Dive into the vast universe of Warhammer 40,000 and explore miniatures from every faction, captured in all their glory through official photography. Follow key characters throughout the evolution of their models and experience in pinpoint detail the warriors who wage endless war across the ravaged galaxy of the 41st Millennium.

Explore the Warhammer 40,000 universe and its factions in striking detail:

• The first book of its kind, this Ultimate Guide goes into unparalleled detail on the miniatures and lore of Warhammer 40,000 and is sure to delight long-time fans and newcomers alike.
• Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of beautifully shot photographs of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures that showcase fine details and intricate designs across each faction, from the mighty Space Marines to the ravenous Tyranids, foul Chaos Daemons, deathless Necrons - and more.
• Written by Guy Haley and Gav Thorpe - these prolific Black Library authors who are household names of Warhammer fandom walk you through this world with richly detailed descriptions and insights into the lore.

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The Forgotten Realms are dangerous. Well, actually, that's an understatement. The Forgotten Realms are a death trap...

But they're also very exciting, packed with amazing sights, captivating characters and fun locations to explore. And that's where this book comes in. From the point of view of Falgriss, a newly invented character from D&D's lore, this book will answer your burning questions in chapters covering deadly fauna, magical mishaps, urban perils, merciless monsters, and much more.

Survive your early Dungeons & Dragons adventures with this informative and entertaining travel guide:

• An introduction for new Dungeons & Dragons players who want an overview of this stunning, magical world - or the perfect gift for a fan who wants to refresh their knowledge.
• Specially commissioned artwork that casts the Forgotten Realms in enticing detail, from deadly ogres' lairs to the finest tavern in Baldur's Gate.
• Topics include magical mishaps, weapons and gear, social survival, navigation, allies and companions, crime and punishment, location breakdowns, and how-to guides for fighting iconic monsters.

With this handy and humorous guide at your fingertips, your adventures throughout the Forgotten Realms will end in fame and fortune - rather than in something else's stomach...

(c) and (TM) 2024 Wizards of the Coast

A comprehensive book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource for winning the game!

• More than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words including many newly added entries.
• New vocabulary includes: facepalm, listicle, bitcoin, and emoji.
• Includes variant spellings with expanded coverage of Canadian and British words.
• Main entries include a brief definition, a part-of-speech label, and inflected forms for fast, easy word validation.
• Endorsed by the North American SCRABBLE Players Association for recreational and school use.

Love Playing Yahtzee?

So do we That's why we created these personal tally sheets so you can easily keep track of all your Yahtzee scores with friends and family Fun for adults and kids alike.

Features:

• Large 8.5 x 11 pages
• Yahtzee Guidelines with 6 Rounds
• Printed on beautiful white paper

Board game night doesn't have to consist of fighting over Monopoly for the millionth time--instead, discover a world of the best, most interesting board games released in the 21st century, with this one-stop guide to board games from around the world and across the spectrum.

Jarrod from Three Minute Board Games is an expert on explaining what makes games great. This book, organized by category, makes it easier than ever to find a board game that's perfect for any night you have planned. If you're looking for co-operative games that let you work together, turn to the Co-Op Games chapter; if you want storytelling games where the narrative reigns supreme, there's a chapter for that too.

Readers are sure to find their new favorite game in these pages. Even the pickiest player will love the recommendations that are listed alongside each game, helping them to find even more avenues of exploration for game night.

If you're new to board gaming as a hobby, this book will help you bust out of the game closet and into a world of contemporary, beautifully-designed games.

Rich with enticing origin stories, and a shining treatise on why games are so universal, so important, and so foundational to the human experience. This book beautifully explores their rich and textured legacy as everything from simple play to divine ritual. An exceptional read.
--Tom Brewster, Shut Up & Sit Down

The best book on games I've read in years.
--G.T. Karber, bestselling author of Murdle

Tabletop games are ordinary and extraordinary. Ordinary because they're everywhere: played in bars and cafés, churches and casinos, through sunless winters in polar research stations and in the sweltering summer heat of Tanzanian villages and streamed live over Twitch to millions of viewers. They fill the activity pages of children's magazines and the halls of senior centers. They appear as smartphone apps and in luxury editions and as game boards scratched into the dirt.

And they're extraordinary for precisely the same reason: they're everywhere, in every civilization, everywhere in the world across all recorded human history.

In Across the Board, tabletop game aficionado Tim Clare takes us through that history and across those civilizations. We learn how the same games emerge over and over and how they've evolved and spread, as well as about the contemporary culture of gaming: with rousing enthusiasm, Tim explores games as familiar to us as Monopoly or chess, as niche as Magic: The Gathering, and as unexpected as the Japanese poetry-matching card game karuta. We learn about games as recreation and as ritual, and above all, we see how they can be a way for us to come together--because of all the things that make us human, there's nothing quite so set up for connection as sharing a round of cards or the roll of a d20.

Told with fantastic wit and great love for the subject, Tim Clare's Across the Board is a book for all of us, from the tic-tac-toe players to the dungeon masters and back again.

Master fundamentals, learn traps to avoid, and develop your own competitive edge to consistently put your opponents in checkmate. Perfect for totally new players, casual players, ranked players, or anyone who wants to learn how to play chess!

Chess is an exciting and compelling game with a growing community of players of all skill levels.

Despite being nearly 1500 years old, Chess has never been more popular or accessible. And with good reason-chess is an exciting and strategic game that improves memory, concentration, focus, and patience while developing creativity and decision-making skills.

New players are often hooked after just a few games and credit the skills learned and perspective gained from chess as benefiting their personal and professional lives.

In Chess QuickStart Guide, internationally ranked competitive chess player, mentor, and chess coach Tyler Cruz makes learning how to play chess accessible for everyone.

From basic fundamentals to the same chess strategies used by grandmasters, this book contains everything a new player needs to understand the game, get playing, and put their opponents in checkmate.

Despite appearing complex at the outset, learning how to play chess is easier and less time consuming than you think. Whether you want to play as a hobby, start a competitive career, or just exercise your mind, truly anyone at any age can learn to play chess and put the tactics and strategies in this book to good use!

- Essential Chess Fundamentals - The Role Each Piece Plays, How It Behaves, And Its Strategic Purpose

- How To Win - The Best Opening Moves, Effective Counters, And Getting Into Your Opponent's Head

- Proven Chess Strategy - Mastering The Midgame, Dominating The Endgame, And Securing Checkmate

- Play Like A Pro - Learn How To Make Tactical Decisions And Implement Grandmaster-Tested Strategies

Look for QuickClips QR codes when reading this book. Scan to access exclusive videos directly from the author at key points to enhance your learning and go beyond the book!

Chess QuickStart Guide comes with lifetime access to FREE digital resources you can access from inside the book! Each of these bonuses is crafted with our expert author to help you level up your game and learn chess faster including:

- Comprehensive Game Tracker

- Opening Traps To Avoid Video Content

- Game Analysis Cheat Sheet and more!

A comprehensive book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource for winning the game!

• More than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words including many newly added entries.
• New vocabulary includes: facepalm, listicle, bitcoin, and emoji.
• Includes variant spellings with expanded coverage of Canadian and British words.
• Main entries include a brief definition, a part-of-speech label, and inflected forms for fast, easy word validation.
• Endorsed by the North American SCRABBLE Players Association for recreational and school use.

Readers will learn the building blocks of game design, including game components, rules, and gameplay mechanics, and then how to craft a game, with a variety of examples and design prompts. After completing Make Your Own Board Game, readers are equipped with a broad understanding of game construction and flow and ready to create games that are playable and satisfying, while also expressing the makers' unique creativity and passions.

Inside How to Play Cribbage, you'll discover everything you need to know to have fun with this fascinating game:

• Basic beginner strategies for quick success and more wins
• Tactics for making smart choices on the discard
• How to take the lead - and reply to your opponent's lead
• Tips for playing cribbage with 3 to 6 players

Originally invented in the 1600s, cribbage became very popular with sailors (especially in the mid-1900s). During World War II, American submarine crews on long voyages became avid cribbage players. Admiral Richard O'Kane was once dealt a perfect hand in a cribbage game - and his lucky cribbage board has been passed down by generations of submarine captains.

You can embrace the modern tradition of cribbage by learning the simple and compelling rules of the game. All you need to play is a friend (or a group of friends), a deck of cards, and a cribbage board (a board with 121 holes and pegs for each player).

With this easy-to-understand guidebook, you can quickly pick up the basics of the game, including pegging, counting, and quick counting. You'll learn about the perfect 29, how to win with 121 points, and how to skunk your opponents. You'll find out how to use the crib (the namesake of the game) to your advantage - both as the dealer and a non-dealer. This book even offers sneaky tactics for experienced players, such as using muggins to keep your opponents honest and earn more points!

When you read How to Play Cribbage, you'll discover a special bonus chapter which describes Captain's Cribbage, a variant of 3-person cribbage. In three successive rounds, players take turns teaming up together and acting alone as the captain. This blend of teamwork and competition creates a fun and challenging twist on this classic game!

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This is the first book to fully capture the story of the exotic and exciting game of Mahjong or Mah Jongg, offering an intimate look at the history of the game as well as the visual beauty of the tiles. When authors Ann Israel and Gregg Swain began playing Mahjong, they were unaware of the vintage collections that existed not only in the United States but also across the globe. Slowly, they started to collect their own sets of Mahjong and as their collections grew, so did their appreciation of the history of, and interest in, the game.

Finding few references, Israel and Swain set out to create a book that chronicles the early beginnings of the game and documents Mahjong sets from the most basic, made of paper, to the most precious materials such as ivory and mother-of-pearl. Recognized and respected scholars and game experts have collaborated with Israel and Swain, contributing essential chapters on the game's history and its pieces as well as technical information on the tiles. Lastly, prominent collectors from around the globe have shared their incredible sets and memories for the first time in one book for everyone to enjoy.

With hundreds of beautiful new images by renowned photographer Michel Arnaud, and including historical documentation and ephemera, Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game fills the void between the past's and today's game, providing vision, inspiration and resources. Anyone who has ever been intrigued by a Mahjong tile will find in these pages visually stunning photographs that will entice them into becoming an enthusiast of the timeless game of Mahjong.

Pull up a chair and see how the world's top game designers roll.

You want your games to be many things: Creative. Innovative. Playable. Fun. If you're a designer, add published to that list.

The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design gives you an insider's view on how to make a game that people will want to play again and again. Author Mike Selinker (Betrayal at House on the Hill) has invited some of the world's most talented and experienced game designers to share their secrets on game conception, design, development, and presentation.

In these pages, you'll learn about storyboarding, balancing, prototyping, and playtesting from the best in the business.

Games, Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity show in this lively and insightful book, are not just fun and games: they allow us to explore the complexities of the world, from evolution to war to climate. - STEVEN PINKER, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Kay and Moriarity are both skilled writers and elucidators, and their voices are distinct enough to provide the book with a pleasing yin and yang. It's a far more perceptive and intriguing book than it appears at first blush, particularly for those readers who have never thought of games as an artistic medium - at least not one that comments on society. - KIRKUS REVIEWS

Board games are among our most ancient and beloved art forms. During the rise of digital media, they fell from prominence for a decade or two but today they are in a new golden age. They're ingeniously designed, beautiful to look at, and exhilarating to play. Games are reclaiming their place in our culture, as entertainment, social activity, and intellectual workout equipment. Alone among all art forms, games require their audience (called players) to participate. If nobody's playing, there is no game. As a result, games can tell far more about us than our TV shows, movies or music ever could.

How does The Game of Life illustrate our changing attitudes about virtue? How does a World War II conflict simulation game explain the shortcomings of a failed novelist? Each chapter of Your Move examines one game, and what it reveals about our culture, history, society, and relationships. The book's two co-authors bring the perspectives of a writer who plays, and a player who writes. Before Jonathan Kay began his distinguished career as an author and commentator, he had a passion for games, and in recent years he has rediscovered them. Meanwhile, Joan Moriarity's career has been spent designing, developing, distributing, art directing, recommending and teaching board games and, recently, writing about them for a wider audience. With its short, punchy essays, and beautiful photographs of the games themselves, every chapter will be a worthwhile read in itself, and the book overall will leave you inspired to discover the truths of your own inner and outer world through play -- whether you're a seasoned veteran or a total newcomer.

A pesar de que sus reglas son simples, aprender el Go no es sencillo. Quien inicie el estudio de este antiguo y fascinante juego oriental encontrar en este libro una gu a segura y did ctica que le permitir completar el estadio de principiante de forma r pida y s lidamente fundada.

Kim Sung-rae es un jugador profesional de Go con gran experiencia y maestr a en la ense anza de este juego, lo que acredita en este libro utlizando explicaciones breves pero profusamente ilustradas con m s de mil diagramas, multitud de ejercicios y problemas sencillos que conducen suavemente al estudiante para que alcance su objetivo de disfrutar jugando al Go.

This complete, easy-to-follow instructional Mahjong handbook includes over 150 full-color photographs and illustrations to introduce players to this captivating game. This is the first Mahjong book to cover the Cantonese or old rules game fully. It also includes all of the most popular variations, such as the Shanghai game, the 16-tile or Taiwanese game, and the 12-tile game. Included are the rules, tactics, techniques, strategy and the rituals only the most experienced players know.

This Mahjong book includes:

• Easy-to-follow instructions
• Full-color illustrations and photographs
• Instruction on:
  1. Authentic Chinese Mahjong play
  2. Cantonese Mahjong play
  3. Shanghai Mahjong play
  4. American Mahjong play
  5. The 12-tile versions of the game

A comprehensive book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource for winning the game!

• More than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words including many newly added entries.
• New vocabulary includes: facepalm, listicle, bitcoin, and emoji.
• Includes variant spellings with expanded coverage of Canadian and British words.
• Main entries include a brief definition, a part-of-speech label, and inflected forms for fast, easy word validation.
• Endorsed by the North American SCRABBLE Players Association for recreational and school use.