Go – Bang & Reverse, Free Traditional Games for Christmas

Here are a couple of traditional games that you can download and play this Christmas for FREE!

 

GO-BANG.

This ancient but fascinating game is said to have been the favourite amusement of the late Lord Alverstone.

It is played by two players on the  board you can download below, each player having twelve counters. The players toss for first move and then each in turn places one of his counters on any unoccupied square. The object is to get five counters in a straight line, either vertically, laterally or diagonally. If players are inexperienced, one will probably succeed in doing this before twelve counters have been played and the game then comes to an abrupt end, but with practised players it is most unlikely that this will happen. Each will have placed twelve counters on the board without achieving his aim. The most interesting part of the game now begins. Each player in turn moves one of his counters to any adjacent unoccupied square and this goes on until someone has five in a row.

REVERSE

This can be played with the same pieces and board.The game is for two players, each of whom takes a colour. They toss for the first move; then each in turn takes a counter and places it, with his colour uppermost, on any unoccupied square.
The strategic squares are the corners, which will be the first occupied.
As soon as one or more of his adversary's counters are in line with a counter belonging to either player, he may, when it is his turn to play, place one of his counters at the other end of the line—if there is an unoccupied square there—and may then reverse (i.e., change to his own colours) all the counters which are situated between two of his own. The counters may be reversed and re-reversed indefinitely. Moreover, if the situation is favourable, a player operating from a particular square may reverse one or more counters in any number of directions, ft the end of the game (i.e. when the sixty-fourth square is occupied) the winner is, of course, the player whose counters are in the majority.

 

You can download the zipped up PDF file here, but it is a large so it might take a few minutes to download.

 

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Chess – Free Traditional Games for Christmas!

Do you remember what Christmas used to be like, playing games around the Christmas tree with the whole family?

Here for your pleasure and entertainment is a chess board and pieces. Ideal not only for chess but draughts and Fox & Geese

Chess is a board game played between two players. The current form of the game emerged in Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from a much older game of Indian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, on-line, by correspondence, and in tournaments.

Download your Virus Free PDF here. It is zipped up but it is still quite a big file, so be patient

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