Botermans, Jack

The World of games : their origins and history, how to play them, and how to make them by Tony Burrett( Book )

10 editions published between 1987 and 1989 in English and Dutch and held by 1,252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains more than 150 games from around the world, giving step-by-step instructions

Creative puzzles of the world by Pieter van Delft( Book )

66 editions published between 1977 and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 653 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Les jeux et les casse-tête de ce recueil vont des plus simples aux plus complexes. Cet ouvrage est le premier qui permette à l'amateur de fabriquer lui-même ses jeux : casse-tête en fil de fer, casse-tête à boule, ficelle et anneau, pièces du Tangram et autres jeux apparentés, labyrinthes, etc

The book of games : strategy, tactics & history by Jack Botermans( Book )

2 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 480 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This lavishly illustrated 736-page reference provides a lifetime of entertainment! It contains complete rules, playing tips, and instructive move-by-move examples of 65 fun and diverse games. They range from Senat, a pastime enjoyed by King Tut, to Hex, invented by a 20th-century mathematician; from strategy games and dice games to chase games; from Asian Shogi to African Wari; and, from traditional Chess and Go to modern creations like Mastermind and Othello. Colourful illustrations show old-time and modern players, game boards and equipment alongside fascinating anecdotes and curious facts about games throughout history

Puzzles old & new : how to make and solve them by Jerry Slocum( Book )

22 editions published between 1986 and 1999 in English and Japanese and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes solutions to the puzzles as well as a selected bibliography of mechanical puzzle books and reference books and articles

High-flying paper airplanes by Jack Botermans( Book )

1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 459 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains instructions for making twenty-five different small-scale paper airplane models

Paper flight : 48 models ready for take-off by Jack Botermans( Book )

12 editions published in 1984 in English and German and held by 453 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Easy to follow diagrams help create airplanes that resemble origami

Fantastic paper airplanes by Jack Botermans( Book )

2 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book presents instructions and diagrams for paper airplanes divided into categories of fantasy flyers, genuine reproductions, competition craft, and experimental models

Paper capers : an amazing array of games, puzzles, and tricks by Jack Botermans( Book )

1 edition published in 1986 in English and held by 347 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Tangram book : the story of the Chinese puzzle with over 2000 puzzles to solve by Jerry Slocum( Book )

7 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With its exquisite photographs and richly informative text, this is simply the best, the most unique, and the most in-depth study of the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game. This first truly comprehensive and beautiful volume on one of the world?s most popular and intriguing puzzles is an authoritative, lavishly photographed history of tangrams, and also a masterful introduction to puzzle solving, with more than 2,000 all-time tangrams. This accurate history of the classic Chinese art form comes from a tangram museum owner and his research team, who discovered many treasures, such as the tangram sets used by Chinese mathematicians 2,200 years ago to test Pythagorean theorems. Photos show how to arrange tangram-shaped antique dinner tables for a variety of themes such as mountain ranges and celebration costumes. Among the puzzles for you to solve: Paradoxical Pairs that appear to be identical but differ in a hard-to-detect detail

Tricky optical illusion puzzles by Jerry Slocum( Book )

3 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The longer you look, the more you get fooled. That's the fun of optical illusion puzzles. Coins rearrange themselves. Pictures disappear and reappear. Numbers add up to the same sum even when you remove some of them. Study a landscape and find 164 hidden objects. Stare into a 3-D picture until a ball is caught. See which knots won't really tie anything. Trace some mazes with only one right path, and one with over 600