
208. Bell & Cornelius 1988,
31-32. a.k.a. kiarabu.
bao kiarabu, family: man-
cala. See Arabian bao.
bao kiswahili, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
220-223. de Voogt 1999, 114.
a.k.a. bao, bau, katra be.
baqura, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 166.
bara-guti pait pait, family:
merels. See nine men’s mor-
ris.
baraguti, family: alquerque.
See alquerque.
barail, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 122.
Parlett 1999, 79. a.k.a. des-
baraill, sbaraglio.
barail, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 122.
a.k.a. sharaione.
barail, family: tables. See
baralie.
baralie, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 123.
Parlett 1999, 79. Strutt
1903, 249. a.k.a. barail,
sbaraglino
baré, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1980, 67-68.
Bell 1988, 60-61.
bargese, family: pachisi.
Sources: Finkel 2002, 67.
barjis, family: pachisi.
Sources: Murray 1952, 136.
a.k.a. parchis.
barjiss, family: pachisi.
Sources: Finkel 2002, 66-67.
bashne, bashnya, family:
lasca. Sources: Botermans
2008, 569-584. Parlett 1999,
270.
bathelas, family: tables. See
bethelas.
bau, family: mancala. See bao
kiswahili.
baz, family: alquerque. See
mogol putt’han.
bazi qamdish, family:
tablan. See tâb.
beatta, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 168.
belagerungsspiel, family:
fox & geese. See asalto.
belägringsspel, family: fox
& geese. See asalto.
beleiringsspil, family: fox &
geese. See asalto.
belejringspel, family: fox &
geese. See asalto.
Belgian checkers, family:
draughts. See losing game
[the].
bethelas, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 129.
a.k.a. bathelas.
bhagchakar, family: tiger
game. See bagh chal.
bhagchal, family: tiger game.
See bagh chal.
bidaria, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
bidaria, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
bizingo. Sources: Bell 1979
[5], 104-105.
blind chess, family: chess.
See kriegspiel.
bonzo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 201.
boolik, family: puluc. See pu-
luc.
bosh, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 196.
bottle game [the]. See coan
ki.
bottoms up!. See Connect 4.
boughe-shodra, family:
tiger game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
bowl [game of the]. See han.
brädspel, family: tables.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 78-79.
brandub, brandubh, family:
hnefatafl. Sources: Murray
1952, 35. Parlett 1999, 200.
Walker 2013, 35-45.
b’rsis, family: pachisi. See
pachisi.
buanfach. Sources: Murray
1952, 35.
bub, family: latrunculi. See
seega.
Buddhist promotion game,
family: promotion game. See
tjyong-kyeng-to.
buf, family: tables. See puff.
buf regal, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 129.
buff de baldriac, family: ta-
bles. Sources: Murray 1952,
128. Parlett 1999, 82.
buffa, buffa cortese, family:
tables. See puff.
bul, family: puluc. See puluc.
Burmese chess, family:
chess. See sittuyin.
Byzantine chess, family:
chess. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:61-62. Forbes 1860,
137. Murray 1913, 342-343.
Parlett 1999, 317-320. a.k.a.
circular chess, shatranji mu-
dauwira.
11
cab e equinal, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 123.
Parlett 1999, 79.
camarzo, family: tables. See
canis martius.
Cambodian chess, family:
chess. Sources: Murray
1913, 117-118. Parlett 1999,
295. a.k.a. Annamese chess.
Canadian draughts, family:
draughts. Sources: Murray
1952, 81. a.k.a. dames cana-
dien [le jeu de]
cane arrows, family: zohn
ahl. See sho’liwe.
canis martius, family: ta-
bles. Sources: Murray 1952,
129. a.k.a. camarzo.
captain’s mistress [the].
See Connect 4.
carabawg, family: merels.
See three men’s morris.
carré chinois, family: merels.
See three men’s morris.
caseheapana, family: zohn
ahl. Sources: Culin 1907,
195. Murray 1952, 153.
cashlan gherra, family:
merels. See three men’s mor-
ris.
castro, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
castro, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
catch-dolt, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 120-
121. Parlett 1999, 76. Strutt
1903, 248. a.k.a. ketch-dolt.
catch the hare, family: tiger
game. See cercar la liebre.
ccullu chuncana. See chun-
cani.
cennchaem. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 35.
cercar la liebre, family: tiger
game. Sources: Botermans
et al 1989, 146-147. Culin
1907, 794, 798f. Murray
1952, 99. Parlett 1999, 187.
 a.k.a. catch the hare, coyote
& chickens, k’uang, pon cho-
chotl.
chahrachel, family: tiger
games. See bagh chal.
changgi, family: chess.
Sources: Culin 1895b, 82-90.
Culin 1896, 866-867. Mur-
ray 1913, 134-137. Parlett
1999, 290-291. a.k.a. Korean
chess, tjyang keui.
chanka, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 600.
chaquete, family: tables. See
jacquet.
char pur, family: merels. See
nine holes.
chase the girls, chasing the
girls, family: tables. See að
elta stelpur.
chato, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 174.
a.k.a. chuka, jungka.
chator, family: chess. See
main chator.
chatrang, family: chess.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 296.
a.k.a. Iranian chess, Persian
chess.
chaturaji, family: chess.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:51-
57. Bell 1980, 21-24. Bell
1988, 27-29. Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 39-41. Culin
1896, 857-858. Falkener
1892, 120-142. Forbes 1860,
11-45. Murray 1913, 68-77.
Parlett 1999, 325-326. a.k.a.
chaturanga, shaturanga.
chaturanga, family: chess.
Sources: Murray 1913, 51-
67. Parlett 1999, 286-288.
chaturanga, family: chess.
See chaturaji.
chatush-pada, family:
pachisi. See chaupur.
chaupad, family: pachisi. See
chausar.
chaupar, family: pachisi. See
chausar.
chaupur, family: pachisi.
Sources: Murray 1952, 133-
134. a.k.a. chatush-pada.
chauput, family: pachisi.
Sources: Falkener 1892, 263-
264. Murray 1952, 135.
chausar, family: pachisi.
Sources: Culin 1896, 855-
856. Falkener 1892, 264.
Grunfeld 1975, 29-31. Mur-
ray 1952, 134. Parlett 1999,
46-47. Shurreef & Herklots
1832, appx. lii. a.k.a. chau-
pad, chaupar, pásá.
checkers, family: draughts.
See draughts.
chela, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 201.
chenne-mane ata, family:
mancala. Sources: Vasantha
2003, 31. a.k.a. achchana
gundlu, omana guntalu, va-
mana guntalu.
cherrapunji, family: man-
cala. See mawkarkatiya.
chess, family: chess. Sources:
Anon 1989, 166-196. Bell
1979 [5], 18-21. Bell 1988,
29-31. Botermans et al 1989,
126-131. Cassell 1896, 355-
372. Culin 1896, 860-861,
862-863. Grunfeld 1975, 63-
69. Parlett 1999, 276-286,
299-307. Pritchard 1982, 38-
48. Pritchard 2007, 42-51.
Strutt 1903, 250-253. a.k.a.
European chess.
chess, family: chess. See sha-
tranj.
chiana wa bwalo, family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 224.
chiana wa kunja, family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 224.
chikkiri, family: merels. See
nine holes.
12
Chinamen’s game [the],
family: pachisi. See Chine-
senspiel.
Chinese checkers, family:
halma. Sources: Bell 1979
[5], 154-155. Bell 1988, 48-
49. Botermans 2008, 475-
484. Grunfeld 1975, 88-89.
Parlett 1999, 135-136. 100-
108. Pritchard 2007, 167.
a.k.a. star halma, stern-
halma, tiau-qi.
Chinese chess, family: chess.
See xiangqi.
Chinese rebel game, family:
tiger game. See twenty-six
rebels, yeung luk sz’kon tse-
ung kwan.
Chinesenspiel, family:
pachisi. Sources: Grunfeld
1975, 32-33. Parlett 1999,
49-50. a.k.a. Chinamen’s
game [the].
chingskoot, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Culin 1906, 146,
150-151. Murray 1952, 155-
156. a.k.a. kinsgoot, kints
kut.
chisolo, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:123-
124. Murray 1952, 210
[8.2.7]. a.k.a. natatu.
chisolo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 210
[8.2.8].
chisolo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 213.
chisolo, family: mancala. See
nambidi.
chit-thareen, family: chess.
See sittuyin.
Chivalry, family: halma.
Sources: Love 1979, 25.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
137-146.
choko, family: yoté. Sources:
Murray 1952, 83. Parker
1909, 604. Parlett 1999, 246-
247. a.k.a. helga.
chongak, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 600.
chonka, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 175.
chonka, family: mancala. See
chonku.
choo-hong-ki, family: chess.
See xiangqi.
chonku, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 173.
Parker 1909, 599-600. a.k.a.
chonka, pallankuli
choro, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 216-
217. a.k.a. coro.
choro, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 219-
220.
chu-shogi, family: chess.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 293,
294.
chuba, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 605-
607. Murray 1952, 212.
Whitehill 1999, 116.
chuk sam, family: merels.
See sam k’i.
chuka, family: mancala. See
chato.
chuke. See chuki.
chuki. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
2:52-53. Culin 1896, 872-
873. Murray 1952, 94. a.k.a.
chuke, tjoeki, xuki.
chuncajon, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 600-
601. Murray 1952, 176.
chuncani, chuncara,
chuncayuna, chungani.
Sources: Depaulis 1998, 31.
a.k.a. ccullu chuncana.
chunkajon, family: mancala.
See agsinnoninka.
chwe pyit-thi, family:
pachisi. See pasit.
circular chess, family: chess.
See Byzantine chess.
citadel chess, family: chess.
Sources: Forbes 1860, 137.
Murray 1913, 343-344. a.k.a.
shatranj al-husun
coan ki. Sources: Botermans
et al 1989, 164. Botermans
2008, 677-688. Bell 1979 [4],
2:12-14. Culin 1889, 14-15.
Culin 1895a, 498-499. Mur-
ray 1952, 144. a.k.a. bottle
game [the], tsun k’i.
cocimbert, family: draughts.
See losing draughts.
coiled snake, family: mehen.
See mehen.
comican, family: chess.
Sources: Murray 1952, 97.
comican, comina, family:
tiger game. See komina.
complete chess, family:
chess. Sources: Forbes 1860,
155-161.
Conchobair. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 35.
congklak, conglak, family:
mancala. Sources: Bell 1988,
58. Bell & Cornelius 1988,
22-25.
Connect 4. Sources: Bell
1988, 47. Parlett 1999, 113-
114. Pritchard 2007, 169.
Sheppard & Wilkinson 2000,
11. a.k.a. bottoms up!,
captain’s mistress [the], four
balls.
conspirators [the]. Sources:
Bell 1979 [5], 128-129. Bell
1980, 53-55. Sheppard &
Wilkinson 2000, 33. a.k.a.
spies.
continental draughts, fam-
ily: draughts. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:75. Bell 1980,
36-37. Bell 1988, 39. Bell
1988, 80-81. Botermans et al
1989, 134. Botermans 2008,
379-392. Falkener 1892, 236.
Murray 1952, 80-81 Parlett
1999, 261. Pritchard 2007,
32-33. Provenzo & Provenzo
1990, 203-207. Strutt 1903,
13
255. a.k.a. dam blas, dames
[le jeu de], Polish checkers,
Polish draughts.
contrabuf, family: tables.
See gegenpuff.
conträre puff, family: tables.
See gegenpuff.
coro, family: mancala. See
choro.
courier chess, family: chess.
See courier game [the].
courier game [the], family:
chess. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
1:62-65. Murray 1913, 483-
485. Parlett 1999, 314-315.
a.k.a. courier chess.
cows & leopards, family:
tiger game. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:81. Bell 1979 [5],
62-63. Bell 1988, 26. Bell
1988, 91. Bell & Cornelius
1988, 47. Parlett 1999,195.
Sheppard & Wilkinson 2000,
38. a.k.a. leopards & cows.
coyote, family: tiger game.
Sources: Culin 1896, 876.
Murray 1952, 99. Parlett
1999, 187. a.k.a. coyote &
chickens.
coyote & chickens, family:
tiger game. See cercar la
liebre.
coyote & chickens, family:
tiger game. See coyote.
crazy game [the], family:
mancala. See li‘b majnuni.
cumi, cumisiña, family: tiger
game. See komina.
cuwee, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Murray 1952, 151.
da ma. Sources: Cribb 2007,
116-124.
dablot prejjesne, family: al-
querque. Sources: Bell 1979
[5], 152-153. Bell 1980,
45. Botermans 2008, 655-
666. Parlett 1999, 247-248.
dagboprou, family: mancala.
See aware.
dagh, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 183.
dagh, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 185.
dai-shogi, family: chess.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 293,
294.
dajam, family: pachisi.
Sources: Murray 1952, 137.
dakon, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 175.
dakon, family: mancala.
Sources: Donkers 2000, 79-
88.
dala, family: dara. Sources:
Murray 1952, 49. Parlett
1999, 124. a.k.a. dali.
daldøs, daldøsa, family:
tablan. Sources: Depaulis
2001, 77-82. Michaelsen
2001, 19-32. Næsheim 2001,
9-14. stergard & Gaston
2001, 15-18.
dali, family: dara. See dala.
dalwbrdd, family: hnefatafl.
See tawlbwrdd.
dam, family: draughts.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 262.
a.k.a. dama, damki, warcaby.
dam, family: draughts.
Sources: Murray 1952, 81.
dam, family: alquerque. See
mogol putt’han.
dam, family: draughts.
Parker 1909, 584-585.
dam blas, family: draughts.
See continental draughts.
dam-daman, family: al-
querque. See ratti-chitti-
bakri.
dam hariman, family: tiger
game. See mogol putt’han.
dam pusri, family: al-
querque. Sources: Murray
1952, 67. a.k.a. sipchi kat.
dama, family: draughts. See
dam.
dama, family: draughts. See
Italian draughts.
dama, family: draughts. See
shashki.
dama, family: draughts. See
Turkish draughts.
damas, family: draughts. See
Spanish draughts.
dame, family: draughts. See
shashki.
dame à la babilonienne,
family: draughts. See
Frisian draughts.
dames [le jeu de], family:
draughts. See continental
draughts.
dames avalées, family: ta-
bles. See rabattuées.
dames canadien [le jeu de],
family: draughts. See Cana-
dian draughts.
dames rabattuées, family:
tables. See rabattuées.
damki, family: draughts. See
dam.
damki, family: draughts. See
shashki.
damma, family: alquerque.
See alquerque.
dammen-spiel, family:
draughts. See German
draughts.
dams, family: draughts. See
draughts.
dandaman, family: al-
querque. See ratti-chitti-
bakri.
dandimannstafl, danu-
mannstafl, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 129.
danm-la-tete, family: al-
querque. de Voogt 2009, 34-
35.
dara, family: dara. Sources:
Bell 1979 [4], 1:95-96. Bell
1988, 46. Bell & Cornelius
1988, 10. Botermans 2008,
67. Murray 1952, 48-49.
Parlett 1999, 123. Provenzo
& Provenzo 1990, 158-159.
a.k.a. shiva.
14
dara-dara, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 176.
daramutu, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 173.
Parker 1909, 599. a.k.a.
ellaewala-kanda.
darra, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 187
[7.5.42].
darra, family: mancala. See
derra.
dasapada, family: ashtapada.
Sources: Murray 1952, 35.
dash-guti, family: alquerque.
Sources: Murray 1952, 70.
a.k.a. kowwu dunki.
decimal chess, family: chess.
Sources: Murray 1913, 341-
342, 346-347. a.k.a. at-
tamma
deleb, family: tablan.
Sources: Murray 1952, 96.
demala diviyan keliya, fam-
ily: leopard game. See
rafaya.
derra, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 187.
a.k.a. darra.
desbaraill, family: tables.
See barail.
dhola, family: pachisi.
Sources: Culin 1896, 856.
Murray 1952, 136.
diagonal draughts, family:
draughts. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:73. Bell 1979 [5], 28.
Bell 1988, 39. Botermans
2008, 162. Murray 1952, 82.
Parlett 1999, 271. Provenzo
& Provenzo 1990, 202-203.
diagrammismos. See gram-
mai.
Diana, family: chess.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 317.
dickedack, family: tables.
See petit trictrac.
dignitaries [game of ], fam-
ily: promotion game. See
tjyong-kyeng-to.
dili, family: dara. Sources:
Murray 1952, 49. Parlett
1999, 124. a.k.a. dra kyoti
wali.
diviyalliya, family: tiger
game. See diviyan keliya.
diviyan keliya, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 110. Parker 1909,
581-583. a.k.a. diviyalliya,
kotiyo saha harak, leopards &
cattle, leopards’ game, leop-
ards’ square.
do-chu-sugoroku, family:
ashtapada. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 132.
do-guti, family: horseshoe.
See pong hau k’i.
doblet, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 120.
Parlett 1999, 75.
dogs & bears, family: fox &
geese. See asalto.
dogs & jackals. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:20-22. Bell 1979
[5], 44-45. Botermans et al
1989, 19-21. Dunn-Vaturi
2000, 107-111. Hoerth 2007,
64-68. Murray 1952, 15-16,
21-23. Parlett 1999, 68-70.
a.k.a. fifty-eight holes [the
game of ], hounds & jackals,
palm tree game [the], palms,
shields.
dong wo, family: mancala.
Sources: Eagle 1998, 62-64.
dongjintian, family: man-
cala. Sources: Parlett 1999,
221-222.
doppel-mühle, family:
merels. See nine men’s mor-
ris.
dou shou qi. See jungle game
[the].
double backgammon, fam-
ily: tables. See gegenpuff.
double fox & geese, family:
fox & geese. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 104.
doublets, family: tables.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:17.
Bell 1979 [5], 91. Murray
1952, 121. Parlett 1999, 75-
76. Strutt 1903, 248. a.k.a.
queen’s game [the], renette
doze canes [los], family: ta-
bles. Sources: Murray 1952,
120. Parlett 1999, 75. a.k.a.
doze hermanos [los].
doze hermanos [los], family:
tables. See doze canes [los].
dra kyoti wali, family: dara.
See dili.
draughts, family: draughts.
Sources: Anon 1989, 197-
201. Bell 1979 [4], 1:71-72.
Bell 1979 [5], 26-27. Bell
1980, 35-36. Bell 1988, 37-
38. Botermans et al 1989,
132-133. Botermans 2008,
153-162. Cassell 1896, 373-
381. Falkener 1892, 235.
Fiske 1905, 92-97. Grunfeld
1975, 85-87. Love 1979, 40.
Murray 1952, 72-78. Par-
lett 1999, 250-258. Pritchard
1982, 53-59. Pritchard 2007,
30-34. Provenzo & Provenzo
1990, 195-200. Strutt 1903,
255. a.k.a. Anglo-American
draughts, checkers, dams,
English draughts, forcé [le
jeu], wakanpamugthae.
Draughts for Three, family:
draughts. Sources: Provenzo
& Provenzo 1990, 208-213.
driesticken, family: merels.
Sources: Murray 1952, 39.
driesticken, family: merels.
See nine holes.
dris, dris at-tan ‘ashari,
dris attis‘ a, family: merels.
See nine men’s morris.
dris, family: merels. See three
men’s morris.
dris aththalatha, family:
merels. See nine holes.
dubbel-qvarn, family:
15
merels. See nine men’s mor-
ris.
dugh, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
duodecim scripta. Sources:
Bell 1979 [4], 1:30-34. Bell
1979 [5], 84-85. Bell 1980, 8.
Bell 1988, 17-18. Botermans
et al 1989, 27-28. Botermans
2008, 287-298. Fiske 1905,
174. Forbes 1860, appendix
xxxii-xxxiii. Murray 1952,
30-31. Parlett 1999, 70-72.
a.k.a. ludus duodecim scrip-
torum.
duqurjin, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
Dutch backgammon, fam-
ily: tables. Sources: Parlett
1999, 81-2. Pritchard 2007,
27.
eckha, family: halma. See
halma.
edris a jin. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 2:2-3. Culin 1896,
857. Murray 1952, 138.
a.k.a. genii’s game [the]
egara guti, family: al-
querque. Sources: Murray
1952, 71. Parlett 1999, 245.
ekwe, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 192.
ellaewala-kanda, family:
mancala. See daramutu.
emperador, family: tables.
See ludus anglicorum.
en dodoi, endodoi, family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 199. Parlett 1999, 211-
212. a.k.a. en geishei.
en geishei, family: mancala.
See en dodoi.
English draughts, family:
draughts. See draughts.
English game [the], family:
tables. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 2:15.
English wari, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
 202.
epelle, family: merels. See
tant fant.
érhérhé, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, a.k.a.
kale.
escaques [los]. See kawakib.
eureika, family: tables.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 75.
European chess, family:
chess. See chess.
exchange kono, family:
halma. See five field kono.
ezu ahia ako okwa, family:
mancala. See ako okwe.
faille, family: tables. See fal-
las.
fails, family: tables. See fal-
las.
fallas, family: tables.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:41.
Murray 1952, 123. Parlett
1999, 84. a.k.a. faille, fails,
fayles, minoret.
fang. Sources: Shimizu &
Miyahara 2002, 31-37.
fanorona, family: alquerque.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:25-
26. Bell 1979 [5], 150-
151. Bell 1980, 34-35. Bell
1988, 36. Botermans et al
1989, 114. Murray 1952,
87-89. Parlett 1999, 248-
249. Pritchard 1982, 60-
65. Pritchard 2007, 36-37.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
67-74. Schadd 2008, 3-6.
fanorona telo, family:
merels. See three men’s mor-
ris.
farmers’ chess, family:
chess. See gala.
fästningsspel, family: fox &
geese. See asalto.
fayles, family: tables. See fal-
las.
felli, family: alquerque.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 246.
festungsspiel, family: fox &
geese. See asalto.
fetach, family: alquerque.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 246.
a.k.a. quirach.
ficheall. See fithcheall.
fidchell. See fithcheall.
fifanga, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 224-
225.
fifty-eight holes [the game
of ]. See dogs & jackals.
fighting serpents, family: al-
querque. See awithlaknan-
nai.
filetto, filo, family: merels.
See three men’s morris.
filetto, filo, filomulino, fam-
ily: merels. See nine men’s
morris.
Finnish draughts, family:
draughts. Sources: Parlett
1999, 262-263.
fipenny merills, family:
merels. See five men’s mor-
ris.
fithcheall. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 2:45-46. Forbes 1860,
appendix xliii-xlvi. Murray
1952, 34. Parlett 1999, 203.
a.k.a. ficheall, fidchell.
five field kono, family:
halma. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:98. Bell 1988, 48.
Culin 1895b, 102. Parlett
1999, 133. Sheppard &
Wilkinson 2000, 13. a.k.a.
exchange kono, o-pat-ko-no.
five game [the]. See pancha
keliya.
five men’s morris, family:
merels. Sources: Botermans
et al 1989, 104. Murray
1952, 42-43. Parlett 1999,
117-118. Zaslavsky 2003,
17. a.k.a. fipenny merills,
fivepenny merills, fivepenny
morris, smerelli.
fivepenny merills,
16
fivepenny morris, fam-
ily: merels. See five men’s
morris.
forcé [le jeu], family:
draughts. See draughts.
forkoering, family: tables.
See verquere.
fortress chess, family: chess.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 327.
four balls. See Connect 4.
four field kono. Sources:
Bell 1979 [4], 2:42. Bell
1980, 31. Culin 1895b, 101.
Loader & Loader 1993, 39-
41. Sheppard & Wilkinson
2000, 30. a.k.a. nei-pat-ko-
no.
four-handed chess, family:
chess. Sources: Bell 1988,
31-32. Parlett 1999, 328.
four seasons chess, family:
chess. Sources: Murray
1913, 348-349. Parlett 1999,
326-327.
fox & geese, family: fox &
geese. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
1:76-77. Bell 1979 [5], 50-51.
Bell 1980, 40-41. Bell 1988,
25. Bell & Cornelius 1988,
45-47. Botermans et al 1989,
151-152. Cassell 1896, 392-
394. Culin 1876, 876-877.
Fiske 1905, 146-156. Mur-
ray 1952, 101-104. Gomme
1894, 141-142. Gomme 1898,
298. Grunfeld 1975, 92-93.
Parlett 1999, 185-186, 187-
189. Pritchard 2007, 161.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
167-173. Strutt 1903, 258-
259. Sheppard & Wilkinson
2000, 16. a.k.a. Freystafl,
fuchs im hühnerhof, fuchs
und gänse, fuchs und hühner,
hala-tafl, halatafl, lupo e
pecore, manu, marelle quin-
tuple, marelles, moo, musi-
naykahwhanmetowaywin,
räfspel, ref-skak, renard et
 les poules, schaap en wolf,
tods & lambs, volki ovtsy
fox & geese, family: perugian
game. Sources: Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 46. Cassell 1896,
392-394. Murray 1952, 106.
Parker 1909, 585. Parlett
1999, 190. Pritchard 2007,
161. a.k.a. koti keliya, var-
gen och fären.
French backgammon, fam-
ily: tables. See gegenpuff.
French wari, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
202.
Freystafl, family: fox &
geese. See fox & geese.
Frisian draughts, family:
draughts. Sources: Parlett
1999, 263. a.k.a. dame à la
babilonienne.
fuchs im hühnerhof, family:
fox & geese. See fox & geese.
fuchs und gänse, family: fox
& geese. See fox & geese.
fuchs und hühner, family:
fox & geese. See fox & geese.
gaasespil, family: mehen.
See goose [the game of ].
gabata, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1980, 65-66.
Bell & Cornelius 1988, 30.
Culin 1894, 601. Murray
1952, 204. Parlett 1999, 219-
220. Pritchard 2007, 20-21.
gabata, gabatta, family:
mancala. See guvoota.
gala, family: chess. Sources:
Bell 1979 [5], 22-23. Bell
1980, 29-31. Botermans et
al 1989, 124-125. Parlett
1999, 315-316. a.k.a. farm-
ers’ chess.
gala. Sources: Murray 1952,
55. Parlett 1999, 239.
galatjan, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 175.
gamma, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 180.
a.k.a. nyuwunu bo ana ya,
nyuwunu bouh ana yai.
gammon, family: tables. See
backgammon.
gänsespiel, family: mehen.
See goose [the game of ].
ganzenspel, family: mehen.
See goose [the game of ].
garanguet, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 124.
Parlett 1999, 83.
gavalata, family: ashtapada.
Sources: Culin 1896, 851f.
Murray 1952, 131-132. Par-
lett 1999, 56.
gegenpuf, gegenpuff, fam-
ily: tables. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 128. Parlett
1999, 81-82. a.k.a. con-
trabuf, conträre puff, dou-
ble backgammon, French
backgammon.
genii’s game [the]. See edris
a jin.
German backgammon,
family: tables. See lange
puff.
German draughts, family:
draughts. Sources: Parlett
1999, 262. a.k.a. dammen-
spiel.
German tactics, family: fox
& geese. Sources: Bell 1988,
42-43. Bell & Cornelius
1988, 48-49.
giacchetto, family: tables.
See jacquet.
gifia, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 192-
193.
gioul, family: tables. Sources:
Parlett 1999, 83. Pritchard
2007, 27.
giuthi, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 197-
198. a.k.a. kiuthi.
go, family: go. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:99-111, ii. 59-
61. Bell 1979 [5], 124-126.
17
Bell 1980, 55-61. Bell 1988,
50-51, 98-101. Botermans et
al 1989, 140-142. Botermans
2008, 299-334. Culin 1895b,
91-100. Culin 1896, 868-872,
873-874. Falkener 1892, 241-
250. Grunfeld 1975, 42-51.
Murray 1952, 89-92. Par-
lett 1999, 167-178. Pritchard
1982, 73-82. Pritchard 2007,
66-71. a.k.a. i-go, patok,
wei-ch’i, wei-qi.
go bang, family: go moku.
Sources: Cassell 1896, 395.
go-bang, family: go moku.
Sources: Botermans et al
1989, 108. Grunfeld 1975,
52. Murray 1952, 50. a.k.a.
gomok-narabe.
go bang, family: go moku.
See go moku.
go moku, family: go moku.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:96.
Bell 1988, 46. Botermans
et al 1989, 108. Cassell
1896, 394. Murray 1952,
50. Pritchard 2007, 72.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
147-152. a.k.a. go bang, spoil
five
gol-skuish, family: al-
querque. Sources: Murray
1952, 71.
gold rush. Sources: Bell 1979
[5], 72-73.
gomok-narabe, family: go
moku. See go-bang.
goose [the game of ], fam-
ily: mehen. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:14-16. Bell 1979
[5], 140-141. Bell 1988, 11-
13, 74-75. Botermans 2008,
141-152. Cassell 1896, 395-
396. Culin 1896, 841-842.
Love 1978, 18-19. Murray
1952, 142-143. Parlett 1999,
95-98. Provenzo & Provenzo
1990, 19-27. Seville 2009,
3-6. Strutt 1903, 265.
 a.k.a. gaasespil, gänsespiel,
ganzenspel, oca [giuoco dell’],
oca [juego de la], oie [jeu de
l’], royal game of goose [the]
gospel game [the], family:
hnefatafl. See Saxon hne-
fatafl.
Graeco-Turkish draughts,
family: draughts. See Turk-
ish draughts.
grammai, family: (un-
known). Sources: Murray
1952, 27-28. Parlett 1999,
70. a.k.a. diagrammismos.
grand trictrac, grand
trick-track, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 125.
Strutt 1903, 249.
grand trictrac, family: ta-
bles. Sources: Murray 1952,
126. a.k.a. retour [jeu de].
grande acedrex, family:
chess. Sources: Parlett 1999,
313.
grande acedrex, family:
chess. Sources: Murray
1913, 348. a.k.a. great chess.
grasshopper, family: halma.
Sources: Murray 1952, 52.
Pritchard 2007, 167.
great chess, family: chess.
See grande acedrex.
great chess, family: chess.
See shatranj kabir.
great chess, family: chess.
See Tamerlane’s chess.
guebeta, family: mancala.
See guvoota.
guehe, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 199.
guvoota, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 195-
195. a.k.a. gabata, gabatta,
guebeta.
gwyddbwyll. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 34. Parlett 1999,
202-203.
hala-tafl, halatafl, family:
fox & geese. See fox & geese.
halancola, halankola.
Sources: Depaulis 1998, 31-
32. a.k.a. hilancula, hun-
cosiña, hunkuña, jalankola,
juncuña.
halma, family: halma.
Sources: Anon 1989, 244-
245. Bell 1979 [4], 1:98-99.
Bell 1979 [5], 30-31. Bell
1980, 52-53. Bell 1988, 48,
112-113. Botermans et al
1989, 110-111. Love 1978,
81. Loader & Loader 1993,
139-141. Murray 1952, 51-
52. Parlett 1999, 133-134.
Pritchard 2007, 166-167.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
91-99. Walker 2014, 35-50.
Whitehill 1999, 125. a.k.a.
eckha.
halusa, halusi, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
166.
han. Sources: Murray 1952,
13. Falkener 1892, 83-90,
359-360. a.k.a. bowl [game
of the].
hare [the], family: mancala.
See arneb [el].
hasami shogi, family: go
moku. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:97. Bell 1988,
47. Botermans 2008, 513-
522. Parlett 1999, 125-
126. Pritchard 2007, 65.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
153-157. Sheppard &
Wilkinson 2000, 27.
hasami shogi, family: latrun-
culi. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:97-98. Bell 1988,
41. Botermans 2008, 523-
526. Murray 1913, 147.
Murray 1952, 54. Parlett
1999, 239. Pritchard 2007,
65. Sheppard & Wilkinson
2000, 28.
hat diviyan keliya, fam-
ily: leopard game. Sources:
18
Botermans et al 1989,
153. Murray 1952, 106-107.
Parker 1909, 580-581. Par-
lett 1999, 195. Zaslavsky
2003, 29-30. a.k.a. seven
leopards [the].
hawalis, family: mancala.
Sources: de Voogt 2003, 95-
98. de Voogt 2009, 33.
helga, family: yoté. See
choko.
hewakam-keliya, family: al-
querque. See mogol putt’han.
high jump, family: al-
querque. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:84. Bell 1979 [5], 81.
Bell 1988, 24. Botermans et
al 1989, 122. Murray 1952,
66. Parker 1909, 604-605.
Parlett 1999, 246. a.k.a. ko-
ruböddo, lorkaböd, natt klab
ash-shawk, siga.
hilancula. See halancola.
hnefatafl, family: hnefatafl.
Sources: Astrop 1980, 10.
Botermans et al 1989, 119-
120. Botermans 2008, 493-
496. Loader & Loader
1993, 147-149. Murray 1913,
445. Murray 1952, 55-64.
Parlett 1999, 186, 196-204.
Pritchard 2007, 16-17. Rid-
dler 2007, 256-262. Walker
2013. a.k.a. tafl, tæfl.
hounds & jackals. See dogs
& jackals.
huairu. See pisca.
hue-ta-quee-che-ka, family:
zohn ahl. Sources: Murray
1952, 152.
hujura, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
huli-kavilemane ata, family:
tiger game. Sources: Vasan-
tha 2003, 29-30.
huli-kavilemane ata, family:
tiger game. Sources: Vasan-
tha 2003, 30.
huli-mane ata, family: leop-
 ard game. Sources: Vasan-
tha 2003, 27-29.
huli-meke ata, family: tiger
game. Sources: Vasantha
2003, 30.
huncosiña, hunkuña. See
halancola.
hurdle. See tsikehi.
hus, huts, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:76-
77. Grunfeld 1975, 24-25.
Murray 1952, 209. Parlett
1999, 220-221.
hyena, hyena game [the].
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:12-
14. Bell 1979 [5], 46-47.
Murray 1952, 143-144. Par-
lett 1999, 89-91. a.k.a. l’ib el
merafib.
i, family: mancala. Sources:
Murray 1952, 183.
i, family: mancala. Sources:
Murray 1952, 187.
i-go. See go.
i na, family: mancala. See
nah.
i pere, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 183.
Icelandic backgammon,
family: tables. See kotra.
ichwe, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 183.
igori, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 183.
ikibuguzo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 217.
a.k.a. uruheisho, uruheso
ikisoro, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 224.
imperial, family: tables. See
ludus anglicorum.
Imperial game [the], family:
tables. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 2:16 Murray 1952, 123..
Parlett 1999, 84. Strutt
1903, 249.
inaani, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Culin 1907, 120-
121. Murray 1952, 152.
Indian & jackrabbits, fam-
ily: tiger game. See ko-app-
paw-na.
Indians & trappers, fam-
ily: halma. Sources: Parlett
1999, 271. a.k.a. smugglers
& customs officers.
ingilith, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 224.
International draughts,
family: draughts. Sources:
Parlett 1999, 264-266.
intotoi, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 200.
intuvigai zuli gairagai, fam-
ily: zohn ahl. See quince.
Iranian chess, family: chess.
See chatrang.
Irish, family: tables. See to-
das tablas.
isafuba, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 603.
Murray 1952, 225.
ise-ozin-egbe, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
180. a.k.a. perseverance
game.
Islamic chess, family: chess.
See shatranj.
Italian draughts, family:
draughts. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:73. Murray 1952, 78.
Parlett 1999, 261-262. a.k.a.
dama.
iyagbe, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 191.
iyogh, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 189-
190.
j’erin, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 187.
j’odu, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 181.
a.k.a. jodorakase
jacquet, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 126-
127. Parlett 1999, 78. a.k.a.
chaquete, giacchetto.
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jacquet de Versailles, fam-
ily: tables. Sources: Murray
1952, 127. Parlett 1999, 78.
jalankola. See halancola.
Japanese chess, family:
chess. See shogi.
jara-badàkh, family: merels.
See nine holes.
jinx. Sources: Botermans
2008, 425-434.
jirig, family: merels. Sources:
Zaslavsky 2003, 21-22.
jodorakase, family: mancala.
See j’odu.
jumping sugoroku, family:
promotion game. See tobi-
sugoroku.
juncuña. See halancola.
jungle game [the]. Sources:
Astrop 1980, 5. Bell 1979 [4],
1:69-70. Bell 1979 [5], 118-
119. Botermans 2008, 265-
276. Parlett 1999, 142-144.
Pritchard 2007, 163. a.k.a.
dou shou qi, Law of the Jun-
gle.
jungka, family: mancala. See
chato.
juroku musashi, family:
tiger game. Sources: Culin
1896, 874. Murray 1952, 101.
a.k.a. sixteen soldiers.
juroku musashi, family:
tiger game. See yasasukari
musashi.
k‘ab albaidar, family:
merels. See nine men’s mor-
ris.
k’uang, family: tiger game.
See cercar la liebre.
ka-wa-su-suts, family: zohn
ahl. Sources: Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 60-61.
kalah, kalaha, family: man-
cala. Sources: Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 29. Provenzo
& Provenzo 1990, 109-114.
a.k.a. mancala.
kale, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 602.
Murray 1952, 183.
kale, family: mancala. See
érhérhé.
kale, family: mancala. See
wari.
kaloleh, family: mancala. See
bajangkaq.
kanj guti, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 169.
kaooa. Sources: Bell 1979 [5],
61. Bell & Cornelius 1988,
48. Murray 1952, 112. a.k.a.
vultures & crows.
kara, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 194.
karat, family: alquerque.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 246.
kare, karnum, karnun
shiva, family: dara.
Sources: Murray 1952, 49.
Parlett 1999, 123-124.
katra, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 214-
215.
katra, family: mancala.
Sources: de Voogt 1999, 111-
112. a.k.a. tsotra.
katra, family: mancala.
Sources: de Voogt 1999, 113-
114. a.k.a. paika.
katra be, family: mancala.
See bao kiswahili.
katro, family: mancala.
Sources: de Voogt 1999, 112-
113.
kawada keliya, kawade ke-
liya. Sources: Culin 1896,
851. Murray 1952, 141.
kawakib. Sources: Murray
1913, 343, 349-351. Murray
1952, 156-157. Parlett 1999,
95. a.k.a. al-falakiya, es-
caques [los].
kawasukuts, family: zohn
ahl. Sources: Culin 1907,
122-123. Murray 1952, 152.
kechukawe. Sources: De- kiuthi, family: mancala. See
paulis 1998, 42-44. a.k.a. kiusu.
quechucague, quechucayu. ko-app-paw-na, family: tiger
kerala, family: (race). game. Sources: Culin 1907,
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:3- 798. Murray 1952, 99. Par-
5. Botermans et al 1989, lett 1999, 187. a.k.a. Indian
157-158. & jackrabbits.
ketch-dolt, family: tables. ko-ko-nag’n. Sources: Culin
See catch-dolt. 1896, 880. Culin 1907, 792.
kezute, family: zohn ahl. See ko-na-ne, konane, family:
quince. solitaire. Sources: Bell 1979
kharbga, family: latrunculi. [5], 132-133. Bell 1988,
See seega. 42. Ernst 1995, 1, 19-20.
khutka bois, family: man- Hearn 2009, 297-299. Mur-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952, ray 1952, 97. Parlett 1999,
169. 246. Thompson 2005, 2-3.
kiarabu, family: mancala. Walker 2014, 127-140.
See Arabian bao. kolowis awithlaknannai,
kiarabu, family: mancala. family: alquerque. See aw-
See bao kiarabu. ithlaknannai.
kingser, family: tiger game. komari, family: mancala.
Sources: Sheppard & Sources: Murray 1952, 206.
Wilkinson 2000, 37. komikan, komina, family:
kinsgoot, family: zohn ahl. tiger game. Sources: De-
See chingskoot. paulis 1998, 34, 36-38, 44-
kints kut, family: zohn ahl. 46. a.k.a. comican, com-
See chingskoot. ina, cumi, cumisiña, len y las
kioz, family: tablan. Sources: ovejas [el], taptana.
Murray 1952, 96. kon-tjil, kontjil, family:
kisolo, family: mancala. merels. See sam k’i.
Sources: Murray 1952, 201. Korean chess, family: chess.
kit cat kannio, family: See changgi.
merels. See noughts & koro, family: mancala.
crosses. Sources: Murray 1952, 183-
kiusu, family: mancala. 184.
Sources: Murray 1952, 198. koruböddo, family: al-
a.k.a. kiuthi. querque. Sources: Murray
kiuthi, family: mancala. 1952, 83. a.k.a. lorkaböd.
Sources: Botermans et al koruböddo, family: al-
1989, 177. Murray 1952, 198 querque. See high jump.
[7.6.13]. koti keliya, family: perugian
kleine mühlenspiel, family: game. See fox & geese.
merels. See nine holes. koti sellama, family: leopard
kiuthi, family: mancala. game. See rafaya.
Sources: Murray 1952, 198 kotiyo saha harak, family:
[7.6.11]. tiger game. See diviyan ke-
kiuthi, family: mancala. See liya.
giuthi. kotra, family: tables.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
20
 2:19-23. a.k.a. Icelandic
backgammon.
kotra, family: tables.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 79.
kotra, family: tables. See ver-
quere.
kotu ellima, family: al-
querque. Sources: Murray
1952, 68.
kotu-baendum, family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 173. Parker 1909, 598.
kpo, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 603-
604. Murray 1952, 182.
a.k.a. poo.
kowwu dunki, family: al-
querque. See dash-guti.
kowwu dunki, family: al-
querque. See lau kata kati.
kriegspiel, family: chess.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:39-
41. Parlett 1999, 324-325.
a.k.a. blind chess.
kubeia, family: senet.
Sources: Bell 1979 [5], 61.
kuwanroku, family: promo-
tion game. Sources: Murray
1952, 146.
l’ib el merafib. See hyena.
lambs and tigers, family:
leopard game. See puliju-
dam.
lange puff, family: tables.
Sources: Falkener 1892, 254.
Murray 1952, 128. Par-
lett 1999, 77. a.k.a. Ger-
man backgammon, Russian
backgammon.
laomuzhukeng, family: man-
cala. Sources: Eagle 1998,
64-66.
laomuzhuqi, family: man-
cala. Sources: Eagle 1998,
60-62.
laumuzhuqi, family: man-
cala. Sources: Eagle 1998,
66.
laquet, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 123.
Parlett 1999, 79.
larger merels [the], family:
merels. See nine men’s mor-
ris.
lasca, laska, Laskers, fam-
ily: lasca. Sources: Par-
lett 1999, 271-272. Pritchard
1982, 102-105. Pritchard
2007, 40-41.
latrunculi, family: latrun-
culi. See ludus latrunculo-
rum.
lau kata kati, lau kati kata,
family: alquerque. Sources:
Bell 1979 [5], 63. Bell 1988,
91. Bell & Cornelius 1988,
42. Murray 1952, 70. Par-
lett 1999, 246. a.k.a. kowwu
dunki.
Law of the Jungle. See jun-
gle game [the].
lay gwet kyah, family: tiger
game. See sua ghin gnua.
leab el-akil. See li‘b ‘aqila.
leap-frog, family: solitaire.
Sources: Murray 1952, 93-
94. Parlett 1999, 156.
legwet kya, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
lela, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 206.
len choa, family: leopard
game. Sources: Botermans
et al 1989, 153. Murray 1952,
106. Parlett 1999, 195, 196.
len cua kin ngoa, family:
tiger game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
len doat. Sources: Murray
1952, 138-140.
len saka, len sake, family:
tables. Sources: Murray
1952, 116.
len-doat, family: pachisi.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 47-48.
21
len y las ovejas [el]. See
komina.
leopard game [the], family:
leopard game. See puliju-
dam.
leopards & cattle, family:
tiger game. See diviyan ke-
liya.
leopards & cows, family:
tiger game. See cows & leop-
ards.
leopards’ game, family:
tiger game. See diviyan ke-
liya.
leopards’ square, family:
tiger game. See diviyan ke-
liya.
leyla-gobale, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
195-196.
li‘b al-ghashim, family:
mancala. Sources: Bell &
Cornelius 1988, 25-26. Lane
1836, 51-53. Murray 1952,
167. a.k.a. unlearned [game
of the].
li‘b ‘aqila, li‘b hakimi, fam-
ily: mancala. Sources: Culin
1894, 598. Lane 1836, 2:54.
Murray 1952, 167-168. a.k.a.
leab el-akil.
li‘b majnuni, family: man-
cala. Sources: Culin 1894,
597-598. Murray 1952, 167.
a.k.a. crazy game [the].
li‘b roseya, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 598-
599. Murray 1952, 167.
li‘bat iblis, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 179-
180.
limb chess, family: chess.
Sources: Murray 1913, 343.
line of three, family: merels.
Sources: Bell 1979 [5], 145.
Botermans et al 1989, 103.
a.k.a. three in a row.
lion and goats chess, family:
perugian game. See shatranj
 shir bakri.
liubo. Sources: Parlett 1999,
72-74.
lok, family: mancala. See
obridjie.
Lombard game [the], fam-
ily: tables. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 2:16. Strutt 1903,
249.
longbeu-a-cha, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
169.
lontu-holo, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:73-
74.
lontu-holo, family: mancala.
See adji-pre.
lorkaböd, family: alquerque.
See high jump.
lorkaböd, family: alquerque.
See koruböddo.
losing chess, family: chess.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 324.
a.k.a. take me.
losing draughts, los-
ing game [the], loser
draughts, family: draughts.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:72-
73. Bell 1979 [5], 28. Bell
1988, 39. Botermans 2008,
162. Murray 1952, 81-82.
Parlett 1999, 273. Provenzo
& Provenzo 1990, 201-202.
a.k.a. Belgian checkers,
cocimbert, poddavki,
verkehrtes damenspiel
[das].
Ludo, family: pachisi.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:12.
Bell 1979 [5], 112-113. Bell
1988, 10. Love 1978, 32.
Murray 1952, 138. Par-
lett 1999, 49. Provenzo &
Provenzo 1990, 49-52.
ludus anglicorum, family:
tables. Sources: Murray
1952, 124. Parlett 1999,
82. Strutt 1903, 248-249.
a.k.a. emperador, testa,
tieste, imperial.
ludus calculorum. Sources:
Strutt 1903, 253.
ludus duodecim scripto-
rum. See duodecim scripta.
ludus latrunculorum, fam-
ily: latrunculi. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:84-87. Bell 1988,
23, 84-85. Botermans et al
1989, 26. Falkener 1892, 37-
62, 358. Forbes 1860, ap-
pendix xxi-xxxii. Murray
1952, 14-15, 33-34. Parlett
1999, 235-237. Strutt 1903,
253. a.k.a. tau, latrunculi.
ludus Lumbardorium, fam-
ily: tables. See Lombard
game [the].
ludus philosophorum. See
rithmomachia.
ludus rebellionis, family:
perugian game. Sources:
Murray 1952, 105-106. Par-
lett 1999, 189.
ludus scrupulorum.
Sources: Strutt 1903, 253.
luk tsut k’i, family: merels.
See achi.
luk tsut k’i, family: merels.
See three men’s morris.
lupo e pecore, family: fox &
geese. See fox & geese.
m’raantsou, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
224.
madelinette, family: horse-
shoe. Sources: Loader &
Loader 1993, 35-37.
madji, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 601.
Murray 1952, 181.
magical game [the], family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 180. a.k.a. ’magical
game or contest between aru-
anran and esigie, two of the
sons of oba ozolua’.
maharajah, maharajah
and the sepoys [the], fam-
22
ily: chess. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:65. Bell 1979 [5], 21.
Bell 1988, 34. Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 43-44. Falkener
1892, 217-224. Parlett 1999,
192.
main chator, family: chess.
Sources: Forbes 1860, 262-
275. Murray 1913, 95-107.
Parlett 1999, 295. a.k.a.
chator, Malay chess.
main chongkak, family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 174.
main pachih, family: ashta-
pada. Sources: Murray 1952,
131.
main rimau, main rimau
kambing, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
main tabal, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 116.
main tapal empat, family:
tiger game. Sources: Murray
1952, 109. Parlett 1999, 194.
mak khom, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 173.
mak-yek, family: latrunculi.
Sources: Murray 1952, 54.
Parlett 1999, 239. a.k.a.
apit-sodok.
mak yep, family: alquerque.
Sources: Murray 1952, 71.
makonn, family: mancala.
Sources: de Voogt 2009, 33.
makruk, family: chess.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:31-
33. Bell 1980, 26. Falkener
1892, 191-195. Murray 1913,
113-117. Parlett 1999, 295.
a.k.a. Siamese chess, Thai
chess.
makvær, family: draughts.
Sources: Murray 1952, 79.
Parlett 1999, 263. a.k.a.
marquere.
makwinni, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 189.
Malay chess, family: chess.
See main chator.
malen’gan, malingan.
Sources: Murray 1952, 97.
malmosdi, family: merels.
See nine men’s morris.
malomjatek, family: merels.
See nine men’s morris.
mamatyang-matyang, fam-
ily: tiger game. Sources:
Murray 1952, 110. a.k.a.
tigers.
Man in the Moon [Game
of ], family: latrunculi. See
seega.
mancala, family: mancala.
See kalaha.
manachan, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 110.
mandarin promotion [the
game of ], family: promo-
tion game. See shing kun t’o.
mandoli, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 166.
mangala, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 168
[7.1.9]. Parker 1909, 601-
603.
mangala, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 168
[7.1.10]. Parker 1909, 601.
mangala, family: mancala.
See moungala.
mangala, family: mancala.
See um el tuweisat.
mangala, family: mancala.
See um el-bagara.
mangalpata, family: al-
querque. See mogol putt’han.
mankala’h, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:113-
115.
manu, family: fox & geese.
See fox & geese.
mar, family: alquerque. See
mogol putt’han.
marella, marelle, marelli,
marro, family: alquerque.
See alquerque.
marelle quintuple, family:
fox & geese. See fox & geese.
marelles, family: fox & geese.
See fox & geese.
marelles, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
marène, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
marquere, family: draughts.
See makvær.
marro, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
marro, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
matoe, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 175.
mawkarkatiya, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
169. a.k.a. cherrapunji.
mbangbi, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 193.
mbau, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 602.
Murray 1952, 201.
mechiwa, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 175.
medio emperador [el], fam-
ily: tables. Sources: Murray
1952, 124. Parlett 1999, 83.
mefuhva, family: mancala.
Sources: Botermans et al
1989, 178-179. Murray 1952,
211.
mehen, family: mehen.
Sources: Bell 1979 [5], 120-
121. Bell 1988, 11, 104-105.
Bell & Cornelius 1988, 64.
Kendall 2007, 33-45. Parlett
1999, 89. Pusch 2007, 82-
84. Rothöhler 1999, 10-23.
a.k.a. coiled snake, snake
game [the].
melnichny, family: merels.
See nine men’s morris.
melnitsa, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
mensub, family: mancala.
23
Sources: Murray 1952, 174-
175.
mereles [jeu de], family: al-
querque. See alquerque.
mérelles, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
mérelles, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
mérelles à six tables, fam-
ily: merels. See six men’s
morris.
meuchoh, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 174.
meulih, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 174.
meurimung-rimung, family:
tiger game. Sources: Murray
1952, 110.
meurimüeng-rimüeng-do,
family: leopard game.
Sources: Murray 1952, 107.
meurimüeng-rimüeng
peüet ploh, family: al-
querque. See ratti-chitti-
bakri.
meuta’, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 174.
mig mang, ming mang.
Sources: Bell 1979 [5], 126-
127. Bell 1980, 37-39. Bell
1988, 42. Botermans 2008,
619-626. Murray 1952, 97.
Parlett 1999, 180. Sheppard
& Wilkinson 2000, 29.
mingma, family: draughts.
Sources: Murray 1952, 82.
minoret, family: mancala.
See fallas.
mlyn, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
mogol putt’han, family: al-
querque. Sources: Boter-
mans et al 1989, 114. Culin
1896, 875. Murray 1952,
67-68. Parker 1909, 582.
Parlett 1999, 246. Shur-
reef & Herklots 1832, appx.
liii. a.k.a. athara guti,
athara gutiala teoria, ban-
 gale, baz, dam, dam hariman,
hewakam-keliya, mangal-
pata, mar, mughal-pathan,
shanzdahu-kattaru, sixteen
soldiers, solah-guttiya, tic-
cha, uno-alti-tashu.
molenspel, family: merels.
See nine men’s morris.
mölle, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
Mongolian chess, family:
chess. Sources: Parlett 1999,
296.
moo, family: fox & geese. See
fox & geese.
mooru mane ata, family:
merels. See nine holes.
morahha, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 224.
moulin [jeu de], family:
merels. See nine men’s mor-
ris.
moultezim, family: tables.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 78.
Pritchard 2007, 27.
moungala, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 194.
a.k.a. mangala.
msuwa, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 212.
msuwa wa kunja, family:
mancala. Sources: Murray
1952, 212.
mu torere. Sources: As-
trop 1980, 13. Bell 1979 [4],
2:149-151. Bell 1979 [5], 42-
43. Bell 1980, 48-49. Bell
1988, 50. Bell & Cornelius
1988, 12-13. Botermans et
al 1989, 143-145. Loader &
Loader 1993, 43-47. Murray
1952, 93. Parlett 1999, 160-
161. Sheppard & Wilkinson
2000, 24.
mudrunggum, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
mughal-pathan, family: al-
querque. See mogol putt’han.
mühle, mühlenspiel, family: nah, family: mancala.
merels. See nine men’s mor- Sources: Murray 1952, 187.
ris. a.k.a. i na.
mulinello, family: merels. nam-nam, family: mancala.
See nine men’s morris. Sources: Parlett 1999, 212-
mulinello doppio, family: la- 213. a.k.a. oware adi.
trunculi. Sources: Fiske nambidi, family: mancala.
1905, 107-108. Sources: Murray 1952, 210.
mulinello triplo, family: a.k.a. chisolo.
merels. Sources: Fiske 1905, nao-guti, family: merels. See
108. nine men’s morris.
mulinello quadruple, mu- naranj, family: mancala.
linello quadruplo, family: Sources: Culin 1894, 600.
merels. Sources: Bell 1979 Murray 1952, 170.
[4], 2:57. Bell & Cornelius nard, family: tables. Sources:
1988, 12. Fiske 1905, 108. Botermans 2008, 689-698.
Murray 1952, 50. Murray 1952, 113-115. Par-
mulino, family: merels. See lett 1999, 74-75. a.k.a. nard-
three men’s morris. shir.
mungala, family: mancala. nard, family: latrunculi.
Sources: Culin, 601. Sources: Murray 1952, 54.
murabamba, family: merels. Parlett 1999, 239.
Sources: Zaslavsky 2003, 23- nardshir, family: tables. See
25. nard.
musinaykahwhanmetowaywin, natatu, family: mancala. See
family: fox & geese. See fox chisolo.
& geese. natt klab ash-shawk, fam-
mutingwano, family: man- ily: alquerque. See high
cala. Sources: Murray 1952, jump.
224. nchuwa, family: mancala.
mweiso, family: mancala. Sources: Murray 1952, 209-
Sources: Murray 1952, 210.
217. a.k.a. bahendagabo, nchwomba, family: mancala.
ruweisho. Sources: Murray 1952, 209.
mweso, family: mancala. a.k.a. nsoli.
Sources: Murray 1952, 199. ndim-ndum, family: man-
a.k.a. akileyisit, okusora. cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
mweso, family: mancala. 189.
Sources: Murray 1952, 217- ne’baku’thana, family: zohn
219. Pritchard 2007, 19-20. ahl. Sources: Murray 1952,
myles, family: tables. 155. a.k.a. tsonä.
Sources: Murray 1952, 123. negensticken, family:
Parlett 1999, 79-80. merels. See nine men’s mor-
mylis, family: tables. ris.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:19. nei-pat-ko-no. See four field
mylys, family: tables. kono.
Sources: Strutt 1903, 249. nerenchi, family: merels. See
mylna, family: merels. See nine holes.
nine men’s morris.
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nerenchi, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
nerenchi, nerenchi keliya,
family: merels. Sources:
Murray 1952, 47. Parker
1909, 577-580. Zaslavsky
2003, 22.
nine holes, family: merels.
Sources: Murray 1952, 39-
40. Parlett 1999, 115-116.
Vasantha 2003, 26-27. Za-
slavsky 2003, 4-7. a.k.a. aki-
dada, char pur, chikkiri, dri-
esticken, dris ath-thalatha,
jara-badàkh, kleine mooru
mane ata, mühlenspiel,
nerenchi, nulochen, san-
noku-narabe, tre-guti, trip
trap trul.
nine men’s morris, fam-
ily: merels. Sources: Anon
1989, 246-248. Bell 1979
[4], 1:93-95. Bell 1979 [5],
142-144. Bell 1980, 50-
51. Bell 1988, 45, 76-77.
Bell & Cornelius 1988, 8-9.
Botermans et al 1989, 104-
106. Botermans 2008, 55-
64. Cassell 1896, 397-398.
Culin 1907, 793, 797f, 798.
Fiske 1905, 97-146. Gomme
1894, 414-420. Grunfeld
1975, 59-61. Loader &
Loader 1993, 27-29. Love
1978, 62-63. Murray 1952,
43-48. Parlett 1999, 118-
120. Pritchard 1982, 128-
131. Pritchard 2007, 28-29.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
29-33. Schädler 2000, 112-
116. Sheppard & Wilkin-
son 2000, 9. Strutt 1841,
317-318. Vasantha 2003,
27. Walker 2014, 95-
110. Zaslavsky 2003, 18-20.
a.k.a. akidada, alquerque de
nueve, awithlaknannai, bara-
guti pait pait, bidaria, cas-
tro, doppel-mühle, dris, dris
at-tan ‘ashari, dris at-tis‘a,
dubbel-qvarn, dugh, duqur-
jin, filo, filo-mulino, filetto,
k‘ab al-baidar, larger merels
[the], malmosdi, malomjatek,
marène, marro, melnichny,
melnitsa, mérelles, mlyn,
molenspel, mölle, moulin
[jeu de], mühle, mühlenspiel,
mulinello, mylna, nao-guti,
negensticken, paggada ata,
paitariya, picaria, pitarilla,
qvarn, real, riga di noue, riz,
schafzagel, sgjoug, sidere, si-
perde, smerelli, tavola, tavola
di molino, tria, triodi, trique,
yakamaido.
ninuki renju, family: go
moku. Sources: Bell 1979
[5], 127.
njombwa, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 208-
209.
noughts & crosses, family:
merels. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:91. Bell 1979 [5], 145.
Bell 1988, 45. Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 5-6. Botermans
et al 1989, 103. Botermans
2008, 68. Cassell 1896, 829.
Gomme 1894, 311, 420-421.
Gomme 1898, 295-296. Mur-
ray 1952, 40. Parlett 1999,
112. Zaslavsky 2003, 8-10.
a.k.a. kit cat kannio, tic-tac-
toe, tick-tack-toe, tik tak tol,
tip-tap-toe, tit-tat-toe, tripp
trapp trull.
nsoli, family: mancala. See
nchwomba.
nulochen, family: merels.
See nine holes.
nyout. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
1:2-4. Bell 1979 [5], 32-33.
Bell 1980, 12-14. Bell 1988,
8-9. Bell & Cornelius 1988,
59-60. Botermans 2008, 641-
654. Culin 1895b, 66-76.
Culin 1896, 681-685. Mur-
25
ray 1952, 142. Parlett 1999,
40-42. Pritchard 2007, 13.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
189-194. a.k.a. yut.
nyuwunu bo ana ya,
nyuwunu bouh ana yai,
family: mancala. See
gamma.
o-pat-ko-no, family: halma.
See five field kono.
oblong chess, family: chess.
Sources: Murray 1913, 340-
341. a.k.a. al-mamduda, al-
mustatila, at-tawila.
obridjie, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 185-
186, 187. Zaslavsky 2003, 39-
41. a.k.a. adi, adzua, lok.
oca [giuoco dell’], family:
mehen. See goose [the game
of ].
oca [juego de la], family:
mehen. See goose [the game
of ].
ochi, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 224.
ofanfelling, ofan-
fellingartafl, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 121.
Parlett 1999, 76.
officers & men, family: fox
& geese. See asalto.
officers & sepoys, family:
fox & geese. See asalto.
ogori, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 183.
ohohla. Culin 1907, 794.
oie [jeu de l’], family: mehen.
See goose [the game of ].
okusora, family: mancala.
See mweso.
okwe, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 185.
okwe, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 187-
188.
okwe, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 189.
okwe, family: mancala. 12. Bell 1979 [5], 110-111. Whitehill 1999, 124.
Sources: Murray 1952, 191- Bell 1980, 14-16. Bell 1988, parchis, family: pachisi. See
192. 9-10. Bell & Cornelius 1988, barjis.
okwe, family: mancala. 62-64. Botermans 2008, pareia de entrada, family:
Sources: Murray 1952, 192 189-198. Cassell 1896, 819. tables. See puff.
[7.5.57]. Culin 1896, 851-854. Grun- pásá, family: pachisi. See
okwe, family: mancala. feld 1975, 27-29. Falkener chausar.
Sources: Murray 1952, 192 1892, 257-262. Murray 1952, pasa. Sources: Depaulis 1998,
[7.5.58]. 135, 136. Parker 1909, 32.
okwe, family: mancala. 619-621. Parlett 1999, 42- pasang. Sources: Bell 1980,
Sources: Murray 1952, 194. 46. Pritchard 2007, 14-15. 19-21. Bell 1988, 52.
okwe, family: mancala. See Provenzo & Provenzo 1990, pasit, family: pachisi.
ako okwe. 41-48. Shurreef & Herklots Sources: Culin 1896, 856.
olinda keliya, family: man- 1832, appx. lii-liii. Vasantha Murray 1952, 135-136. a.k.a.
cala. Sources: Bell 1988, 57- 2003, 32-33. Walker 2014, ansah pyit-thi, chwe pyit-thi.
58. Parker 1909, 587-594. de 17-34. a.k.a. bakkis, patch- pataballang, family: tables.
Voogt 2000, 91-99. esi. Sources: Murray 1952, 116.
omana guntalu, family: padagang, family: tables. patchesi, family: pachisi. See
mancala. See chenne mane See adagang. pachisi.
ata. paggada ata, family: merels. patok. See go.
on-moul-ko-no, family: See nine men’s morris. patol, family: zohn ahl.
horseshoe. See pong hau pahada keliya, family: Sources: Botermans et al
k’i. pachisi. Sources: Murray 1989, 160. Murray 1952, 153.
ot-jin, family: mancala. See 1952, 134. Parker 1909, 611- a.k.a. tugea.
aw-li on-nam ot-tjin. 614. patol, family: zohn ahl.
Othello. See reversi. paika, family: mancala. See Sources: Murray 1952, 151.
ouranomachia. Sources: katra. patolli, family: pachisi.
Forbes 1860, 138. paitariya, family: merels. Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:6-9.
oura, family: mancala. See See nine men’s morris. Bell 1979 [5], 108-109. Bell
aware. pallam kuzhi, pallamkurie, 1988, 155. Bell & Cornelius
oware adi, family: mancala. pallanguli, pallankuli, 1988, 61. Culin 1896, 854-
See nam-nam. family: mancala. Sources: 855. Murray 1952, 147. Par-
owasakut, owasokotz, fam- Bell 1979 [4], 1:115-116. Bell lett 1999, 51-54. Verbeeck
ily: zohn ahl. Sources: Culin 1980, 63-64. Bell 1988, 55- 1998, 92-93.
1907, 120. Murray 1952, 153. 56. Murray 1952, 169-170. paume carie, paumecary,
a.k.a. wasokuts. Parlett 1999, 219-219. family: tables. Sources:
pachgarhwa, family: man- pallankuli, family: mancala. Murray 1952, 120. Parlett
cala. Sources: Murray 1952, See chonku. 1999, 76. Strutt 1903, 249.
169. palm tree game [the]. See paumecary, family: tables.
pachih, family: pachisi. dogs & jackals. See puff.
Sources: Murray 1952, 136. palms. See dogs & jackals. pedreria, family: merels. See
pachı̂s, family: pachisi. pancha, pancha keliya, three men’s morris.
Sources: Culin 1896, 856. panche, family: (race). peki, family: mancala.
pachis, family: pachisi. See Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:1- Sources: Murray 1952, 201.
pichas. 2. Murray 1952, 140-141. pendus [les], family: merels.
pachis, family: pachisi. See Parker 1909, 609-610.a.k.a. Sources: Murray 1952, 39.
sokkatan. five game [the]. pente grammai. Sources:
pachisi, family: pachisi. parcheesi, family: pachisi. Murray 1952, 28-29.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:9- Sources: Parlett 1999, 48-49. Schädler 2009, 169-192.

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perali kotuma, perali ko-
tuwa, peralikatuma, fam-
ily: alquerque. Sources:
Botermans et al 1989, 114-
115. Grunfeld 1975, 40.
Murray 1952, 68. Parker
1909, 583-584. Provenzo &
Provenzo 1990, 80-84.
pereaüni, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 215-
216.
perseverance game, family:
mancala. See ise-ozin-egbe.
Persian chess, family: chess.
See chatrang.
pesos, pessos. family: la-
trunculi See petteia.
petit trictrac, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 124-
125. a.k.a. dickedack, tric-
trac.
petteia, family: latrunculi.
Sources: Forbes 1860, ap-
pendix xviii-xxi. Murray
1952, 27. Parlett 1999, 234.
Strutt 1903, 254. a.k.a. pe-
sos, pessos, poleis, polis.
philosophers’ game [the].
See rithmomachia.
picaria, family: merels.
Sources: Culin 1907, 797f,
798.
picaria, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
pichas, family: pachisi.
Sources: Murray 1952, 136.
a.k.a. pachis.
piprjall, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 127.
Parlett 1999, 79.
pisca, piscasitha. Sources:
Depaulis 1998, 32-33. a.k.a.
huairu, wayrusitha.
pitarilla, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
pitarilla, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
plaisant [le jeu], family:
draughts. Sources: Bell
1988, 37.
plakato, plakoto, family: ta-
bles. Sources: Bell 1988,
20-21. Parlett 1999, 83.
Pritchard 2007, 27. a.k.a.
tavli.
planks. Sources: Botermans
2008, 497-512.
plein, family: tables. Sources:
Murray 1952, 126.
poddavki, family: draughts.
See losing draughts.
poleis, polis, family: latrun-
culi. See petteia.
Polish checkers, Polish
draughts, family: draughts.
See continental draughts.
pon chochotl, family: al-
querque. See aiyawatstani.
pon chochotl, family: tiger
game. See cercar la liebre.
pong hau k’i, family: horse-
shoe. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
2:56. Bell 1980, 48. Bell
1988, 50. Bell & Cornelius
1988, 12. Culin 1895b, 101.
Murray 1952, 92. Parlett
1999, 160. a.k.a. do-guti, on-
moul-ko-no, sua tok tong.
poo, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 601.
poo, family: mancala. See
kpo.
pretwa, family: alquerque.
Sources: Murray 1952, 71.
Parlett 1999, 245.
provincial game [the], fam-
ily: tables. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 2:17. Murray 1952,
123. Parlett 1999, 84. Strutt
1903, 249.
puff, puff-spiel, family: ta-
bles. Sources: Murray
1952, 128. Parlett 1999,
76. a.k.a. buf, buffa, buffa
cortese, pareia de entrada,
paumecary.
puhulmuti, puhulmutu,
family: mancala. Sources:
27
Murray 1952, 170-172.
Parker 1909, 594-597.
pulijudam, family: leopard
game. Sources: Astrop 1980,
7. Bell 1979 [4], 2:47-48.
Bell 1980, 39-40. Bell &
Cornelius 1988, 43. Boter-
mans et al 1989, 153. Murray
1952, 107. Parlett 1999, 195-
196. Zaslavsky 2003, 31-32.
a.k.a. lambs and tigers, leop-
ard game [the], tiger, tiger
game [the].
puluc. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
1:89-90. Bell 1979 [5], 94-
95. Murray 1952, 149. Par-
lett 1999, 226-227. Verbeeck
1998, 85-90. a.k.a. boolik,
bul.
puma. Sources: Depaulis
1998, 34.
pyramid, family: halma.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:57-
58. Bell 1979 [5], 29. Boter-
mans et al 1989, 109.
qamish uyuni, family:
tablan. See tâb.
qancebie, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 195.
qatranj, family: chess. See
atranj.
Queah game [the], (un-
named), family: yoté.
Sources: Murray 1952, 83.
Parlett 1999, 247.
quecho, family: (race).
Sources: Murray 1952, 147-
148.
quechucague, quechucayu.
See kechukawe.
queen’s game [the], family:
tables. See doublets.
queen’s guard [the],
queen’s guards. See agon.
quince, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Culin 1907, 153-
154. Murray 1952, 155.
a.k.a. intuvigai zuli gairagai,
kezute, romavoa.
quince, family: zohn ahl. See Sources: Bell 1979 [5], 127.
tugi’-e-pfe. Bell 1980, 51-52. Botermans
quinze tablas [las], family: 2008, 415-424. Parlett 1999,
tables. Sources: Murray 124-125. Pritchard 1982,
1952, 121-122. Parlett 1999, 140-144. Pritchard 2007, 72-
83. 73. Wágner & Virág 2001,
quirach, family: alquerque. 30-35. Walker 2014, 207-224.
See fetach. retour [jeu de], family: ta-
qvarn, family: merels. See bles. See grand trictrac.
nine men’s morris. reverquur, family: tables.
rabattuées, family: tables. See verquere.
Sources: Murray 1952, 121. reversi. Sources: Anon 1989,
Parlett 1999, 76. a.k.a. 222-225. Bell 1979 [4], 1:74.
dames avalées, dames rab- Bell 1979 [5], 28. Bell 1980,
batuées, tables avalées, tables 37. Bell 1988, 49. Boter-
rabbatuées. mans 2008, 527-540. Murray
rafaya, family: leopard game. 1952, 92. Parlett 1999, 178-
Sources: Murray 1952, 107. 180. Pritchard 1982, 145-
Parker 1909, 581. a.k.a. de- 150. Pritchard 2007, 38-39.
mala diviyan keliya, koti sel- Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
lama. 214-218. a.k.a. Othello.
räfspel, family: fox & geese. revertier, family: tables. See
See fox & geese. verquere.
rakado, family: halma. riga, family: alquerque. See
Sources: Parlett 1999, 124- alquerque.
135. riga di noue, family: merels.
ratti-chitti-bakri, family: See nine men’s morris.
alquerque. Sources: Bell riga di tre, family: merels.
1988, 37. Murray 1952, See three men’s morris.
68. a.k.a. dam-daman, rimau, rimau-rimau, fam-
dandaman, meurimüeng- ily: tiger game. Sources:
rimüeng peüet ploh. Botermans et al 1989, 154-
real, family: merels. See nine 155. Murray 1952, 108.
men’s morris. a.k.a. tiger.
recontrat, family: tables. rimau-rimau, family: tiger
Sources: Murray 1952, 128. game. Sources: Botermans
Parlett 1999, 77-78. a.k.a. et al 1989, 155. Murray 1952,
romanos recontrat [los]. 109-110.
ref-skak, family: fox & geese. rimoe, family: tiger game.
See fox & geese. Sources: Murray 1952, 109.
renard [le jeu de], fam- ringo. Sources: Bell 1979 [5],
ily: perugian game. Sources: 116-117. Bell 1980, 46-47.
Murray 1952, 106. Parlett rithmomachia, rithmo-
1999, 189-190. machy. Sources: Bell 1979
renard et les poules, family: [5], 136-137. Bell 1980, 68-
fox & geese. See fox & geese. 72. Bell & Cornelius 1988,
renette, family: tables. See 75-77. Botermans 2008,
doublets. 585-618. Murray 1952, 84-
renju, family: go moku. 87. Parlett 1999, 332-342.
28
Stigter 2007, 263-269. Strutt
1903, 254-255. a.k.a. ludus
philosophorum, philosophers’
game [the].
ritterspiel, family: fox &
geese. Sources: Parlett 1999,
191.
riz, family: merels. See nine
men’s morris.
romanos recontrat [los],
family: tables. See recontrat.
romavoa, family: zohn ahl.
See quince.
royal game of goose [the],
family: mehen. See goose
[the game of ].
royal game of Ur [the], fam-
ily: senet. Sources: Becker
2007, 11-15. Bell 1979 [4],
1:23-26. Bell 1979 [5], 82.
Bell 1980, 6. Bell 1988, 94-
95. Botermans et al 1989,
22-25. Botermans 2008, 711-
722. Finkel 2007, 16-32.
Grunfeld 1975, 57-58. Mur-
ray 1952, 19-21. Parlett
1999, 63-65.
Russian backgammon, fam-
ily: tables. See lange puff.
ruweisho, family: mancala.
See mweiso.
sacred way [the game of
the], family: senet. See
twenty squares [the game of ].
saddiqiya, family: mancala.
See togatog.
sadurangam, family: ashta-
pada. Sources: Botermans
et al 1989, 34. Murray 1952,
131. Parker 1909, 607-608.
Parlett 1999, 56. a.k.a. siga.
sáhkku, family: tablan.
Sources: Borvo 2001, 33-52.
Depaulis 2001, 77-82.
sai, family: mancala. Sources:
Murray 1952, 175.
saka, family: tables. Sources:
Culin 1895a, 501.
salta, family: halma. Sources:
 Bell 1979 [4], 2:58-59. Boter-
mans et al 1989, 109. Boter-
mans 2008, 33-44. Murray
1952, 52. Parlett 1999, 135.
sam k’i, family: merels.
Sources: Culin 1895b, 102.
Murray 1952, 47. a.k.a. chuk
sam, kontjil.
san-kuo-k’i, san-kuo-qi,
family: chess. Sources: Mur-
ray 1913, 133-134. Parlett
1999, 329. Pritchard 2007,
57. a.k.a. three kingdoms
[game of the].
san-nokunarabe, family:
merels. See nine holes.
santaraj, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
sat-gol, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 170.
satill, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Culin 1907, 87-88,
90-91. Murray 1952, 152.
a.k.a. setichch’, tsaydithi,
tsay-dithl, tze-chis’, zsetilth’.
satoel, family: alquerque.
Sources: Murray 1952, 70.
saturankam, family: ashta-
pada. Sources: Botermans
et al 1989, 35. Murray 1952,
130. Parker 1909, 605-607.
Parlett 1999, 56. a.k.a. siga.
Saxon hnefatafl, family:
hnefatafl. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:79-81. Bell 1988,
24. Botermans et al 1989,
119-120. Botermans 2008,
485-492. Parlett 1999, 202.
Walker 2013, 47-55. a.k.a.
alea evangelii, gospel game
[the].
sbaraglino, family: tables.
See baralie.
sbaraglio, family: tables. See
barail.
schaap en wolf, family: fox
& geese. See fox & geese.
schafzagel, family: merels.
See nine men’s morris.
schuster, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 126.
Parlett 1999, 86.
seega, family: latrunculi.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:82-
84. Bell 1979 [5], 80-81. Bell
1988, 23. Murray 1952, 54-
55. Botermans et al 1989,
122-123. Lane 1836, 58-
60. Love 1979, 8. Parker
1909, 603-604. Parlett 1999,
238. Pritchard 2007, 12.
Provenzo & Provenzo 1990,
161-166. a.k.a. bub, kharbga,
Man in the Moon, shantarad,
siga, sija, syredgé, ufuba wa
haluna.
seega. Sources: Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 11.
semplice mulinello, family:
merels. See three men’s mor-
ris.
sen’t, senat, family: senet.
See senet.
senat, family: latrunculi.
Sources: Falkener 1892, 63-
82, 358-359.
senet, family: senet. Sources:
Bell 1979 [4], 1:26-29. Bell
1979 [5], 82-83. Bell 1980,
6-7. Bell 1988, 16-17. Bell
& Cornelius 1988, 55-56.
Botermans et al 1989, 16-
18. Botermans 2008, 163-
172. Grunfeld 1975, 53-
55. Falkener 1892, 16, 101.
Kendall 1978. Murray 1952,
13, 17. Parlett 1999, 66-68.
Piccione 2007, 54-63. a.k.a.
sen’t, senat, thirty squares
[the game of ]
serup, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Murray 1952, 155.
set dilth’, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Culin 1907, 88-89.
Murray 1952, 152.
setichch’, family: zohn ahl.
See satill.
seven leopards [the], fam-
29
ily: leopard game. See hat
diviyan keliya.
seys, dos e as [el], family: ta-
bles. Sources: Murray 1952,
123. Parlett 1999, 79. a.k.a.
six deuce ace.
sgjoug, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
shah, family: merels. Sources:
Parlett 1999, 120.
shah, family: merels. Sources:
Murray 1952, 48.
shantarad, family: latrun-
culi. See seega.
shanzdahu-kattaru, fam-
ily: alquerque. See mogol
putt’han.
shap luk kon tsu tseung
kwan, family: tiger game.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:48-
49. Bell 1979 [5], 66-67. Bell
1988, 26. Botermans et al
1989, 148-149. Culin 1896,
874-875. Murray 1952, 100-
101. Parlett 1999, 192-193.
Sheppard & Wilkinson 2000,
26. a.k.a. shi liu kan tsiang
kün, sixteen soldiers.
sharaione, family: tables.
See barail.
shashki, family: draughts.
Sources: Botermans 2008,
569. Murray 1952, 79-80.
Parlett 1999, 262. a.k.a.
dama, dame, damki.
shatranj, family: chess.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:57-
61. Bell 1988, 29. Fiske
1905, 1-9. Forbes 1860, 46-
134. Murray 1913, 220-338,
&c. Parlett 1999, 296-299.
a.k.a. chess, Islamic chess.
shatranj al-husun, family:
chess. See citadel chess.
shatranj al-kabir, family:
chess. See Tamerlane’s
chess.
shatranj al-kammat, family:
chess. Sources: Forbes 1860,
 135.
shatranj as-sa‘idiya [ash-],
shatranj as-su‘diya [ash-],
family: chess. Sources: Mur-
ray 1913, 342.
shatranj kabir, family:
chess. Sources: Murray
1913, 347. a.k.a. great chess.
shatranj kamil, family:
chess. See Tamerlane’s
chess.
shatranj shir bakri, fam-
ily: perugian game. Sources:
Murray 1952, 106. a.k.a.
lion and goats chess.
shatranji mamduda, family:
chess. Sources: Forbes 1860,
138. a.k.a. tawila.
shatranji mudauwira, fam-
ily: chess. See circular chess.
shaturanga, family: chess.
See chaturaji.
shayo, family: mancala. See
ayoayo.
sher-bakar, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
shields. See dogs & jackals.
shi liu kan tsiang kün, fam-
ily: tiger game. See shap luk
kon tsu tseung kwan.
shimunana, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 211-
212. a.k.a. tshuba.
shing kun t’o, family: pro-
motion game. Sources: Bell
& Cornelius 1988, 65-67.
Culin 1889, 18-21. Culin
1895a, 504-507. Culin 1896,
820. Murray 1952, 144-146.
Parlett 1999, 94. a.k.a. man-
darin promotion [the game
of ].
shing kun t’o, family: pro-
motion game. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 146.
shiva, family: dara. See dara.
sho-gi, sho-ngi, sho-shogi,
shogi, family: chess.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
2:33-38. Bell 1980, 27-
29. Botermans et al 1989,
137-139. Botermans 2008,
107-140.Culin 1896, 867-
868. Falkener 1892, 156-176.
Grunfeld 1975, 77-83. Mur-
ray 1913, 138-146. Parlett
1999, 291-294. Pritchard
1982, 155-164. Pritchard
2007, 58. a.k.a. Japanese
chess.
sho’liwe, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Culin 1907, 213-
219. Murray 1952, 154.
a.k.a. cane arrows.
shwan-liu, family: tables.
See sugoroku.
si-perde, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
Siamese chess, family: chess.
See makruk.
siang k’i, family: chess. See
xiangqi.
sice-ace, family: tables. See
sixe-ace.
sidere, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
Siege of Paris. Sources: Bell
1979 [5], 98-101. Bell 1988,
43-44, 88-89. Love 1978, 44-
45.
siga, family: ashtapada.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 56.
siga, family: alquerque.
Sources: Murray 1952, 82.
siga, family: tablan. Sources:
Murray 1952, 96-97.
siga, family: alquerque. See
high jump.
siga, family: ashtapada. See
sadurangam.
siga, family: ashtapada. See
saturankam.
siga, sija, family: latrunculi.
See seega.
sija el taba, sijat el taba,
family: tablan. Sources:
Murray 1952, 96.
30
sipchi kat, family: alquerque.
See dam pusri.
sitta, family: tablan. See tâb.
sitih, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Murray 1952, 152.
sittuyin, family: chess.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:28-
30. Bell 1980, 24-26. Culin
1896, 859-860. Falkener
1892, 178-190. Forbes 1860,
258-262. Murray 1913, 109-
113. Parlett 1999, 294-295.
a.k.a. Burmese chess, chit-
thareen.
sixe-ace, family: tables.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:39-
41. Strutt 1903, 248. a.k.a.
sice-ace.
six deuce ace, family: tables.
See seys, dos e as [el].
six men’s morris, family:
merels. Sources: Anon 1989,
248. Bell 1979 [4], 1:92.
Bell & Cornelius 1988, 7-
8. Botermans et al 1989,
104. Botermans 2008, 59.
Murray 1952, 42-43. Parlett
1999, 117-118. Provenzo &
Provenzo 1990, 34-35. Za-
slavsky 2003, 16-17. a.k.a.
achi, akidada, ati, mérelles à
six tables, smerelli.
sixpenny madell, family:
merels. Sources: Murray
1952, 43. Parlett 1999, 117-
118.
sixteen soldiers, family:
tiger game. See juroku
musashi.
sixteen soldiers, family: al-
querque. See mogol putt’han.
sixteen soldiers, family:
tiger game. See shap luk
kon tsu tseung kwan.
sixteen soldiers [the], fam-
ily: alquerque. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:51. Bell 1979
[5], 64-65. Bell & Cornelius
1988, 41-42.
sleeping tigers, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 112.
smaller merels [the], family:
merels. See three men’s mor-
ris.
smerelli, family: merels. See
five men’s morris.
smerelli, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
smerelli, family: merels. See
six men’s morris.
smerelli, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
smugglers & customs offi-
cers, family: halma. See In-
dians & trappers.
snail, family: mehen.
Sources: Bell 1979 [5], 122-
123. Bell 1988, 22.
snake, family: mehen.
Sources: Culin 1896, 842.
Murray 1952, 143.
snake game [the], family:
mehen. See mehen.
snakes & ladders, family:
(race). Sources: Bell 1979
[5], 134-135. Bell 1988, 14-
15. Bell & Cornelius 1988,
6465. Botermans 2008, 19-
32. Love 1978, 22-23, 90-91.
Murray 1952, 143. Parlett
1999, 91-94. Pritchard 2007,
162. Provenzo & Provenzo
1990, 52-60.
sokkatan, family: pachisi.
Sources: Murray 1952, 135.
a.k.a. pachis.
solah-guttiya, family: al-
querque. See mogol putt’han.
soldiers’ eight-way hunt
[the], family: tiger game.
See yasasukari musashi.
solitario, family: tiger game.
Sources: Culin 1896, 876.
Murray 1952, 100.
sonaru, family: pachisi. See
asi keliya.
songo, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 185.
Spanish draughts, family:
draughts. Sources: Murray
1952, 78-79. Parlett 1999,
258-260. a.k.a. damas.
spies. See conspirators [the].
spoil five, family: go moku.
See go moku.
spreta, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 210-
211.
srand, family: alquerque. See
zamma.
srid-pai khorio, family: pro-
motion game. Sources: Par-
lett 1999, 94. a.k.a. circle of
life.
srid-pai khorio, family: pro-
motion game. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 147.
ssang-ryouk, family: tables.
Sources: Culin 1895a, 499-
500. Culin 1895b, 79-80.
Culin 1896, 849-851.
ssang-ryouk, family: tables.
See sugoroku.
star halma, family: halma.
See Chinese checkers.
stern-halma, family: halma.
See Chinese checkers.
stone warriors [game of
the]. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
1:48-49.
sua ghin gnua. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 2:42-43. Culin 1896,
876. a.k.a. lay gwet kyah.
sua tok tong, family: horse-
shoe. See pong hau k’i.
sugoroku, family: tables.
Sources: Bell 1979 [5], 92-
93. Culin 1889, 15-17.
Culin 1895a, 502-504. Culin
1896, 841. Murray 1952,
115. a.k.a. shwan-liu, ssang-
ryouk, sunoroku.
sugoroku. Sources: For-
manek & Linhart 2002, 39-
64.
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sujjua, family: merels.
Sources: Murray 1952, 47.
sullusie, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 195.
sunka, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1988, 55, 110-
111.
sunoroku, family: tables. See
sugoroku.
Surakarta. Sources: Bell
1979 [5], 96-97. Bell 1980,
32-33. Parlett 1999, 249-250.
Pritchard 2007, 35.
sute, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 213.
svensk brädspel, family: ta-
bles. See verquere.
syredgé, family: latrunculi.
See seega.
sz’kwa, family: go. Bell &
Cornelius 1988, 14-15.
t’shu-p’u, family: pachisi.
Sources: Botermans et al
1989, 35-37.
tâb, tâb al-qasab, tâb
wa dukk, family: tablan.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:49-
51. Culin 1896, 805-807.
Lane 1836, 2:55-58. Murray
1952, 95-96. Parlett 1999,
227-229. Walker 2014, 65-76.
a.k.a. bazi qamdish, qamish
uyuni, sitta.
tabal, family: tables. Sources:
Culin 1895a, 502. Culin
1896, 849.
tablan, family: tablan.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:87-
89. Bell 1979 [5], 58-59.
Bell 1980, 61-63. Bell 1988,
26-27. Parlett 1999, 133,
229-230.
tablas reales, family: tables.
See backgammon.
tables avalées, family: ta-
bles. See rabbatuées.
tables rabbatuées, family:
tables. See rabbatuées.
tablut, family: hnefatafl.
 Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:77-
79. Bell 1979 [5], 34-35. Bell
1980, 41-42. Bell & Cor-
nelius 1988, 44-45. Boter-
mans et al 1989, 121. Lin-
naeus 1811, 2:55-58. Murray
1913, 445-446. Murray 1952,
63-64. Parlett 1999, 203-
204. Pritchard 1982, 176-
180. Walker 2013, 11-22.
Walker 2014, 165-188.
tabula, family: tables.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:34-
37. Bell 1980, 8-10. Bell
& Cornelius 1988, 56-57.
Botermans et al 1989, 29-
31. Botermans 2008, 557-
568. Fiske 1905, 69. Murray
1952, 31-33. Parlett 1999,
72. a.k.a. alea.
tæfl, tafl, family: hnefatafl.
See hnefatafl.
take me, family: chess. See
losing chess.
Tamerlane’s chess, family:
chess. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:61. Falkener 1892, 197-
216. Forbes 1860, 138-154.
Murray 1913, 344-346. Par-
lett 1999, 313. a.k.a. great
chess, shatranj al-kabir, sha-
tranj kamil.
tamilnadi, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1988, 56-57.
tammam, family: ashtapada.
Sources: Murray 1952, 131.
Parlett 1999, 56.
tams, family: draughts.
Sources: Bell 1988, 39.
tananako. Sources: Depaulis
1998, 34.
tant fant, family: merels.
Sources: Murray 1952, 42.
a.k.a. epelle.
tapatan, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
taptana, family: tiger game.
See komina.
tasholiwe, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Botermans et al
1989, 160. Murray 1952, 152.
a.k.a. wooden canes.
tatsungin. Sources: Parlett
1999, 37-38.
tau, family: latrunculi. See
ludus latrunculorum.
tau, family: senet. See twenty
squares [the game of ].
tavli, family: tables. See
plakoto.
tavola, tavola di molino,
family: merels. See nine
men’s morris.
tavole reale, family: tables.
See backgammon.
tavole reale, family: tables.
See todas tablas.
tavoletta, family: merels. See
three men’s morris.
tawfa, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Culin 1907, 208.
Murray 1952, 152-153.
tawila, family: chess. See sha-
tranji mamduda.
tawlbwrdd, family: hne-
fatafl. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 2:43-45. Forbes 1860,
appendix xlvii-liii. Murray
1952, 62-63. Parlett 1999,
202. Walker 2013, 23-29.
a.k.a. dalwbrdd.
tawula, family: tables. See
Turkish backgammon.
tayam sonalu, family:
pachisi. Sources: Murray
1952, 134-135. Parker 1909,
617-619.
terhüchü, family: alquerque.
Sources: Murray 1952, 66.
terhüchü, family: alquerque.
Sources: Murray 1952, 68.
testa, family: tables. See
ludus anglicorum.
thaayam, family: ashtapada.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 1:17-
20. Botermans 2008, 723-
732. Parlett 1999, 55-56.
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Thai chess, family: chess.
See makruk.
thirty squares [the game
of ], family: senet. See senet.
three in a row, family:
merels. See line of three.
three kingdoms [game of
the], family: chess. See san-
kuo-qi.
three men’s morris, fam-
ily: merels. Sources: Anon
1989, 248. Bell 1979 [4],
1:91-92. Bell 1979 [5], 145.
Bell & Cornelius 1988, 6-
7. Botermans et al 1989,
35, 103. Botermans 2008,
58. Culin 1907, 797-798.
Fiske 1905, 97. Murray
1952, 40-42. Parlett 1999,
116-117. Pritchard 2007,
29. Provenzo & Provenzo
1990, 34-36. a.k.a. al-
querque de tres, ath-thalatha,
bidaria, carabawg, carré chi-
nois, cashlan gherra, castro,
dris, fanorona telo, filetto,
filo, hujura, luk tsut k’i,
marelles, marro, mérelles,
mulino, nerenchi, pedreria,
pitarilla, riga di tre, santaraj,
semplice mulinello, smaller
merels [the], smerelli, tap-
atan, tavoletta, tic-tac-toe,
tin-guti pait pait, tres en
raya, yih.
ti, family: mancala. Sources:
Murray 1952, 184.
tiau-qi, family: halma. See
Chinese checkers.
tic-tac-toe, family: merels.
See achi.
tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe,
family: merels. See noughts
& crosses.
tic-tac-toe, family: merels.
See three men’s morris.
ticcha, family: alquerque. See
mogol putt’han.
tick-tack, family: tables.
 Sources: Strutt 1903, 248.
tieste, family: tables. See
ludus anglicorum.
tiger, tiger game [the], fam-
ily: leopard game. See puli-
judam.
tiger, family: tiger game. See
rimau.
tiger, tigers, family: tiger
game. Sources: Bell 1979 [5],
65. Parlett 1999, 194-195.
tigers, family: tiger game.
See mamatyang-matyang.
tigers & men, family: tiger
game. Sources: Murray
1952, 111.
tik tak tol, family: merels.
See noughts & crosses.
til guti, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 169.
tin-guti pait pait, family:
merels. See three men’s mor-
ris.
tip-tap-toe, family: merels.
See noughts & crosses.
tit-tat-toe, family: merels.
See noughts & crosses.
tjoeki. See chuki.
tjyang keui, family: chess.
See changgi.
tjyong-kyeng-to, family:
promotion game. Sources:
Culin 1895b, 77-78. Culin
1896, 820-822. Murray 1952,
146. Parlett 1999, 94. a.k.a.
dignitaries [game of ].
tjyong-kyeng-to, family:
promotion game. Sources:
Murray 1952, 146. a.k.a.
Buddhist promotion game.
tobi-shogi. Sources: Murray
1913, 147. Murray 1952, 82.
Parlett 1999, 247.
tobi-sugoroku, family: pro-
motion game. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 146. a.k.a. jump-
ing sugoroku.
toc, family: tables. Sources:
Murray 1952, 126. Parlett
1999, 86.
toccateglio, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 126.
Parlett 1999, 86. a.k.a.
tokkadille.
todas tablas, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 122.
Parlett 1999, 83. Strutt
1903, 248. a.k.a. Irish, tav-
ole reale, toutes tables.
tods & lambs, family: fox &
geese. See fox & geese.
togatog, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 195
a.k.a. saddiqiya.
tokkadille, family: tables.
See toccateglio.
totolospi, family: (race).
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:5.
Botermans et al 1989, 159.
Murray 1952, 149-150. Par-
lett 1999, 38.
totolospi, family: (war).
Sources: Culin 1896, 879-
880. Culin 1907, 794f, 795-
796. Murray 1952, 64-65.
Bell 1979 [4], 2:53-54.
totolospi, family: (race).
Sources: Botermans 1989,
159. Murray 1952, 150-151.
totolospi, family: (war).
Culin 1907, 797.
tourne cas, tourne case,
family: tables. Sources: As-
trop 1980, 3. Bell 1979 [4],
1:38-39. Murray 1952, 121.
Parlett 1999, 86.
toutes tables, family: tables.
See todas tablas.
Transvaal, family: fox &
geese. See asalto.
tre-guti, family: merels. See
nine holes.
treble fox & geese, family:
fox & geese. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 104.
trebles, family: dara.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 124.
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tres en raya, family: merels.
See three men’s morris.
tria, family: merels. See nine
men’s morris.
trictrac, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 125-
126. Parlett 1999, 86. a.k.a.
grand trictrac.
trictrac, family: tables. See
petit trictrac.
triodi, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
trip trap trul, family:
merels. See nine holes.
tripp trapp trull, family:
merels. See noughts &
crosses.
trique, family: merels. See
nine men’s morris.
tsaydithi, tsaydithl, family:
zohn ahl. See satill.
tséung-k’, family: chess. See
xiang qi.
tshuba, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 212-
213.
tshuba, family: mancala. See
shimunana.
tsidil, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Murray 1952, 152.
a.k.a. tsaydithl.
tsikehi, family: (race).
Sources: Murray 1952, 149.
a.k.a. hurdle.
tsindil, family: zohn ahl. See
tsidil.
tsonä, family: mancala. See
ne’baku’thana.
tsoro, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 212.
tsoro yematatu, family:
merels. Sources: Zaslavsky
2003, 27.
tsotra, family: mancala. See
katra.
tsun k’i. See coan ki.
tugea, family: zohn ahl. See
patol.
tugi’-e-pfe, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Murray 1952, 153.
a.k.a. quince.
tuknanavuhpi, family: al-
querque. Sources: Culin
1907, 794-795. Murray 1952,
67.
Turkish backgammon, fam-
ily: tables. Sources: Culin
1896, 849. Falkener 1892,
255-256. Murray 1952, 116-
117. a.k.a. tawula.
Turkish chess, family: chess.
Sources: Falkener 1892, 196-
197.
Turkish draughts, family:
draughts. Sources: Bell
1979 [4], 1:73-74, ii. 41.
Bell 1979 [5], 28. Falkener
1892, 237-238. Murray
1952, 82. Parlett 1999,
263-254. Pritchard 2007,
34. a.k.a. atlanbaj, dama,
Graeco-Turkish draughts.
twelve men’s morris, fam-
ily: merels. Sources: Bell
1979 [5], 144. Botermans
et al 1989, 106-107. Par-
lett 1999, 119-120. Pritchard
2007, 29. Zaslavsky 2003, 22.
twenty [the game of ],
twenty squares [the game
of ], family: senet. Sources:
Bell 1979 [5], 82. Bell 1988,
15-16. Bell & Cornelius
1988, 54-55. Falkener 1892,
15, 91-100, 360-361. Murray
1952, 16, 17-18, 23. Parlett
1999, 65-66. Pusch 2007, 69-
86. a.k.a. sacred way [the
game of the], tau.
twenty-six rebels, family:
tiger game. See yeung luk
sz’kon tseung kwan.
tze-chis’, family: zohn ahl.
See satill.
ufuba wa haluna, family: la-
trunculi. See seega.
um el-bagara, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
194. Zaslavsky 2003, 37-38.
a.k.a. mangala.
um el banat, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
196-197.
um el tuweisat, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
194. Zaslavsky 2003, 35-36.
a.k.a. mangala.
unlearned [game of the],
family: mancala. See li‘b al-
ghashim.
uno-alti-tashu, family: al-
querque. See mogol putt’han.
uruheisho uruheso, family:
mancala. See ikibuguzo.
uthi, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 199.
uugg, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 195.
vai lung thlan, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
169.
vamana guntalu, family:
mancala. See chenne mane
ata.
vargen och fären, family:
perugian game. See fox &
geese.
verkeer, family: tables. See
verquere.
verkehren, family: tables.
See verquere.
verkehren utan junker,
family: tables. Sources:
Murray 1952, 128.
verkehrtes damenspiel
[das], family: draughts. See
losing draughts.
verquere, family: tables.
Sources: Murray 1952, 127.
Parlett 1999, 78-79. Strutt
1903, 249. a.k.a. forko-
ering, kotra, reverquur, re-
vertier, svensk brädspel, ver-
keer, verkehren.
volki ovtsy, family: fox &
geese. See fox & geese.
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vultures & crows, family:
pentagram. See kaooa.
wa-wee, family: mancala.
Sources: Culin 1894, 605.
wagu thinhamma, family:
alquerque. Sources: de
Voogt 2009, 36-39.
walak-pussa, family: man-
cala. Sources: Murray 1952,
172-173. Parker 1909, 597-
598.
walu, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 183.
wakanpamugthae, family:
draughts. See draughts.
warcaby, family: draughts.
See dam.
wari, family: mancala.
Sources: Anon 1989, 226-
228. Bell 1979 [4], 1:116-
121. Bell 1988, 61. Bell
& Cornelius 1988, 28-29.
Botermans et al 1989, 174-
175. Botermans 2008, 351-
364. Grunfeld 1975, 20-24.
Loader & Loader 1993, 143-
145. Murray 1952, 181-
182, 185. Parker 1909,
600-601. Parlett 1999,
209-210. Pritchard 1982,
113-117. Pritchard 2007,
18. Provenzo & Provenzo
1990, 115-118. Sheppard &
Wilkinson 2000, 6. Walker
2014, 111-126. a.k.a. aghi,
awèlé, ayo, ayoayo, kale,
woro.
wari, family: dara. Sources:
Murray 1952, 49. Parlett
1999, 123.
wari, family: mancala. See
warre.
warre, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 184.
a.k.a. wari.
wash’kasi, family: zohn ahl.
Sources: Culin 1907, 123-
124. Murray 1952, 155.
wasokuts, family: zohn ahl.
 See owasokotz.
wayrusitha. See pisca.
wei-ch’i, wei-qi. See go.
whyo, family: mancala.
Sources: Bell 1979 [4], 2:77
f. Murray 1952, 186.
wolo, family: mancala. See
aware.
wooden canes, family: zohn
ahl. See tasholiwe.
wora, family: mancala. See
aware.
woro, family: mancala.
Sources: Murray 1952, 182.
woro, family: mancala. See
wari.
xiang qi, xiangqi, family:
chess. Sources: Bell 1979 [4],
1:66-68. Bell 1979 [5], 24-25.
Bell 1980, 26-27. Bell 1988,
33-34. Botermans 2008,
211-234. Culin 1896, 863-
866. Falkener 1892, 143-155.
Forbes 1860, 275-283. Grun-
feld 1975, 71-76. Murray
1913, 121-134. Parlett 1999,
288-290. Pritchard 1982,
188-196. Pritchard 2007, 52-
57. Walker 2014, 141-164.
a.k.a. Chinese chess, choo-
hong-ki, siang k’i, tséung-k’.
xuki. See chuki.
yakamaido, family: merels.
See nine men’s morris.
yasasukari musashi, family:
tiger game. Sources: Mur-
ray 1952, 99-100. Culin
1895b, 77. a.k.a. juroku
musashi, soldiers’ eight-way
hunt [the].
yeung luk sz’kon tseung
kwan, family: tiger game.
Sources: Botermans et al
1989, 150. Culin 1896, 875.
Murray 1952, 101. Par-
lett 1999, 193. Provenzo
& Provenzo 1990, 179-182.
a.k.a. Chinese rebel game,
twenty-six rebels.
yih, family: merels. See three
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men’s morris.
yoté, family: yoté. Sources:
Bell 1988, 41. Grunfeld 1975,
91. Sheppard & Wilkinson
2000, 32.
yut. See nyout.
zamma, family: alquerque.
Sources: Bell 1979 [5], 148-
149. Botermans et al 1989,
118. Murray 1952, 69. Par-
lett 1999, 246. a.k.a. srand.
zamma, family: alquerque.
See alquerque.
zirge, family: merels.
Sources: Parlett 1999, 112.
zohn ahl. Sources: Bell 1979
[4], 1:4-5. Bell 1979 [5],
36-37. Bell 1988, 154-155.
Culin 1896, 687-805. Culin
1907, 124-127. Murray 1952,
154-155. Parlett 1999, 38-40.
a.k.a. ahl game [the].
zsetilth’, family: zohn ahl.
See satill.