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Friday, August 1, 2008

Useful Resources and Links for "Board Games"

These site links and useful resources would be a great help for the people who love to play "board games" as well as for the beginners who want to search and select board games for their pastimes. These all sites offer FREE information, histroy, rules, and more site links for board game hobbyists.

*** "Games Info Depot" offers you information about board games of all shapes and sizes in this section of the Games Information Depot site. It provides more information about some of the board games like history, rules and strategy.

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*** Love to know provides with a vast array of information on board games. The information are in these catagories: "Family games, Educational Board games, Strategy Board games. You would get wealth of information at this site.

*** Board games: history and useful information at "tradgames.org.uk"

*** "Board games studies" is dedicated to research on board games and the history and development of board games around the world. Some of the research is very general and examines board games as a part of play and learning in different cultures. Other studies relate to specific board games and their evolution; such games include backgammon, mancala (wari, oware, awele, et. al.), Halma (Chinese Checkers), the game of India (Parchesi, Ludo, et. al.), checkers, chess, and others.

Site link: Board games studies

*** "Board Game Geek" is a website dedicated to the subject of physical board games. The site provides an extensive database of boardgames as well as an active community of users who discuss, argue, buy, sell, trade and play board games. The database contains over 30,000 board games and each game has its own Game entry which gives information about a game, user ratings, forums for discussion and a great deal more.

The Forums are a good place to explore to involve yourself in the community.

Site link: "Guide to Board Game Geek"

*** Dmoz directory offers board games site in these catagories: (Number shows the site count for that catagory)

Abstract (1,261), Animals and Evolution (11), Auction (7), Bluffing and Betting (10), Citybuilding (4), Economy and Trading (84), Educational (13), Exploration and Travel (15), Fantasy (78), Historical (80), Horror (63), Murder-Mystery and Deduction (26), Racing (48), Railroad Games (32), Science Fiction (153), Sports (51), War and Politics (239), Words and Trivia (160).

You can also get computer board games, video games, reviews and previews and shopping sites at the same page. I suggest you to search for each catagory which appeals you, because each page would show you a lot of sites and description of it, which would tell you a little about the site. You can select the sites with tips and information.

Link: Board games
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2 comments:

  1. www.Discovergames.com is also a very useful site for new boardgame inventors.

    Mary

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  2. Thanks Mary for your interest and link!

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