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The ABC of Contract Bridge by Ben Cohen, Rhoda Lederer - minute area of wear to upper right cover corner. overall very clean and good- immediate availability...

Bridge For beginners by Victor Mollo andamp; Nico Gardener - Pan paperback 1967; 188 pages of instruction ; black and white diagrams. Conditon: paper tanned- cover edges slightly worn; overall clean and good...

All About Acol (Collins winning bridge) by Ben Cohen, Rhoda Lederer - Collins Willow paperback, 1995: 304 pages. Condition: six line ink annotation to front endpaper: overall clean and good ...

Winning Double by Victor Mollo - Faber and Faber 1968: hardcover in dust jacket: 162 pages. Synopsis: A textbook ranging over the whole field of dummy play and a quiz book combined. Problems 1-50 are slightly easier: problems 51 to 150 award marks for correct answers: allowing the reader to measure his progress. 10 additional quizzes bring the reader to a selection of hands from actual play. Condition very clean and good overall ...

Bridge Case for the Defense by Victor Mollo - Faber and Faber 1972 reprint: hardcover in dust jacket: 311 pages. Synopsis : analysis and advice for the Bridge player on the art of defence: defined as possibly the most difficult part of the game. 150 quizzes, carefully selected to improve play,( answers included ) . Condition : dustjacket slightly tired: overall very clean and good. ...

Introduction to Defender\'s Play by Kantar Edwin B. - Fredrick Muller 1971: hardcover in dust jacket: 154 pages including index. Synopsis: the companion volume to "Introduction to Defenders Play " covering leads, defensive signals, holding up, throwing off, and all the necessary plays to defeat the contract. Condition : dust cover tired and repaired: Price corner removed: annotations and underlinings throughout: overall acceptable ...

Introduction to Declarer's Play by Kantar Edwin B. - Frederick Muller, 1971: hardcover in dust jacket: 148 pages including index. Synopsis: an introductory guide to contract bridge describing every aspect of declarer's play of hand : with all effective steps necessary to make the bid contract, including trumping, end plays, squeezes, finesses and cross roughing. Condition dust cover worn and repaired: Price corner removed: some annotation and underlining to text and endpaper. Overall acceptable. ...

Wild Card Poker by Hugh Zachary - Stephen Green Press 1975: first edition: red cloth hardcover with black lettering to spine: no dust jacket 118 pages including index. Synopsis : Assessment of and comprehensive guide to wild-card poker. Contents include chapters on- Basic rules; Wild games based on five card stud; Wild games based on draw poker; Wild games based on seven card stud, Blockbusters; Odd games without wild cards; Four new wild card games; Best wild card games in brief. Condition: front hardcover slightly stained: small brown mark to upper edge pages 83-88 : overall clean and good. ...

The ABC of Contract Bridge by Ben Cohen, Rhoda Lederer - 270 pages ; minute area of wear to upper right cover corner; overall very clean and good- ...

OSW Official Scrabble Words by Darryl Francis, Philip Nelkon, Allan Simmons - SLIGHT CREASING TO LOWER FRONT CORNER - OVERALL VERY CLEAN AND GOOD ...

All About Acol by Cohen, Ben - Synopsis: Including all the latest information about bidding, combined with a simple explanation of the fundamental principles of the system, this book will enable any reader to sit down and successfully play contract bridge.Comments: pristine - as new- immediate availability . Format: Paperback. Pages: 272. ...

Bridge With Eddie -the acol way by Eddie Scott - Eddie Scott, Suffolk. Ring bound 66 page paperback - instructions on playing Bridge "For beginners and improvers" Cover ridged and somewhat worn. overall clean and good ...

Go Proverbs Illustrated by Segoe Kensaku - Hardcover - 262 pages Japan Pubns. Inc 1960. Condition: half title page unevenly cut: very clean and good overall: immediate availability ...

The Guinness Encyclopedia of Games, Puzzles and Pastimes by No Author - Comments: hardback cn2452-256 pages very clean and good/as new. immediate dispatch. ...

Tales From the Trench - As long as we're all back here together, let's catch up on some of what makes our campaigns so great; those moments that can never be forgotten as long as we game. Recent is what I'm looking for? not pining for the days of our campaigns years ago. read more...

The End of my Tabletop Era - Today, I boxed up all my RPGs. They're still in plain sight, they're still loved and memories cherished, but the boxing, for me, means the end of my involvement with tabletop gaming. This has literally been a long-time coming: when I first started Gamegrene back in 2000, my orbit was already slowly decaying, and I hoped that dedicating a site to my love would keep things going. read more...

An Interview with Jay Little - Why a 3rd edition to WFRP? Why now? "Based on recent trends in the roleplaying market and numerous discussions between Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games, we determined the time was right to develop and introduce a new edition, attracting more fans to the Warhammer Fantasy setting made popular by Game Workshop's tabletop miniatures game." Read all about it in this interview with Jay Little, lead designer on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edi...

WOTC Annual Layoff Extravaganza - No surprise to anyone by now: Wizards of the Coast has started another round of Christmas layoffs. This year, so far, Rob Heinsoo (D&D 4e Lead Designer), Logan Bonner (Adventurer's Vault), Chris Sims (4e Monster Manual and Dungeon Master's Guide) and Stephen Radney-McFarland have been cut. read more...

How Do You Like Your Games Served? - For those of you who are gamers, you realize that there are some groups you prefer gaming with and some you don't. The same is true for MMORPG's (or any large, persistent world) - we find a group with similar goals to hang out with (or adventure with or whatever). And the same is also true of gaming groups whose focus is board games. read more...

A Penny For My Thoughts: An Interview with Paul Tevis - Two women and a man, all dressed in white jumpsuits, sit around a table with a bowl of pennies in its center. Each of them has a small stack of pennies and a printed form. In front of the older woman sits a scrap of paper with the words "a taffy stretching machine" written on it. " and my father looked down at me and said, 'If you don't want to ride the roller coaster, you don't have to. You can wait here in the candy shop while your brother and...

2009 ENnie Award Nominees Announced - The nominees for the 2009 ENnie Awards were announced today; HELLAS: Worlds of Sun & Stone (my game) was nominated twice. Voting begins on July 24 and runs through August 1. Winners will be announced at the 9th Annual ENnie Awards at GenCon on Friday, August 14. Be sure to vote for your favorites! read more...

Evil GM Trick #28: Sure You Can Have That +12 Hackmaster - If there's one immutable law all GMs know, it?s that players love loot. Wizards love that uber wand of disintegration. Fighters want the +12 hackmaster. Street samurai want that move by wire 4. How do you give them what they want without losing game balance? Simple. Present it like an Evil GM. read more...

Vox: Synchronicity, Too - On June 24, 2009 in Columbus, OH, aethereal FORGE will present the official release of the Vox RPG. This is an admittedly small affair in the grander scheme of things, but for me it represents the culmination of nearly three years of effort. Whether or not you are ultimately interested in Vox itself, the process by which Vox was created is -- at least in my opinion -- an interesting one, and filled with interesting coincidences and synchronicitie...

Asymmetry in Roleplay - Part 3 - Encounters - Recent versions of D&D have sought to promote the idea that parties of characters should be presented with a formulaic series of encounters with challenge ratings that are balanced according to their level, plus or minus a little. Here I would like to discuss the value of asymmetric encounters, in which the party are faced with a challenge that is trivially easy for them, or else so difficult they have little or no hope of success. read more...