[Toraerie] period games

[pete6486 at umn.edu]

If I had to pick, I would say strategy-reliant games (cards and board 
games, maybe?) But I would have fun doing any of them. Is it possible that 
we'll get a paper overview of the ones we don't cover? Or some websites 
that might describe them?

Kerry Thekla


> Basically I split period games up into three rough categories: dice 
> games, board games and card games.
>   
>  Board games would include games such as the Tafl games, Alquerque, 
> Morris Games, Rithromachy, etc. Games that are generally reliant on 
> strategy to some extent and tend towards one on one conflicts.
>   
>  Dice games would include games such as Hazards, Tablero, Gluckshaus, 
> Goose, etc. These games tend towards more players and generally require 
> less strategy and more luck of the dice.
>   
>  Card games would include Alouette, Lansquenet, One and Thirty, Noddy, 
> etc. Many of these have a fixed number of players (2 or 3 or 4, etc) and 
> vary between pure chance and some measure of strategy.
>   
>  In a two hour span I can give a decent overview of games from 2 of the 
> 3 groups. Which would folks prefer?
>   
>  Padruig