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¿Question #245?
sumo: Favourite book about games?

Arboretum: I never read (or even consciously saw) one, sorry.
oldhoss: Don't know any.
bcooperok: Atlas Shrugged.
Herodian: Dream Park by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
pwilz: I like David Partlett's Oxford History of Board Games, even though he toots his own horn shamelessly with a short chapter about Hare & Tortise. I also like Sackson's A Gamut of Games.
ricardofo: Wargames Handbook, Third Edition: How to Play and Design Commercial and Professional Wargames by James Dunnigan
kJev: I enjoyed Patterns in Game Design
Felimid: The Book of Wargames (came out in 1980, I think).
purplewurple: The Luzhin Defense. Does that count?
CarnubaWax: Play It Again!
GrimJester: 100 Classics of the Chessboard
Mitch37: Last Call - Tim Powers
Gamegrunt: The Way to Play
Squigherder: Hoyle's rules
DHEK: Hmmm... I don't think I've ever read one...
Benzebub: Strangely, I don't have one.
Grym: None
Nimrod6: Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
POvidiusNaso: "The Top 101 Gaming Sluts: 2001 to 2004," by Chad Krizan, with special Introduction by Brett Myers.
Redbeardin84: Hoyle's
Beelzebub: Oxford History of Gaming
lambda: Playing with Pyramids.
scriptorum: Low Limit Hold Em by Lee Jones
wargamer66: Reassess your Chess by Jeremy Silman
Dubbelnisse: 3 by David Parlett: Penguin Encyclopedia of Card Games, The Oxford History of Board Games, The Oxford History of Card Games
ct_cruiser: Instruction booklets
brainrob: 'A Player Of Games' by Iain M Banks
Helenoftroy: go for beginners
Mark Smith: New Rules for Classic Games by R. Wayne Schmittberger.
bigbadsteve: the one marked rules
bekudno: Connection Games: Variations on a Theme, by Cameron Browne, is very good.
Famous Mortimer: Split Infinity.
Yollege: The book of Go
mats-k: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
e.c.r.: the master of go
jellospike: The ones I read were boring
sourwyrm: book of tells
tool: Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games. Second choice would be John Jackson aka Freeman's A Player's Guide to Table Games aka The Playboy Winner's Guide to Board Games.
CharlieWonka: Poker for Dummies
chrisesko: Murphy's Rules
thomcat: Dunnigan's "The Complete Wargames Handbook"
darthcliff: How to play mah jong.
AWildEep: none.
Otterdance: Player of Games.
heli: Knopf, Michael, Spielen. Kleine Philosophie der Passionen (for more info see http://spotlightongames.com/list/books.html )
The Unbeliever: 42
Lord_Prussian: Word Freak
skrutsch: A Gamut of Games
2amp: Complete Wargames Handbook (Dunnigan)
kennyb: only ones i have are "complete book of wargames" and "friday night poker"...neither rank as favorites
Mark_WH: Wargame Design -- SPI Staff
alfredhw: Board and Table Games of Many Civilizations
Karlsen: The Ian M Banks one
Redneon: Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
EndersGame: Non-fiction: "Hoyle's Rules of Games". Fiction: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
toulouse: WordFreak
UhhhClem: Clifford Geertz, _The Intepretation of Cultures_, which contains "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight."
djflippy: Rules of Play
BilboAtBagEnd: Currently a tie between A Gamut of Games and Parlett's wonderful card games book (the more portable one).
sos1: Heroic Worlds (hey, it mentions me in a positive light, how could I not like it?)
GuyHill: conways books about game theory
Blackwind: EndersGame
Bluenose: The Art of War: Sun Tzu
onky: no.
chaddyboy_2000: Haven't read any.
dakarp: Gamut of Games
netfilterz: Never read one I think...
BobDodgerBlue: Gamut of Games
PghArch: A Gamut of Games.
jaredh: I have several.
Linnaeus: I can't remember the name, but I read a really great introductory book on game theory once.
snoozefest: none
jttm: Are there such things?
kimbo: Sackson's A Gamut of Games.
Der Das: I really need to get me the classics.
Nomadik: According To Hoyle
Flyspeck23: Dungeons & Dragons for Dummies.
The Maverick: Shameless plug: The Space and Fantasy Gamer's Guide
Aldie: Dice Games Properly Explained
tragicpoet: Interstellar Pig
Friendless: Ender's Game
berserkley: A Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson
ensor: Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson
seppo21: The "glossary" that came in the SWCCG Special Edition Starter Decks.
EYE of NiGHT: R C Bell's Games In Ancient Civs or something like that.
shotokanguy: Chess Openings: Theory and Practice, by IA Horowitz.
CDRodeffer: Board And Table Games From Many Civilisations
Donkey Thong: Rules of Play - Eric Zimmerman and Katie Salen
skelebone: I'm reading a couple books on Go.
HBGlover: Come to think of it, I've never read a book about games. Huh.
Xlyce: Complete Book of Wargames
Mndwrm: The Big Book of Games, an introspective on Gamers and Gaming. Just kidding, can't think of one.
MisterCranky: Sorry, Sid...I still like US Playing Cards' Book of Card Games best.
Jatoha: A Gamut of Games
AnakinOU: Game Over Insert Coin To Continue. A GREAT history of Nintendo of Japan.
ValJor: Nunn's Chess Openings
CortexBomb: I don't read books about games
ynnen: Sid Sackson's Book of Games
fanaka66: Searching For Bobby Fischer
nix342: A Game of Thrones
mnvalente: dunno
Geosphere: The Way To Play
shumyum: Last Call by Tim Powers
Dante_Cubit: The one I am writing.
gnomehome: None
sumo: Oxford History of Card Games