Instructions, over 300 illustrations for creating boards and playing pieces for 39 games -- many over 5,000 years old. Directions for Pachisi, Alquerque, Solitaire, Queen's Guard, 35 others. Lexicon of game terminology, rules of gamesmanship, suggested strategies, list of tools and supplies, more.[...]
Forty-seven popular science experiments of the past, all of which can be performed with household materials, and dealing with such principles as air pressure, buoyancy, gravity, inertia, and sound.[...]